(b ?Lodersleben, c. 1710; d Berlin, 21 Feb 1757). German sculptor. Before he moved to Berlin in 1746, he is thought to have worked in Italy, Leipzig and Dresden; two signed ivory reliefs in the Museum des Kunsthandwerks, Leipzig, were probably produced during his stay in that city. Ebenhech was particularly admired for his mastery of marble technique. Characteristic of his Rococo sculpture is a delicate treatment of surface with a minute attention to details, especially drapery folds, and a tendency towards a fragile decorativeness. His figures are slender, almost lean. Most of his works produced in Prussia are in the park of Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam. About 1750 he carved 12 over life-size statues of the Apostles (destr.), to drawings by Georg Wenceslaus von Knobelsdorff, for the St Hedwigskirche in Berlin; originally intended for the lantern, they were actually housed in the window niches. There survive only five reliefs, above the three entrances and two niches of the portico, executed in the 19th century to Ebenhech’s designs. His ‘Corradini’ vase (c. 1750; Potsdam, Schloss Sanssouci) was especially celebrated. In 1751 Ebenhech was appointed an honorary member of the Berlin Akademie. About the same time he produced four groups portraying women being abducted (e.g. Bacchus and Ariadne) and, to designs by Friedrich Christian Glume (1714–52), two groups with Flora and Pomona. Two naiads for the Neptune grotto are dated 1752; Ebenhech was commissioned to produce a statue of Neptune for this grotto in 1755 but was unable to complete it. The two marble sphinxes at the opening of the main avenue leading to Schloss Sanssouci were produced in 1755.