(b Ilserburg, 18 Sept 1861; d Berlin, Oct 1938). German sculptor. He went to Hannover (1878/9) to study with Carl Dopmeyer (1824–99). Between 1880 and 1883 he studied at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, with Fritz Schaper, where he came to revere the work of Reinhold Begas, whose subject-matter and formal canon he initially adopted. Working as an independent sculptor in Berlin from 1885, his first commission was for a bust of Prince William. In 1888 Emperor William II commissioned him to decorate the Neues Palais in Potsdam (1889–94); the programme involved 6 larger than life-size groups, 6 individual figures, 12 trophies, 18 groups of children and c. 20 vases. Further imperial commissions included the group Albrecht the Bear for the Siegesallee, Berlin, and the commission for the War Memorial in St Privat. From 1894 to 1905 he worked on the statues of Moderation and Courage in St Hedwig’s Cathedral, Berlin, and following the death of Nicolaus Geiger (1849–97) he took over the commission for eight angels for the cathedral dome. Schott’s major work, and the one in which he first achieved independence from Begas’s influence, is the Woman Playing with a Ball (1898; Berlin, Alte N.G.). This was followed by several portrait busts and subjects drawn from Classical mythology, including Diana with the Hounds of the Wind (1926; Berlin, Humboldthain), a theme that had preoccupied him since 1900. In 1910, at the Exposition Universelle et Internationale in Brussels, Schott showed his design for a fountain, Three Girls Dancing, for which he was later commissioned by Mäzen Rudolf Mosse. In 1914 the outbreak of World War I prevented the execution of the statue of the Emperor for the conference room at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.