Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler

Ludwig Schwanthaler, from Two Hundred German Men in Portraits and Biographies (1854)
Athena wearing the mask of Medusa, Ludwig von Schwanthaler 1840, Albertinum, Dresden

Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, later ennobled as Ritter von Schwanthaler (26 August 1802 – 14 November 1848), was a German sculptor who taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.