Constantin Karl Starck (b Riga, 2 March 1866; d Berlin, 11 Sept 1939). German sculptor. He grew up in a Baltic pastor's household, which enabled him to gain a classical education through attending a grammar school and visiting Italy. His first artistic training was at the Kunstschule in Stuttgart in 1885. His teacher, Adolf Donndorf, worked in the tradition of the Berlin Rauch school. In 1887 Starck went to Berlin, to study at the Akademische Hochschule f?r die Bildenden K?nste until 1891. His teachers there also worked in the Rauch tradition. From 1891 to 1898 Starck was a pupil of Reinhold Begas, at the K?nigliche Akademie der K?nste. Begas was a representative of the neo-Baroque and Starck's first significant work, Dreaming (1897/8; a bronze version, Berlin, Alte N.G.), closely followed neo-Baroque idiom. His work The Spring (1904; Berlin, Alte N.G.) was awarded a Gold Medal.