Leopold Hafner, a German sculptor, began his apprenticeship with Ludwig Pinsker and completed his education in woodcarving from the State Technical School for Woodcarving in Zwiesel in 1951. He went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he graduated in 1959. Hafner worked as a freelance artist from 1959 and decorated various church interiors. He won a nationwide competition to redesign a bust of naturalist Gregor Mendel for the Walhalla and was commissioned to design it. He also designed and donated the 2003 Art Prize for German-Czech Understanding.
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