Artist, Sculptor. He will be best remembered for his most notable work, "The Bowls Player" (1857), a bronze statue which is a modern adaptation of classical sculptures of athletes such as Greek sculptor Polykleitos's Doryphoros and Athenian Sculptor Myron of Eleutherae's Discobolus. The plaster model for the work and the first casting from it were lost in the fire which destroyed the Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen in 1884. The other bronze casts that survive are at the NY Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark, the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany. He was born one of eight children as Georg Christian Freund in Altona, Germany, to Johann Friedrich August Freund (1785-1857), and his wife Hanne Magdalena Kreiner Freund (1793-1878). He was born in Altona, Germany, and studied sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark, under his uncle the German-born Danish sculptor Hermann Ernst Freund (1786-1840), and Danish sculptor Herman Wilhelm Bissen (1798-1868). He worked independently beginning in 1840, and The Ragnarok Frieze which is on display at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark. He then worked and lived in Rome, Italy, from 1864 to 1865, and was made a Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1869. He was made a professor in 1898. He also received several medals and prizes during his career including being made a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, a Danish order of chivalry, in 1898. His many works of art that he created in marble, plaster, and bronze, are on display in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany, while others are in public buildings that they commissioned or in private collections. Besides, his, "The Bowls Player" (1857), his many other works include, "The Last Supper," and "The Baptism Of Christ In The Jordan," are on display at the St. Nicholai Kirche in Uthlede, Germany. He was married to Agnes Georgiana Dewhorst Freund (1818-1877), in Copenhagen, Denmark, on August 20, 1861, with whom he had two children, Arthur and Thyra. He passed away in Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 4, 1900, at the age of 79, and he was buried in Garnisons Kirkegård in Copenhagen, Denmark, where several other famous Danish personalities are also laid to rest.