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At length, in 1830, Rauch began, along with the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the models for a colossal equestrian monument at Berlin to honor King Frederick II of Prussia ( Frederick the Great ).

This work was inaugurated with great pomp in May 1851, and is regarded as one of the masterpieces of modern sculpture, the crowning achievement of Rauch's work as a portrait and historic sculptor.

Princes decorated Rauch with honors and the academies of Europe enrolled him among their members.

A statue of Immanuel Kant for Königsberg and a statue of Albrecht Thaer for Berlin occupied his attention during some of his last years ; and he had just finished a model of Moses praying between Aaron and Hur when he was attacked by his last illness.