By his 26th birthday Peter Pöppelmann was employed as a full time technician in the studio of Bernhard Kurt Roch, a master sculptor in Dresden.

There Pöppelmann was able to exercise his artistic talents fully under the guidance of the master.

In1897 Peter Pöppelmann received the gold medal from the Dresden Academy exhibition and in 1900 he joined the Dresden Art Academy.

  His achievements and talent flourished and by 1906 Peter Pöppelmann became an extraordinary member of the Berlin Secession and in 1907, he was made an honorary member of the Dresden Academy of Arts.

At the age of 81 years, he died in Dresden on the 6th of November 1947.

  Works by Peter Pöppelmann are held in the State Art Collection in Dresden, also in museums in Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Munster and Oldenburg.
Pöppelmann created figures , statues and decorations for the city hall and the Church of Christ in Dresden and for the Jakobikirche in Freiberg / Saxony.
In his native city of Harsewinkel, his most celebrated sculpture The Bathers has been held since 2001.

Pöppelmann worked in a variety of materials including bronzes and is remembered for his fine and modestly composded figues of nude figures such as the bronze illustrated which was unearthed at the Saskatoon roadshow in September 2008..