Albert Jaegers

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Albert Jaegers

Albert Jaegers (born March 28, 1868 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † July 22, 1925 in Suffern ) was an American sculptor.

Life

Jaegers moved to Cincinnati with his family in 1882 as a boy . He trained as a wood carver with his father, then studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and later in London , Paris and Rome .

In 1890 he married Matilda Holdt and began his career as a sculptor. He has won awards funded by the National Sculpture Society.

He exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition (1901) and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904). For the latter, he was commissioned to make the statue representing Arkansas .

"Military Instruction": Section of the Steuben Memorial , Lafayette Park, in President's Park , Washington DC

In 1906 he won the competition for the Steuben Memorial in Washington on the basis that Augustus Saint-Gaudens approved his work at an early stage of the competition. His bronze sculptures included an eleven foot tall figure of the military leader on a granite plinth nearly 20 feet high. Next to the base are two groups. In one, called "Commemoration", a seated woman, naked above the waist, depicts America. A small child kneels on her feet and holds up a scroll. In the other, called "Military Instruction", a sitting, naked soldier with an elaborately designed helmet, "in the prime of life", holds an empty sword scabbard in one hand. With his other hand, as if giving instructions, he points to his drawn sword, which is held by a naked young man next to it.

When the American government selected sculptors to create figures for the US Custom House in New York , each of which would represent a historic maritime power, Jaegers won the competition for the German, which he called “an armed female figure based on an ancient one Shield, designed with the inscription 'Kiel'. Following the American declaration of war on Germany, then Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo asked him to change the character to represent Belgium, an ally in World War I. Jaegers refused to change the character, but it was changed despite his objections. He said that his work could not be seriously changed by "a bit of camouflage with a renaming" and called the name change "a somewhat dubious honor for the brave little Belgium".

His figures of historical German-American personalities were sometimes targeted when the United States and the German Empire were at war with one another. The dedication of his statue to Anthony Steins met with protest and threats of violence. The dedication of his statue of Franz Daniel Pastorius , the founder of Germantown , Pennsylvania , was delayed until after the end of World War I, and it was removed during World War II.

In 1918 he worked with a small sculpture called "The Grenade Thrower" in an exhibition of patriotic and war-related pieces.

Jaegers was a member of the National Sculpture Society and the National Institute of Arts and Letters . He was the brother of the well-known sculptor Augustine Jaegers (* 1878 † 1952).

He lived in Washington Square Park in New York .

He died on July 22, 1925 in Suffern and was buried there in the Airmont cemetery.

Works (excerpt)

literature

  • Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt: Artists in Ohio, 1787–1900. A Biographical Dictionary. 2000, p. 451.

Web links

Commons : Albert Jaegers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f New York Times : “Albert Jaeger, Sculptor, Dies”, July 23, 1925 , accessed June 22, 2012
  2. ↑ New York Times : "Statues for St. Louis", February 17, 1903 , accessed 22 June 2012
  3. ^ New York Times : Steuben Honored by Nation he Helped to Create, November 27, 1910 , accessed June 22, 2012
  4. ^ New York Times : "World's Greatest Custom House Will Soon be Completed," January 14, 1906 , accessed June 22, 2012.
  5. ^ New York Times : Grace Glueck, "The Fountainhead and Father of the Woolworth Building," December 29, 2000 , accessed June 22, 2012
  6. ↑ SIRIS: "Belgium, (sculpture)" .
  7. ↑ SIRIS: "Monsignor Anthony Stein, (sculpture)" .
  8. ^ Hans A. Pohlsander, German Monuments in the Americas: Bonds Across the Atlantic. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. a. 2010, p. 6, available on the Internet , accessed on June 22, 2012
  9. ↑ New York Times : "November Exhibitions in Great Variety", November 17, 1918 , accessed 22 June 2012
  10. ↑ Goethe-Institut : "Albert Jaegers, Sculptor" , accessed on August 8, 2014
  11. ^ Fourteen Story Apartment Building for Artists, New York Times, April 2, 1916. In: The New York Times. Retrieved July 30, 2014 .
  12. ^ Albert Jaegers in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 8, 2015.
  13. ^ "Catalog of Sculpture," Columbia University Quarterly , Description 510, Image 511, available on the Internet , accessed June 22, 2012
  14. ↑ Ben Macomber: The Jewel City: its Planning and Achievement ... (San Francisco: John H. Williams, 1915), 76, 196, available on the Internet , accessed June 22, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Jaegers, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1925
Place of death Suffern