Edmond Romulus Amateis

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Edmond Romulus Amateis (born February 27, 1897 in Rome , † May 1, 1981 in Clermont , Florida ) was an American sculptor and teacher. He is known for garden sculptures, architectural colossal sculptures and portrait busts.

biography

Amateis was the son of Louis (Luigi) Amateis, who immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1883, became the founder of the architecture department at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and was a well-known sculptor himself. Edmond Amateis received his schooling in Washington and studied from 1915 at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City . He interrupted his studies during World War I to serve in the army, which also took him to Europe. During his stay in Europe he spent four months in Paris at the Académie Julian with François Boucher and Paul Landowski as his teachers. After returning to the USA, he resumed his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute, combined with practical work in the studios of Henry Shrady and John Clements Gregory (1979–1958). In 1921 Amateis received a three-year scholarship to the American Academy in Rome .

The artist has lived in Clermont, Florida since the 1950s at the latest. He was married and, in addition to sculpting, also grew flowers. A white rhododendron species is named after him or his wife.

Pediment of the Buffalo Historical Society Building

Significant works

After his return to the USA he received orders for numerous important sculptures on public buildings, so

  • two floating fighting horses for the War Memorial in Baltimore
  • a pediment and twelve metopes for the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Building in Buffalo
  • a colossal relief for the Rochester Times-Union building in Rochester (New York)
  • the large frieze on the north wall of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City from 1933,
  • a pair of birds of prey in front of the Acacia Life Insurance Company buildings in Washington, DC
  • a relief and gusset arches for the Department of Labor and Interstate Commerce building in Washington, DC
Bronze busts in the Polio Hall of Fame

1956 was commissioned the bronze busts of 15 polio researchers and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisor Basil O'Connor for the Polio Hall of Fame in Warm Springs (Georgia) to create, inaugurated 1958th

He also created a relief for the Kerckhoff Mausoleum in Los Angeles, and a monument to William M. Davidson in Pittsburgh. In addition, Amateis created numerous fountain and garden figures and just as many larger and smaller bronze busts.

Awards

In 1929 Amateis won the Avery Prize with Summer , awarded by the Architectural League and in 1933 the McLees Prize at the Pennsylvania Academy. In 1942 he was elected a full member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design . In 1952 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Web links

Commons : Edmond Amateis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Artist , December 1940, p. 8th
  2. ↑ The Quarterly Bulletin of the American Rhododendron Society, April 15, 1961, Vol. 15 No. 2, also online here
  3. ↑ Figure here
  4. ↑ detailed description and a picture in this dissertation
  5. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "A" / Amateis, Edmond Romulus NA 1942 ( Memento of November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 13, 2015)
  6. ↑ Members: Edmond Amateis. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Amateis, Edmond Romulus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1981
Place of death Clermont , Florida