Leopold Fettweis

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Leopold Fettweis , also Fettweiss (* 1848 (probably) in Cincinnati , USA ; † 1912 , ibid) was a well-known German-American sculptor .

family

He was the oldest of seven children of the sculptor and stonemason Karl L. Fettweis (1826 to before 1890) and Anna M. (1827 to after 1890), who had immigrated from Germany . His brothers Charles, Hugo and Otto Fettweis were also artists.

Fettweis married the German Charlotte Becker on February 25, 1886 in Cincinnati.

Life

From a young age, Fettweis worked at his father's business on West McMicken Street near Vine Street in Cincinnati. In 1875 he went on a study trip to Rome . In 1879 two of his works were exhibited at the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. Since 1894 he was a member of the Cincinnati Art Club.

Fettweis created u. a. the sculpture of Germania (1877, Walnut Street, corner of 12th Street in Cincinnati) on the Germania Building by Heinrich Rattermann , the busts of Col. Robert L. McCook (1878, Washington Park in Cincinnati), Friedrich Hecker (1883, Washington Park) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1911, Inwood Park in the historic Mount Auburn Cemetery near Cambridge (Massachusetts) ).

literature

  • Artists in Ohio. 1787-1900. A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Mary Sayre Haverstock et al. Kent 1999. p. 288.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Image of the Germania sculpture
  2. ^ Image of the McCook bust
  3. ↑ Picture of the Hecker bust
personal data
SURNAME Fettweis, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fettweiss, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati
DATE OF DEATH 1912
Place of death Cincinnati