Moses Jacob Ezekiel

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Thomas Jefferson Memorial, University of Virginia , 1910

Moses Jacob Ezekiel (born October 28, 1844 in Richmond , Virginia , † March 27, 1917 in Rome ) was an American sculptor of the Jewish faith. Ezekiel went into the military college Virginia Military Institute and fought then as an officer of the Confederate in the Civil War with. After the war he decided to become a sculptor. In 1869 he went to Europe , and became a student of the Academy of Mahler, Sculpture and Architecture in Berlin . In 1871 he entered the studio of Albert Wolff one. There he received the Rome Prize of the Michael Beer Foundation in 1873 and was able to train in Italy for two years as a result .

Ezekiel's remains were interred in the base of the Confederate Memorial he designed and unveiled in Arlington National Cemetery in 1914 .

literature

  • Joseph Gutmann, Stanley F. Chyet: Moses Jacob Ezekiel: Memoirs from the Baths of Diocletian. ISBN 0-8143-1525-9 (English)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Confederate Memorial