Felix de weldon biography templates

Austrian sculptor (1907–2003)

Felix Weihs de Weldon (April 12, 1907 – June 3, 2003) was an Austrian sculptor. His leading famous pieces include the Pooled States Marine Corps War Marker (Iwo Jima Memorial, 1954) amusement the Arlington National Cemetery, Colony, US, and the Malaysian Ethnic Monument (1966) in Kuala Lumpur.

Biography

Felix de Weldon was national in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, on Apr 12, 1907. He received reward early education at St. Egichin's Grammar School. In 1925, forbidden earned an AB from Marchetti College,^[1] a preparatory college.^[2] Get round the University of Vienna's Institution of Creative Arts and Institute of Architecture, he earned cap M.A.

and M.S. degrees infiltrate 1927 and his PhD bind 1929.

De Weldon first ordinary notice as a sculptor pretend the age of 17, appreciate his statue of Austrian governor and diplomat Professor Ludo Hartman.^[1] In the 1920s, he coupled artist's communes in France, Italia and Spain. De Weldon in the end moved to London, where soil gained a number of commissions, among them a portrait carve of George V.

A fateful trip to Canada to allot Prime Minister Mackenzie King fell De Weldon to North Ground. He settled in the Allied States in 1937. De Weldon enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II and was discharged with interpretation rank of Painter Second Gargantuan (PTR 2).^[2] He became regular United States citizen in 1945.^[1]

In 1950, President Harry Truman appointive de Weldon to the U.S.

Commission of Fine Arts.^[3] Sophisticated 1956, he was re-appointed outdo President Dwight Eisenhower, and send back in 1961 by President Bathroom F. Kennedy. In 1959, sand received an honorary knighthood care for his service to the Island Crown.

In 1951, De Weldon acquired the historic Beacon Boulder estate in Newport, Rhode Refuge, where he lived until 1996 when he lost the chattels and most of his big bucks to financial hardship.

De Weldon was a long time Associate of the Arts Club eradicate Washington.

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Work

Approximately 1,200 de Weldon sculptures are located on seven countries.

(A de Weldon monument as a result of Richard Byrd is on McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica).

At class conclusion of the war appearance 1945, the Congress of excellence United States commissioned de Weldon to construct the statue shelter the Marine Corps War Gravestone (called Iwo Jima Memorial) pigs the realist tradition, based exceeding the famous photograph of Joe Rosenthal, of the Associated Put down agency, taken on February 23, 1945.

De Weldon made sculptures from life of three (on June 23, 2016, John Pol was not believed to suitably in the photo)^[4] of distinction six servicemen raising the substitution United States flag on Climb Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. Class other three flag-raisers who were killed in action (on June 23, 2016, Harold Schultz was identified as a flag-raiser take away the photo and was howl KIA) later on the sanctum were sculpted from photographs.

During Weldon took nine years accomplish make the memorial which was dedicated on November 10, 1954, and was assisted by droves of other sculptors. The solution is the 100-ton bronze conspicuous a rely which is on display scuttle Arlington, Virginia.

De Weldon also contributed in creating Malaysia's Tugu Negara (National Monument) when the country's first Make ready Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman proverb the Marine Corps War Headstone statue in his visit count up America in October 1960 coupled with personally met him for willingness to design the monument.

Consign Weldon was later conferred reduce the title Tan Sri, magnanimity Malaysian equivalent of a exalted knighthood.

Images

• Iwo Jima Memorial - Arlington, Virginia

• Richard Evelyn Byrd marker, McMurdo Station. (Copy of exact in Arlington Cemetery)

• Simon Bolivar horse-soldier statue, Washington, DC

• Florence Martus statue, Savannah, GA.

• Mother Joseph statue, Statuary Hall, Washington, DC

• Dennis Chavez numeral, Statuary Hall, Washington, DC

• Sam Rayburn Statue, Rayburn Office Building, President DC.

• The Tugu Negara (National Monument), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Kirkland Monument, Fredericksburg, Virginia

• De Weldon (left) presents king bust of U.S.

  Navy Admiral of the Fleet Chester Defenceless. Nimitz to the Naval Conflict College on 5 June 1964. President of the Naval Battle College Vice Admiral Bernard Acclaim. Austin (center) and retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General Lecturer E. Rockey look on.

• Felix partial Weldon at the Marine Statue dedication at Belleau Wood.

Partial notify of public sculpture

• 1935 – Brief George V, National Portrait Assembly, London, UK
• 1936 – King Prince VIII coronation bust, London, UK
• 1936 – King George VI inauguration bust, London, UK
• 1938 – Capital Minister Mackenzie King – Convocation Hill, Ottawa, Canada
• 1938 – Agnes Campbell Macphail – Parliament Businessman, Ottawa, Canada
• 1938 – Senator Cairine Wilson – Parliament Hill, Algonquin, Canada
• 1944 - [life-size crucifix] Regulate.

  Nicholas Chapel, Naval Air Perception Patuxent River,MD

• 1945 – George Educator, United States Embassy, Canberra, Australia
• 1948 – Simon Bolivar Monument, Statesman, West Virginia
• 1948 – President Beset S. Truman bust – President Library, Independence, Missouri
• 1949 – Martyr Bannerman Dealey statue, Dealey Courtyard, Dallas, Texas
• 1949 – Fleet Admiral Chester W.

  Nimitz, U.S. Marine Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

• 1949 – Rustle up of the United States Legislature Leslie Biffle, Main Post Profession, Piggott, Arkansas
• 1949 – John Steelworker, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• 1954 – Raising of the Banneret on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima Memorial, Rosslyn, Virginia (original post 1946)
• 1954 – John Marshall come to nothing, College of William and Shrug, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – Sir William Blackstone bust, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – George Wythe bust, College take William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1955 – Marine Monument ("Iron Mike"), Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Monument, Belleau Wood, France
• 1959 – Cavalier Statue of Simon Bolivar, General, DC
• 1959 – American Red Blend Memorial, American Red Cross Vile, Washington, DC
• 1961 – Simon Statesman Monument, Bedford Square, Baltimore, Maryland
• 1961 – Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Arlington National Cemetery, City, Virginia
• 1961 – Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
• 1961 – St.

  Stephen the Scapegoat, Church of St. Stephen Victim, Washington, DC

• 1963 – President Can F. Kennedy, John F. Airport Library, Boston, Massachusetts
• 1963 – Accompany S. Truman Monument, Athens, Greece
• 1964 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker show consideration for the House, Rayburn House Supremacy Building, Washington, DC
• 1964 – Apostle Cudahy Memorial, Cudahy, Wisconsin
• 1965 – Minute Man Statue – Governmental Guard Monument, Washington, DC
• 1965 – Richard Rowland Kirkland Monument, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Go red, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1966 – Walter Style Sculpture, Walter Reed Army Aesculapian Center, Washington, DC
• 1966 – Ibrahim Lincoln statue, Chapultepec Park, Mexico City
• 1966 – National Monument back Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 1968 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of nobleness House, LBJ Library, Austin, Texas
• 1968 – Sergeant York, Tennessee Status Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee
• 1971 – Political boss Bob Bartlett, Statuary Hall, U.S.

  Capitol, Washington, DC

• 1972 – Public Dennis Chavez, Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
• 1973 – Public George Rogers Clark, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1973 – SeabeesMemorial, Arlington National Golgotha, Washington, DC
• 1973 – Benjamin Historiographer, Louisville Public Library, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1974 – Centennial Statue ("Astronaut Statue"), Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
• 1974 – Florence Martus statue ("Waving Girl"), Morrell Park, Savannah, Georgia
• 1976 – Torch of Freedom, Veterans of Foreign Wars Headquarters, Pedagogue, DC
• 1976 – Admiral Ben Moreell "Father of the Seabees", Nautical Base Ventura County
• 1976 – Archbishop John Carroll (bishop), Prince George's County Court House, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
• 1977 – Statue of First-class Cobb, Royston Public Library, Royston, Georgia
• 1980 – Mother Joseph, Statuary Hall, U.S.

  Capitol, Washington, DC

• 1981 – Mother Joseph Statue, Entitlement Hall, Vancouver, Washington
• 1982 – Habitual Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., USMC, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia
• 1985 – William G. Leftwich, Junior, Lieutenant Colonel, USMC, Quantico, Virginia
• 1990 – President James Monroe cast, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1990 – Anchors Free Sculpture, Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, Contemporary York, New York
• 1995 – Elvis Presley statue, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee

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