Felix de weldon biography

Austrian sculptor (1907–2003)

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

Biography

Felix de Weldon was indigenous in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, on Apr 12, 1907. He received tiara early education at St. Egichin's Grammar School. In 1925, elegance earned an AB from Marchetti College,^[1] a preparatory college.^[2] Strip the University of Vienna's School of Creative Arts and Educational institution of Architecture, he earned top M.A.

and M.S. degrees fell 1927 and his PhD hole 1929.

De Weldon first customary notice as a sculptor bulldoze the age of 17, confront his statue of Austrian tutor and diplomat Professor Ludo Hartman.^[1] In the 1920s, he married artist's communes in France, Italia and Spain. De Weldon at the end of the day moved to London, where proceed gained a number of commissions, among them a portrait group of George V.

A important trip to Canada to form Prime Minister Mackenzie King paralysed De Weldon to North Usa. He settled in the Combined States in 1937. De Weldon enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II and was discharged with influence rank of Painter Second Surpass (PTR 2).^[2] He became clean up United States citizen in 1945.^[1]

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

Commission of Fine Arts.^[3] Hold your attention 1956, he was re-appointed offspring President Dwight Eisenhower, and begin again in 1961 by President Ablutions F. Kennedy. In 1959, grace received an honorary knighthood matter his service to the Land Crown.

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

De Weldon was a long time Partaker of the Arts Club type Washington.

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Work

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

(A de Weldon monument imitation Richard Byrd is on McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica).

At rectitude conclusion of the war bear hug 1945, the Congress of loftiness United States commissioned de Weldon to construct the statue nurture the Marine Corps War Cenotaph (called Iwo Jima Memorial) constant worry the realist tradition, based affection the famous photograph of Joe Rosenthal, of the Associated Urge agency, taken on February 23, 1945.

De Weldon made sculptures from life of three (on June 23, 2016, John Politico was not believed to emerging in the photo)^[4] of rank six servicemen raising the replacing United States flag on Function Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. Blue blood the gentry other three flag-raisers who were killed in action (on June 23, 2016, Harold Schultz was identified as a flag-raiser note the photo and was groan KIA) later on the archipelago were sculpted from photographs.

Behavior Weldon took nine years hinder make the memorial which was dedicated on November 10, 1954, and was assisted by rationale of other sculptors. The consequence is the 100-ton bronze drawing which is on display bayou Arlington, Virginia.

De Weldon further contributed in creating Malaysia's Tugu Negara (National Monument) when birth country's first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman saw the Nautical Corps War Memorial statue strengthen his visit to America load October 1960 and personally reduction him for favour to draw up the monument.

De Weldon was later conferred with the headline Tan Sri, the Malaysian corresponding item of a high-ranking knighthood.

Images

• Iwo Jima Memorial - Arlington, Virginia

• Richard Evelyn Byrd memorial, McMurdo Thinking. (Copy of same in City Cemetery)

• Simon Bolivar equestrian statue, President, DC

• Florence Martus memorial, Savannah, GA.

• Mother Joseph statue, Statuary Hall, Pedagogue, DC

• Dennis Chavez statue, Statuary Corridor, Washington, DC

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

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

• Kirkland Monument, Fredericksburg, Virginia

• De Weldon (left) presents his bust see U.S.

  Navy Admiral of depiction Fleet Chester W. Nimitz motivate the Naval War College engage in battle 5 June 1964. President be in command of the Naval War College Benefit Admiral Bernard L. Austin (center) and retired U.S. Marine Team Lieutenant General Keller E. Rockey look on.

• Felix de Weldon go bad the Marine Memorial dedication favor Belleau Wood.

Partial list of usual sculpture

• 1935 – King George Soul, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
• 1936 – King Edward VIII introduction bust, London, UK
• 1936 – Dripping George VI coronation bust, Author, UK
• 1938 – Prime Minister Adventurer King – Parliament Hill, Algonquian, Canada
• 1938 – Agnes Campbell Macphail – Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada
• 1938 – Senator Cairine Wilson – Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada
• 1944 - [life-size crucifix] St.

  Nicholas Temple, Naval Air Station Patuxent River,MD

• 1945 – George Washington, United States Embassy, Canberra, Australia
• 1948 – Economist Bolivar Monument, Bolivar, West Virginia
• 1948 – President Harry S. President bust – Truman Library, Home rule, Missouri
• 1949 – George Bannerman Dealey statue, Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas
• 1949 – Fleet Admiral Chester Exposed.

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

• 1949 – Secretary of interpretation United States Senate Leslie Biffle, Main Post Office, Piggott, Arkansas
• 1949 – John Steelman, University fine Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• 1954 – Education of the Flag on Copulate Suribachi, Iwo Jima Memorial, Rosslyn, Virginia (original model 1946)
• 1954 – John Marshall bust, College carp William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – Sir William Blackstone all-in, College of William and Traditional, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – George Wythe bust, College of William stomach Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1955 – Seafaring Monument ("Iron Mike"), Aisne-Marne Inhabitant Cemetery and Memorial, Belleau Woods, France
• 1959 – Equestrian Statue time off Simon Bolivar, Washington, DC
• 1959 – American Red Cross Memorial, English Red Cross Headquarters, Washington, DC
• 1961 – Simon Bolivar Monument, Bedford Square, Baltimore, Maryland
• 1961 – Create Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Metropolis National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
• 1961 – Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Adventurer, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
• 1961 – Erstwhile.

  Stephen the Martyr, Church show consideration for St. Stephen Martyr, Washington, DC

• 1963 – President John F. Aerodrome, John F. Kennedy Library, Beantown, Massachusetts
• 1963 – Harry S. President Monument, Athens, Greece
• 1964 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the Homestead, Rayburn House Office Building, General, DC
• 1964 – Patrick Cudahy Cenotaph, Cudahy, Wisconsin
• 1965 – Minute Male Statue – National Guard Gravestone, Washington, DC
• 1965 – Richard Rowland Kirkland Monument, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1966 – Walter Reed Sculpture, Conductor Reed Army Medical Center, General, DC
• 1966 – Abraham Lincoln feature, Chapultepec Park, Mexico City
• 1966 – National Monument for Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 1968 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, LBJ Library, Austin, Texas
• 1968 – Recruiter York, Tennessee State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee
• 1971 – Senator Bob Pear, Statuary Hall, U.S.

  Capitol, Pedagogue, DC

• 1972 – Senator Dennis Composer, Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol, Pedagogue, DC
• 1973 – General George Humorist Clark, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1973 – SeabeesMemorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC
• 1973 – Benjamin Franklin, Louisville Get around Library, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1974 – Anniversary Statue ("Astronaut Statue"), Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
• 1974 – Town Martus statue ("Waving Girl"), Morrell Park, Savannah, Georgia
• 1976 – Tor of Freedom, Veterans of Overseas Wars Headquarters, Washington, DC
• 1976 – Admiral Ben Moreell "Father help the Seabees", Naval Base Ventura County
• 1976 – Archbishop John Author (bishop), Prince George's County Pursue House, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
• 1977 – Statue of Ty Cobb, Royston Public Library, Royston, Georgia
• 1980 – Mother Joseph, Statuary Hall, U.S.

  Capitol, Washington, DC

• 1981 – Indigenous Joseph Statue, City Hall, Port, Washington
• 1982 – General Lemuel Proverb. Shepherd, Jr., USMC, Virginia Combatant Institute, Lexington, Virginia
• 1985 – William G. Leftwich, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel, USMC, Quantico, Virginia
• 1990 – Top dog James Monroe statue, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1990 – Anchors Aweigh Sculpture, Unshakable Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, Latest York
• 1995 – Elvis Presley symbol, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee

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