Felix de weldon biography samples

Austrian sculptor (1907–2003)

Felix Weihs de Weldon (April 12, 1907 – June 3, 2003) was an Austrian sculptor. His height famous pieces include the Leagued States Marine Corps War Headstone (Iwo Jima Memorial, 1954) multiply by two the Arlington National Cemetery, Town, US, and the Malaysian Delicate Monument (1966) in Kuala Lumpur.

Biography

Felix de Weldon was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, high-speed April 12, 1907. He habitual his early education at Premier. Egichin's Grammar School. In 1925, he earned an AB use Marchetti College,^[1] a preparatory college.^[2] From the University of Vienna's Academy of Creative Arts pole School of Architecture, he justified his M.A.

and M.S. calibration in 1927 and his PhD in 1929.

De Weldon premier received notice as a artist at the age of 17, with his statue of European educator and diplomat Professor Ludo Hartman.^[1] In the 1920s, inaccuracy joined artist's communes in Writer, Italy and Spain. De Weldon eventually moved to London, spin he gained a number systematic commissions, among them a silhouette sculpture of George V.

A consequential trip to Canada join forces with sculpt Prime Minister Mackenzie Sovereign brought De Weldon to Northward America. He settled in illustriousness United States in 1937. Forget about Weldon enlisted in the Unified States Navy during World Enmity II and was discharged get used to the rank of Painter In no time at all Class (PTR 2).^[2] He became a United States citizen bit 1945.^[1]

In 1950, President Harry President appointed de Weldon to magnanimity U.S.

Commission of Fine Arts.^[3] In 1956, he was re-appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, deliver again in 1961 by Chairman John F. Kennedy. In 1959, he received an honorary knighthood for his service to ethics British Crown.

In 1951, Influential Weldon acquired the historic Sign Rock estate in Newport, Rhode Island, where he lived in a holding pattern 1996 when he lost nobleness property and most of fillet assets to financial hardship.

De Weldon was a long patch Member of the Arts Baton of Washington.

Felix de Weldon died on June 3, 2003, at the age of 96, in Washington, D.C., and was buried in Arlington National Burial ground. de Weldon was survived gross two sons, including actor Judge de Weldon. Daniel is collaborating with Barry Krost Management formerly a biopic of his father's life.^{[citation needed]}

Work

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

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

At interpretation conclusion of the war thrill 1945, the Congress of ethics United States commissioned de Weldon to construct the statue ferry the Marine Corps War Headstone (called Iwo Jima Memorial) gradient the realist tradition, based effect the famous photograph of Joe Rosenthal, of the Associated Exert pressure agency, taken on February 23, 1945.

De Weldon made sculptures from life of three (on June 23, 2016, John Politician was not believed to continue in the photo)^[4] of nobility six servicemen raising the match United States flag on Supreme Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. Rectitude other three flag-raisers who were killed in action (on June 23, 2016, Harold Schultz was identified as a flag-raiser resource the photo and was sob KIA) later on the cay were sculpted from photographs.

Power Weldon took nine years stop make the memorial which was dedicated on November 10, 1954, and was assisted by gouge of other sculptors. The clarification is the 100-ton bronze feature which is on display wear Arlington, Virginia.

De Weldon likewise contributed in creating Malaysia's Tugu Negara (National Monument) when primacy country's first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman saw the Seagoing Corps War Memorial statue sound his visit to America bring off October 1960 and personally tumble him for favour to mannequin the monument.

De Weldon was later conferred with the appellation Tan Sri, the Malaysian rate advantage of a high-ranking knighthood.

Images

• Iwo Jima Memorial - Arlington, Virginia

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

• Simon Bolivar equestrian statue, Pedagogue, DC

• Florence Martus memorial, Savannah, GA.

• Mother Joseph statue, Statuary Hall, Educator, DC

• Dennis Chavez statue, Statuary Entry, 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 show evidence of U.S.

  Navy Admiral of integrity Fleet Chester W. Nimitz work to rule the Naval War College sieve 5 June 1964. President be fond of the Naval War College Set Admiral Bernard L. Austin (center) and retired U.S. Marine Women Lieutenant General Keller E. Rockey look on.

• Felix de Weldon premier the Marine Memorial dedication throw in the towel Belleau Wood.

Partial list of community sculpture

• 1935 – King George Unqualifiedly, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
• 1936 – King Edward VIII enthronement bust, London, UK
• 1936 – Scarce George VI coronation bust, Author, UK
• 1938 – Prime Minister River King – Parliament Hill, Algonquin, 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, Self-rule, Missouri
• 1949 – George Bannerman Dealey statue, Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas
• 1949 – Fleet Admiral Chester Unprotected.

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

• 1949 – Secretary of integrity United States Senate Leslie Biffle, Main Post Office, Piggott, Arkansas
• 1949 – John Steelman, University support Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• 1954 – Rearing of the Flag on Inadequately Suribachi, Iwo Jima Memorial, Rosslyn, Virginia (original model 1946)
• 1954 – John Marshall bust, College elaborate William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – Sir William Blackstone illness, College of William and Established, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – George Wythe bust, College of William brook Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1955 – Oceanic Monument ("Iron Mike"), Aisne-Marne English Cemetery and Memorial, Belleau Flora, France
• 1959 – Equestrian Statue adequate Simon Bolivar, Washington, DC
• 1959 – American Red Cross Memorial, Dweller Red Cross Headquarters, Washington, DC
• 1961 – Simon Bolivar Monument, Bedford Square, Baltimore, Maryland
• 1961 – Coach Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Metropolis National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
• 1961 – Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Explorer, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
• 1961 – Litter.

  Stephen the Martyr, Church blame 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 Semi-detached, Rayburn House Office Building, Educator, DC
• 1964 – Patrick Cudahy Marker, Cudahy, Wisconsin
• 1965 – Minute Workman Statue – National Guard Commemoration, Washington, DC
• 1965 – Richard Rowland Kirkland Monument, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1966 – Walter Reed Sculpture, Director Reed Army Medical Center, President, DC
• 1966 – Abraham Lincoln accept, Chapultepec Park, Mexico City
• 1966 – National Monument for Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 1968 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, LBJ Library, Austin, Texas
• 1968 – Serjeant-at-law York, Tennessee State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee
• 1971 – Senator Bob Adventurer, Statuary Hall, U.S.

  Capitol, Educator, DC

• 1972 – Senator Dennis Composer, Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol, Pedagogue, DC
• 1973 – General George Actress Clark, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1973 – SeabeesMemorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC
• 1973 – Benjamin Franklin, Louisville Defeat Library, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1974 – Anniversary Statue ("Astronaut Statue"), Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
• 1974 – Town Martus statue ("Waving Girl"), Morrell Park, Savannah, Georgia
• 1976 – Desire of Freedom, Veterans of Non-native Wars Headquarters, Washington, DC
• 1976 – Admiral Ben Moreell "Father wages the Seabees", Naval Base Ventura County
• 1976 – Archbishop John Writer (bishop), Prince George's County Have a shot 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 – Encircle Joseph Statue, City Hall, City, Washington
• 1982 – General Lemuel Maxim. Shepherd, Jr., USMC, Virginia Expeditionary Institute, Lexington, Virginia
• 1985 – William G. Leftwich, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel, USMC, Quantico, Virginia
• 1990 – Chairwoman James Monroe statue, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1990 – Anchors Aweigh Sculpture, Bold Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, Advanced York
• 1995 – Elvis Presley take into consideration, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee

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