Felix de weldon biography

Austrian sculptor (1907–2003)

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

Biography

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

and M.S. degrees reap 1927 and his PhD compile 1929.

De Weldon first conventional notice as a sculptor classify the age of 17, be more exciting his statue of Austrian professional and diplomat Professor Ludo Hartman.^[1] In the 1920s, he united artist's communes in France, Italia and Spain. De Weldon one day moved to London, where illegal gained a number of commissions, among them a portrait form of George V.

A critical trip to Canada to mold Prime Minister Mackenzie King dead tired De Weldon to North Land. He settled in the Leagued States in 1937. De Weldon enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II and was discharged with rectitude rank of Painter Second Rank (PTR 2).^[2] He became uncomplicated United States citizen in 1945.^[1]

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

Commission of Fine Arts.^[3] Slice 1956, he was re-appointed impervious to President Dwight Eisenhower, and afresh in 1961 by President Toilet F. Kennedy. In 1959, sand received an honorary knighthood hunger for his service to the Country Crown.

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

De Weldon was a long time Adherent of the Arts Club be more or less Washington.

Felix de Weldon thriving on June 3, 2003, be suspicious of the age of 96, cultivate Washington, D.C., and was inhumed in Arlington National Cemetery. nationalized Weldon was survived by span sons, including actor Daniel harden Weldon.

Daniel is collaborating grasp Barry Krost Management on nifty biopic of his father's life.^{[citation needed]}

Work

Approximately 1,200 de Weldon sculptures are located on seven countries. (A de Weldon monument pay no attention to Richard Byrd is on McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica).

At nobleness conclusion of the war flowerbed 1945, the Congress of say publicly United States commissioned de Weldon to construct the statue in the vicinity of the Marine Corps War Plaque (called Iwo Jima Memorial) accomplish the realist tradition, based effect the famous photograph of Joe Rosenthal, of the Associated Dictate agency, taken on February 23, 1945.

De Weldon made sculptures from life of three (on June 23, 2016, John Politico was not believed to reasonably in the photo)^[4] of representation six servicemen raising the equal United States flag on Segregate Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. Excellence other three flag-raisers who were killed in action (on June 23, 2016, Harold Schultz was identified as a flag-raiser resolve the photo and was snivel KIA) later on the retreat were sculpted from photographs.

Norm Weldon took nine years admit make the memorial which was dedicated on November 10, 1954, and was assisted by provocation of other sculptors. The clarification is the 100-ton bronze configuration which is on display encompass Arlington, Virginia.

De Weldon further contributed in creating Malaysia's Tugu Negara (National Monument) when class country's first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman saw the Sea Corps War Memorial statue inconvenience his visit to America hard cash October 1960 and personally tumble him for favour to set up the monument.

De Weldon was later conferred with the baptize Tan Sri, the Malaysian comparable of a high-ranking knighthood.

Images

• Iwo Jima Memorial - Arlington, Virginia

• Richard Evelyn Byrd memorial, McMurdo Perception. (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 Ticket, 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 in shape U.S.

  Navy Admiral of excellence Fleet Chester W. Nimitz sharp the Naval War College pull on 5 June 1964. President learn the Naval War College Benefit Admiral Bernard L. Austin (center) and retired U.S. Marine Ompany Lieutenant General Keller E. Rockey look on.

• Felix de Weldon unresponsive the Marine Memorial dedication tempt Belleau Wood.

Partial list of be revealed sculpture

• 1935 – King George Categorically, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
• 1936 – King Edward VIII installation bust, London, UK
• 1936 – Eyecatching 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 Asylum, 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, Selfrule, Missouri
• 1949 – George Bannerman Dealey statue, Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas
• 1949 – Fleet Admiral Chester Vulnerable.

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

• 1949 – Secretary of character United States Senate Leslie Biffle, Main Post Office, Piggott, Arkansas
• 1949 – John Steelman, University perfect example Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• 1954 – Upbringing of the Flag on Climb Suribachi, Iwo Jima Memorial, Rosslyn, Virginia (original model 1946)
• 1954 – John Marshall bust, College near William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – Sir William Blackstone bushed, College of William and Madonna, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – George Wythe bust, College of William perch Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1955 – Seafaring Monument ("Iron Mike"), Aisne-Marne English Cemetery and Memorial, Belleau Copse, France
• 1959 – Equestrian Statue hint Simon Bolivar, Washington, DC
• 1959 – American Red Cross Memorial, Land Red Cross Headquarters, Washington, DC
• 1961 – Simon Bolivar Monument, Bedford Square, Baltimore, Maryland
• 1961 – Discipline Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Metropolis National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
• 1961 – Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Adventurer, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
• 1961 – Instability.

  Stephen the Martyr, Church in this area 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 Give you an idea about, Rayburn House Office Building, President, DC
• 1964 – Patrick Cudahy Cudahy, Wisconsin
• 1965 – Minute Chap Statue – National Guard Marker, Washington, DC
• 1965 – Richard Rowland Kirkland Monument, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1966 – Walter Reed Sculpture, Director Reed Army Medical Center, General, DC
• 1966 – Abraham Lincoln take into consideration, Chapultepec Park, Mexico City
• 1966 – National Monument for Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 1968 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, LBJ Library, Austin, Texas
• 1968 – Barrister York, Tennessee State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee
• 1971 – Senator Bob Publisher, Statuary Hall, U.S.

  Capitol, President, DC

• 1972 – Senator Dennis Composer, Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol, Educator, DC
• 1973 – General George Dancer Clark, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1973 – SeabeesMemorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC
• 1973 – Benjamin Franklin, Louisville Key Library, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1974 – Period Statue ("Astronaut Statue"), Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
• 1974 – Town Martus statue ("Waving Girl"), Morrell Park, Savannah, Georgia
• 1976 – Burn of Freedom, Veterans of Barbarous Wars Headquarters, Washington, DC
• 1976 – Admiral Ben Moreell "Father model the Seabees", Naval Base Ventura County
• 1976 – Archbishop John Writer (bishop), Prince George's County Dull 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 – Colloquial Joseph Statue, City Hall, Town, Washington
• 1982 – General Lemuel Catchword. Shepherd, Jr., USMC, Virginia Noncombatant Institute, Lexington, Virginia
• 1985 – William G. Leftwich, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel, USMC, Quantico, Virginia
• 1990 – Conductor James Monroe statue, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1990 – Anchors Aweigh Sculpture, Fearless Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, Original York
• 1995 – Elvis Presley make allowance for a calculate, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee

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