Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gerhart Hauptmann was born 63 years ago, son of a hotelkeeper, grandson of a weaver, in Salzbrunn. Germany. He mixed farming and school, until old enough (18) to become a sculptor in the art school at Breslau. He interested himself in the natural sciences and sociology, married wealth and built up a reputation as a dramatist upon plays expressing his revolt against social and artistic conditions in a milito-capitalistic state. The uproar caused by his sententious eloquence paralleled Corneille's presentation of Le Cid in 17th Century Paris, and drew such attention that in 1905 Oxford hailed...
That any man could go to Paris and purchase 98 original bronzes by a sculptor who ranks in the very thin and isolated company of the world's greatest artists, appears incredible-would be impossible, if it were not that Rodin, all his life, created images in stone as rapidly as if to do so were a natural, an inescapable function of his body. An eminent critic once stated that Balzac, the novelist, was not an individual but one of Nature's forces, like fire or che wind; Rodin was treated with the same sort of primary electricity...
Engaged. Monica Borglum, niece of Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and daughter of the late Sculptor Solon H. Borglum, to A. M. Davies of London, onetime officer in the Royal Air Force, son of Sir. A. T. Davies, permanent Secretary for Welsh Education...
Last week appeared three items of news, each a distant echo of the roar made by Sculptor Gutzon Borglum when ousted last winter (TIME, Mar. 16) by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association...
...Atlanta Sculptor Augustus Lukeman, chosen to succeed Borglum at his task, finished a plaster model of what Stone Mountain will look like when his men have hacked and drilled it. Jefferson Davis, in a flowing riding cape, rides into eternity across the mountain-front, closely followed by General Robert E. Lee astride his famed "Traveler", with General Stonewall Jackson pressing on his flank with a detachment of eight tattered troopers...