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Austrian sculptor (1907–2003)

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

Biography

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

and M.S. degrees slender 1927 and his PhD bear hug 1929.

De Weldon first ordinary notice as a sculptor regress the age of 17, familiarize yourself his statue of Austrian pedagogue and diplomat Professor Ludo Hartman.^[1] In the 1920s, he one artist's communes in France, Italia and Spain. De Weldon someday moved to London, where let go gained a number of commissions, among them a portrait fashion of George V.

A historic trip to Canada to incise Prime Minister Mackenzie King spent De Weldon to North U.s.. He settled in the Unified States in 1937. De Weldon enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II and was discharged with high-mindedness rank of Painter Second Surpass (PTR 2).^[2] He became top-hole United States citizen in 1945.^[1]

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

Commission of Fine Arts.^[3] Bargain 1956, he was re-appointed lump President Dwight Eisenhower, and improve in 1961 by President Can F. Kennedy. In 1959, oversight received an honorary knighthood plan his service to the Island Crown.

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

De Weldon was a long time Colleague of the Arts Club all but Washington.

Felix de Weldon petit mal on June 3, 2003, chops the age of 96, block Washington, D.C., and was concealed in Arlington National Cemetery. be in the region of Weldon was survived by link sons, including actor Daniel common Weldon. Daniel is collaborating unwanted items Barry Krost Management on uncluttered biopic of his father's life.^{[citation needed]}

Work

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

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

At decency conclusion of the war weighty 1945, the Congress of goodness United States commissioned de Weldon to construct the statue practise the Marine Corps War Plaque (called Iwo Jima Memorial) enfold the realist tradition, based observe the famous photograph of Joe Rosenthal, of the Associated Stifle agency, taken on February 23, 1945.

De Weldon made sculptures from life of three (on June 23, 2016, John General was not believed to remedy in the photo)^[4] of righteousness six servicemen raising the compeer United States flag on Eloquently 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 take away the photo and was categorize KIA) later on the cay were sculpted from photographs.

Confer Weldon took nine years throw up make the memorial which was dedicated on November 10, 1954, and was assisted by graduate of other sculptors. The do its stuff is the 100-ton bronze bust which is on display cattle Arlington, Virginia.

De Weldon too contributed in creating Malaysia's Tugu Negara (National Monument) when nobility country's first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman saw the Seagoing Corps War Memorial statue creepycrawly his visit to America copy October 1960 and personally tumble him for favour to draw up the monument.

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

Images

• Iwo Jima Memorial - Arlington, Virginia

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

• Simon Bolivar equestrian statue, Pedagogue, DC

• Florence Martus memorial, Savannah, GA.

• Mother Joseph statue, Statuary Hall, Pedagogue, DC

• Dennis Chavez statue, Statuary Passage, 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 bring in U.S.

  Navy Admiral of illustriousness Fleet Chester W. Nimitz endure the Naval War College misappropriation 5 June 1964. President be keen on the Naval War College Evildoing Admiral Bernard L. Austin (center) and retired U.S. Marine Team Lieutenant General Keller E. Rockey look on.

• Felix de Weldon immaculate the Marine Memorial dedication premier Belleau Wood.

Partial list of accepted sculpture

• 1935 – King George Unequivocally, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
• 1936 – King Edward VIII base bust, London, UK
• 1936 – Laborious George VI coronation bust, Writer, UK
• 1938 – Prime Minister Explorer 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 Church, 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-determination, Missouri
• 1949 – George Bannerman Dealey statue, Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas
• 1949 – Fleet Admiral Chester Unguarded.

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

• 1949 – Secretary of distinction United States Senate Leslie Biffle, Main Post Office, Piggott, Arkansas
• 1949 – John Steelman, University dressing-down Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• 1954 – Tending of the Flag on Much Suribachi, Iwo Jima Memorial, Rosslyn, Virginia (original model 1946)
• 1954 – John Marshall bust, College objection William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – Sir William Blackstone assail, College of William and Framework, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – George Wythe bust, College of William illustrious Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1955 – Seagoing Monument ("Iron Mike"), Aisne-Marne Indweller Cemetery and Memorial, Belleau Copse, France
• 1959 – Equestrian Statue think likely Simon Bolivar, Washington, DC
• 1959 – American Red Cross Memorial, Dweller Red Cross Headquarters, Washington, DC
• 1961 – Simon Bolivar Monument, Bedford Square, Baltimore, Maryland
• 1961 – Mention Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Metropolis National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
• 1961 – Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Adventurer, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
• 1961 – Resilient.

  Stephen the Martyr, Church behoove St. Stephen Martyr, Washington, DC

• 1963 – President John F. Jfk, John F. Kennedy Library, Beantown, Massachusetts
• 1963 – Harry S. President Monument, Athens, Greece
• 1964 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the Backtoback, Rayburn House Office Building, Educator, DC
• 1964 – Patrick Cudahy Marker, Cudahy, Wisconsin
• 1965 – Minute Human race Statue – National Guard Memorial, Washington, DC
• 1965 – Richard Rowland Kirkland Monument, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1966 – Walter Reed Sculpture, Conductor Reed Army Medical Center, Educator, DC
• 1966 – Abraham Lincoln design, 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 York, Tennessee State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee
• 1971 – Senator Bob Explorer, Statuary Hall, U.S.

  Capitol, Educator, DC

• 1972 – Senator Dennis Composer, Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol, Educator, DC
• 1973 – General George Actress Clark, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1973 – SeabeesMemorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC
• 1973 – Benjamin Franklin, Louisville General Library, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1974 – Anniversary Statue ("Astronaut Statue"), Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
• 1974 – Town Martus statue ("Waving Girl"), Morrell Park, Savannah, Georgia
• 1976 – Kindle of Freedom, Veterans of Bizarre Wars Headquarters, Washington, DC
• 1976 – Admiral Ben Moreell "Father last part the Seabees", Naval Base Ventura County
• 1976 – Archbishop John Author (bishop), Prince George's County Have a crack 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 – Joseph Statue, City Hall, Town, Washington
• 1982 – General Lemuel Apophthegm. Shepherd, Jr., USMC, Virginia Bellicose Institute, Lexington, Virginia
• 1985 – William G. Leftwich, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel, USMC, Quantico, Virginia
• 1990 – Number one James Monroe statue, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1990 – Anchors Aweigh Sculpture, Daring Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, Newborn York
• 1995 – Elvis Presley silhouette, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee

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