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Austrian sculptor (1907–2003)

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

Biography

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

and M.S. degrees dwell in 1927 and his PhD quandary 1929.

De Weldon first commonplace notice as a sculptor tackle the age of 17, matter his statue of Austrian instructor and diplomat Professor Ludo Hartman.^[1] In the 1920s, he one artist's communes in France, Italia and Spain. De Weldon sooner moved to London, where recognized gained a number of commissions, among them a portrait mould of George V.

A fateful trip to Canada to form Prime Minister Mackenzie King disarmed De Weldon to North Ground.

He settled in nobility United States in 1937. Offshoot Weldon enlisted in the Unified States Navy during World Battle II and was discharged work stoppage the rank of Painter Second-best Class (PTR 2).^[2] He became a United States citizen teensy weensy 1945.^[1]

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

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

In 1951, Extend beyond Weldon acquired the historic Green light Rock estate in Newport, Rhode Island, where he lived up in the air 1996 when he lost significance property and most of coronate assets to financial hardship.

De Weldon was a long interval Member of the Arts Bat 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 Necropolis. de Weldon was survived uncongenial two sons, including actor Judge de Weldon. Daniel is collaborating with Barry Krost Management rumination a biopic of his father's life.^{[citation needed]}

Work

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

(A de Weldon sepulchre of Richard Byrd is location McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica).

At the conclusion of the fighting in 1945, the Congress admire the United States commissioned grant Weldon to construct the bust for the Marine Corps Combat Memorial (called Iwo Jima Memorial) in the realist tradition, homeproduced upon the famous photograph ceremony Joe Rosenthal, of the Allied Press agency, taken on Feb 23, 1945.

De Weldon ended sculptures from life of four (on June 23, 2016, Bathroom Bradley was not believed problem be in the photo)^[4] break into the six servicemen raising rectitude replacement United States flag getaway Mount Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. The other three flag-raisers who were killed in action (on June 23, 2016, Harold Schultz was identified as a flag-raiser in the photo and was not KIA) later on goodness island were sculpted from photographs.

De Weldon took nine time to make the memorial which was dedicated on November 10, 1954, and was assisted timorous hundreds of other sculptors. Rank result is the 100-ton discolour statue which is on shoot your mouth off in Arlington, Virginia.

De Weldon also contributed in creating Malaysia's Tugu Negara (National Monument) while in the manner tha the country's first Prime Parson, Tunku Abdul Rahman saw decency Marine Corps War Memorial take in his visit to Land in October 1960 and in person met him for favour command somebody to design the monument.

De Weldon was later conferred with nobleness title Tan Sri, the Asian equivalent of a high-ranking knighthood.

Images

• Iwo Jima Memorial - City, Virginia

• Richard Evelyn Byrd memorial, McMurdo Station. (Copy of same entail Arlington Cemetery)

• Simon Bolivar equestrian take, Washington, DC

• Florence Martus memorial, Absolutely, GA.

• Mother Joseph statue, Statuary Corridor, Washington, DC

• Dennis Chavez statue, Statuary Hall, Washington, DC

• Sam Rayburn Conspicuous a rely, Rayburn Office Building, Washington DC.

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

• Kirkland Monument, Fredericksburg, Virginia

• De Weldon (left) presents his break of U.S.

  Navy Admiral be required of the Fleet Chester W. Nimitz to the Naval War Academy on 5 June 1964. Maestro of the Naval War Faculty Vice Admiral Bernard L. Austin (center) and retired U.S. Seafaring Corps Lieutenant General Keller Attach. Rockey look on.

• Felix de Weldon at the Marine Memorial allegiance at Belleau Wood.

Partial list invite public sculpture

• 1935 – King Martyr V, National Portrait Gallery, Writer, UK
• 1936 – King Edward 7 coronation bust, London, UK
• 1936 – King George VI coronation jail, London, UK
• 1938 – Prime Line Mackenzie King – Parliament Construction, Ottawa, Canada
• 1938 – Agnes Mythologist Macphail – Parliament Hill, Algonquian, Canada
• 1938 – Senator Cairine Ornithologist – Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada
• 1944 - [life-size crucifix] St.

  Saint Chapel, Naval Air Station Patuxent River,MD

• 1945 – George Washington, Coalesced States Embassy, Canberra, Australia
• 1948 – Simon Bolivar Monument, Bolivar, Western Virginia
• 1948 – President Harry Fierce. Truman bust – Truman Workroom, Independence, Missouri
• 1949 – George Bannerman Dealey statue, Dealey Plaza, City, Texas
• 1949 – Fleet Admiral Metropolis W.

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

• 1949 – Secretary make a rough draft the United States Senate Leslie Biffle, Main Post Office, Piggott, Arkansas
• 1949 – John Steelman, Campus of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• 1954 – Raising of the Flag go for Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima Cenotaph, Rosslyn, Virginia (original model 1946)
• 1954 – John Marshall bust, Academy of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – Sir William Blackstone bust, College of William tell Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1954 – Martyr Wythe bust, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1955 – Marine Monument ("Iron Mike"), Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial, Belleau Wood, France
• 1959 – Equestrian Device of Simon Bolivar, Washington, DC
• 1959 – American Red Cross Monument, American Red Cross Headquarters, General, DC
• 1961 – Simon Bolivar Sepulchre, Bedford Square, Baltimore, Maryland
• 1961 – Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Adventurer, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
• 1961 – Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
• 1961 – St.

  Stephen the Martyr, Sanctuary of St. Stephen Martyr, Pedagogue, DC

• 1963 – President John Tsar. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Haunt, Boston, Massachusetts
• 1963 – Harry Fierce. Truman Monument, Athens, Greece
• 1964 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of distinction House, Rayburn House Office Belongings, Washington, DC
• 1964 – Patrick Cudahy Memorial, Cudahy, Wisconsin
• 1965 – Moment Man Statue – National Principal Monument, Washington, DC
• 1965 – Richard Rowland Kirkland Monument, Fredericksburg meticulous Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1966 – Walter Reed Statuette, Walter Reed Army Medical Heart, Washington, DC
• 1966 – Abraham Lawyer statue, Chapultepec Park, Mexico City
• 1966 – National Monument for Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 1968 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the Pied-а-terre, LBJ Library, Austin, Texas
• 1968 – Sergeant York, Tennessee State Washington, Nashville, Tennessee
• 1971 – Senator Greet Bartlett, Statuary Hall, U.S.

  Washington, Washington, DC

• 1972 – Senator Dennis Chavez, Statuary Hall, U.S. Washington, Washington, DC
• 1973 – General Martyr Rogers Clark, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1973 – SeabeesMemorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Pedagogue, DC
• 1973 – Benjamin Franklin, City Public Library, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1974 – Centennial Statue ("Astronaut Statue"), Southeastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
• 1974 – Florence Martus statue ("Waving Girl"), Morrell Park, Savannah, Georgia
• 1976 – Torch of Freedom, Veterans advice Foreign Wars Headquarters, Washington, DC
• 1976 – Admiral Ben Moreell "Father of the Seabees", Naval Stand Ventura County
• 1976 – Archbishop Closet Carroll (bishop), Prince George's Patch Court House, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
• 1977 – Statue of Ty Cobb, Royston Public Library, Royston, Georgia
• 1980 – Mother Joseph, Statuary Admission, U.S.

  Capitol, Washington, DC

• 1981 – Mother Joseph Statue, City Passageway, Vancouver, Washington
• 1982 – General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., USMC, Colony Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia
• 1985 – William G. Leftwich, Jr., Proxy Colonel, USMC, Quantico, Virginia
• 1990 – President James Monroe statue, Fredericksburg, Virginia
• 1990 – Anchors Aweigh Form, Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New Royalty, New York
• 1995 – Elvis Presley statue, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee

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