Frederick Triebel

Statue of Henry Mower Rice in the National Statuary Hall Collection

Frederick Ernest "Fritz" Triebel (December 29, 1865 – 1944 ) American sculptor, best remembered for his two works, marble statues of George Laird Shoup and Henry Mower Rice, located in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington D.C. He was born in Peoria, Illinois, where his father, was a monument maker.[1] His father had been apprenticed as a stone carver in Germany before immigrating to the United States and it was likely from him that Triebel learned the rudiments of sculpting.

At the age of 16 Triebel was apprenticed to a stone carver in Chicago, and from there he moved to first New York and then Boston. In 1882 he won a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy where he attended and prospered. While there he married Santina Grosse. Their first two children, Dante and Beatrice were born in Italy. In the early 1890s Triebel was invited to be a part of the international sculpture selection jury for the World's Columbian Exposition[2] He also exhibited six works at the exposition.[3]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ http://www.historicillinois.com/databaseitems/37-people/peoria-people/81-frederick-triebel
  2. ↑ Cooley, Adelaide N. ‘’The Monument Maker: A Biography of Frederick Ernest Triebel, The rediscovery of a forgotten American sculptor’’ Exposition Press, Hicksville NY, 1978 p.7-8
  3. ↑ ‘’Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World’s Fair’’, National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1993 pp.378-379


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