Hans Schuler
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Hans Schuler (May 25, 1874 - March 30, 1951) was an American sculptor and monument maker who graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), having studied there at the Rinehart School of Sculpture. Schuler won the Salon Gold Medal in Paris in 1901, and he served as president of MICA from 1925 to 1951. His works are in the collections of museums including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. His Baltimore studio is still in use as the Schuler School of Fine Arts.
Schuler's sculptures and monuments grace many public places. Among them is a statue of U.S. President James Buchanan in Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C. It is the only public memorial dedicated to Buchanan.
While Hans Schuler created many public monuments, he also created extremely sensual examples of free sculpture, including a life-sized and very life-like marble nude - now at the Walters Art Museum - representing the abandoned Ariadne, writhing in sadness and longing. Below is a link to an image and auction record of another Schuler piece of this type, recently sold at Christies in London.
Other works by Schuler can be found in the Arlington National Cemetery, National Portrait Gallery, Fogg Art Museum, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Historical Society, University of Virginia, St. John's College (Annapolis, Maryland), Louisiana State University, State University of New York, (Albany and Bronx), and in various parks in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. area. He is buried in Loudon Park National Cemetery.
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[edit] Cemetery monuments
Like many of the successful sculptors of his day Schuler created many cemetery memorials. Most are located in and around Baltimore. These include:
- Key Memorial, Cathedral Cemetery
- Hinrich Memorial, Druid Ridge Cemetery
- Gail Memorial, Druid Ridge Cemetery
- Schmidt Memorial, Druid Ridge Cemetery
- Wagner-Lawyer Memorial, Druid Ridge Cemetery
- Coates Memorial, Druid Ridge Cemetery
- Baetjer Memorial, Greenmount Cemetery
- Hilken Memorial, Greenmount Cemetery
- Maulsby Memorial, Greenmount Cemetery
- Riggs Memorial, Greenmount Cemetery
- Mendels Memorial, Hebrew Cemetery
- Oppenheim Memorial, Hebrew Cemetery
- Krug Memorial, Loudon Park Cemetery
- Husted Memorial, Loudon Park Cemetery
- Nitze Memorial, Loudon Park Cemetery
- Kaiser Memorial, Loudon Park Cemetery
- Newcomes Memorial, Woodlawn Cemetery
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Davenport, R. J.; Davenport's art reference & price guide (Davenport's Art Reference; Ventura, Calif.; biennial (every 2 years) ISSN: 1540-1553; OCLC: 18196910
- Falk, Peter H.; Who was who in American art (Madison, Conn. : Sound View Press, 1985) ISBN 0-932087-00-0
- Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Cemetery Sculpture of America, unpublished manuscript
- Opitz, Glenn B., ed., "Dictionary of American Sculptors" (Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1984) ISBN 0-938290-03-7
- Rusk, William Sener, Art in Baltimore: Monuments and Memorials, The Norman Remington Company, Baltimore, 1924. OCLC: 11367564
[edit] External links
- Schuler School of Fine Arts website
- Askart.com page on Hans Schuler
- Auction record with COLOR IMAGE of Schuler work sold at Christies, London, in September 2006
- "Find-a-grave" information on Schuler, including a photo of the artist (documenting his burial in Loudon Park National Cemetery)
- Baltimore City Paper article on Schuler (Tom Chalkley, January 2001)
