Frank Dengler
American artist
Franz Xavier Dengler (known as Frank Dengler; 1853 Cincinnati, Ohio – 1879) was an American sculptor.
Biography
He went abroad while young, studied in the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, and received there in 1874 a silver medal for his group the "Sleeping Beauty." He was for a short time an instructor in modeling in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, but resigned in 1877 on account of failing health, and moved to Covington, Kentucky, and afterward to Cincinnati. Among his works are "Azzo and Melda" (1877), an ideal head of "America," and several portrait busts.
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Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Dengler, Frank" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
References
"Smithsonian Institution Research Information System: Smithsonian American Art Museum: Art Inventories Catalog: Franz Xavier Dengler". Retrieved August 8, 2011.
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