The Express Mail Carrier - Altoona, Pennsylvania - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Inscription on the plaque mounted to the base of the sculpture, " The Express Mail Carrier by Heinz Warneke, Presented to the Railroaders Memorial Museum by Rotary Club of Altoona, April 3, 1982"

About the artist:"Heinz Warneke (June 30, 1895 – 1983) American sculptor, best remembered as an animalier. His "role in the direct carving movement assured him a place in the annals of Twentieth Century American sculpture." In 1935 Heinz received the Widener Gold Medal for his sculpture Wild Boars.

The artist was born Heinrich Johann Dietrich Warneke in Hagen bei Leeste, a small village near Bremen, Germany and pursued his art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. There his teachers included Karl Blossfeldt.

During World War I, Warneke was a member of the German Monuments Commission but later moved to New York in 1923. He spent the years 1927–1932 in Paris creating a social realism, art-deco and primitivism sculptural style. When he returned to the United States, Warneke undertook multiple commissions for the Works Progress Administration.

He shared his skills with young art students by teaching sculpture at various institutions. From 1943 to 1968, Warneke taught in Washington, D.C. at the George Washington University and the Corcoran School of Art.

Warneke died in Connecticut in 1983.

Wikipedia

TITLE: The Express Mail Carrier ARTIST(S): Heinz Warneke DATE: 1936 MEDIUM: Patinated plaster CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 66400089 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: 1200 Ninth Avenue Altoona, PA, 16602 United States DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: The original sculpture is of aluminum where this replica that of patinated plaster

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