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Jakob Otto Schweizer (March 27, 1863, Zurich - 1955) was a Swiss-American sculptor noted for his work on war memorials. ==Biography== Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Schweizer enrolled in that city's Industrial Art School in 1879. In 1882, he entered the Royal Academy of Art in Dresden, Germany, and lived in Florence, Italy, 1889-94. He arrived in New York City in 1894, and settled in Philadelphia the following year.〔(National Park Service biography ) from Valley Forge National Historical Park.〕 He was a member of Philadelphia's German Society of Pennsylvania, and through its connections he obtained his first major commission, a bronze statue of General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (1910–11). He was also a Freemason.〔(Famous Masons (under sculptors) )〕 Schweizer created 7 sculptures for the Gettysburg Battlefield, more than any other artist. Among these was a larger-than-life statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Pennsylvania State Memorial. He modeled another Lincoln statue for the Memorial Room at the Union League of Philadelphia, and flanked it with 8 portrait reliefs of Union officers.〔"John Otto Schweizer 1863-1955," in Maxwell Whiteman, ''Paintings and Sculpture at The Union League of Philadelphia'' (The Union League of Philadelphia, 1978), p. 115.〕 His only equestrian statue, ''Baron von Steuben'' (1921), is in Milwaukee. He modeled dozens of busts, bas-reliefs and medalions,〔(1917 Alexander the Great medalion )〕 and exhibited at the 1916 continuation of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.〔(Illustrated Catalogue )〕 His ''All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors'' (1934), originally placed in Fairmount Park, is now in Philadelphia's Logan Square. Schweizer died in 1955, at the age of 92. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J. Otto Schweizer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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