US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A similar photograph was published with the Los Angeles Times article titled "Wagner Shown in New Mood, Bust done for Memorial Celebration," with the caption "Arnold Foerster and Musician's Likeness," on 1/31/1933. Sculptor Arnold Foerster working on a bust sculpture of Richard Wagner (in his Glendale studio(?) at 2016 Alta Vista) with a photograph of the subject on the wall behind him. The work, in clay, is on a sculpture trestle with a rotating stand. The bust was to me on exhibition at the Hollywood Opera Readers' Club for the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. Noted Southern California sculptor Arnold Foerster created public sculpture mostly in bronze. He was born in Vienna and lived in Glendale from at least 1932 up to his death in 1943. Foerster is best-known for his statues of Ludwig van Beethoven (at Pershing Square), 1932; General Lafayette (at Lafayette Park), 1937; his collaborative role in the creation of the Astronomers Monument for the Griffith Park Observatory (which was his original concept and for which he engineered the 40 foot concrete obelisk), 1934; and his bronze bust of Griffith J. Griffith (for the Observatory), 1934. Los Angeles Times articles also mention bronze busts of Brahms and Father Juniperro, 1933; a three-times-life-size bust of Christ, 1934; and statues of Abraham Lincoln and Rasputin, seen in his studio. Text from negative sleeve: Foerster, Arnold, Scupltor Handwritten on negative: Arnold Foerster
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4651 ark:/21198/zz002ctj04
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Arts People Sculptors--Austrian--California--Glendale Sculpture--California--Glendale Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883, Portraits Foerster, Arnold, 1878-1943
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