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. Another photograph of Atanas Katchmakoff, with this sculpture, with his attorney Saul Ruskin, and art expert Dr. Ernest L. Tross appears in a Los Angeles Times article on 4/17/1935 titled: "Worth of Statue Debated: Value of Lost Madonna Estimated in Cost Case." At this time Katchmakoff sued Fred Keeler, the owner of the foundry that cast his Madonna sculpture for losing the plaster original. Two bronze sculptures had been made, but the owner of the bronze Madonnas had refused to allow his bronzes to be used to produce a new plaster cast. Atanas Katchmakoff standing next to his bronze Madonna sculpture placed on a tall bronze base of stacked hemispheres. Bulgarian sculptor Atanas Katchmakoff graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, and studied under Professor A. Nikolo in Rome and Franz Stuck in Munich. In 1923 he won the first prize at the Vienna international exhibition. He immigrated to Hollywood in 1927-1928 where he worked as a sculptor and art teacher. Text from negative sleeve: Katchmakoff Antanas, sculptor, 1928 Handwritten on negative: Atanas Katchmakoff, 4-16-1935
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5315 ark:/21198/zz002cv9wn
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Arts Sculptors--Bulgarian--California--Los Angeles People Katchmakoff, Atanas, 1898-
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