Title supplied by cataloger.; Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1920s after obtaining a Ph.D. in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married Ethel Wisloh in 1936, and the pair moved to Los Angeles the following year. He worked in the film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, most notably on the animated features Fantasia and Pinocchio. His detailed notebook, documenting the special effects for Fantasia, is the subject of a 14-minute short-subject included on the film's DVD. In 1949, he started employment with Librascope as a patent engineer. Schultheis was an avid amateur photographer who traveled the world with his cameras. It was on one of these photographic exhibitions in 1955 that he disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later. The digitized portion of this collection represents the images Schultheis took of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities after he relocated to the area in 1937. Fountain called "Power of Water," sculpted by Henry Lion, Jason Herron, and Sherry Peticolas in 1934 as part of the Public Works of Art Project. It is located in the lower triangle of Lafayette Park, at the junction of Hoover Street and Lafayette Park Place. The female figure, who evokes water in the flowing lines of her hair and dress, is 12 feet high and stands on a rectangular pool featuring a bas-relief sculpture of men drinking from a stream.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Public Works of Art Project (U.S.) Power of Water (Sculpture) Statues--California--Los Angeles Bas-relief--California--Los Angeles Fountains--California--Los Angeles Parks--California--Los Angeles Lafayette Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Westlake (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Herron, Jason Peticolas, Sherry Lion, Henry
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