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Baerer, Henry,
Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company,
Portrait male -- Beethoven, Ludwig van
Ethnic -- German
Performing Arts -- Music
Figure female -- Full length
Object -- Musical Instrument
Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- San Francisco
Sculpture
Beethoven, (sculpture).
Artist:
Baerer, Henry, 1837-1908, sculptor.
Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, founder.
Title:
Beethoven, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Ludwig van Beethoven, (sculpture).
Dates:
Original bust 1884. Installed Aug. 6, 1915.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 50 x 30 x 18 in.; Base approx. 136 x 94 x 94 in.
Inscription:
(Bronze base of female figure:) THE HENRY-BONNARD/BRONZE CO/MT. VERNON N.Y. 1915 (Base, front, raised letters:) BEETHOVEN (Base, back, incised:) DEDICATED/ TO THE CITY OF/ SAN FRANCISCO/ BY THE/ BEETHOVEN MAENNERCHOR/ OF NEW YORK/ AUGUST 6 1915/ UNDER THE AUSPICES/ OF THE/ GERMAN-AMERICAN AUXILIARY/ TO THE PANAMA PACIFIC/ INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION Founder's mark appears.
Description:
A huge bronze bust of Ludwig van Beethoven rests atop a tall granite base adorned on the front with a bronze female figure holding a lyre. The female is dressed in classical robes and holds the lyre out to her proper left side with both hands.
Subject:
Portrait male -- Beethoven, Ludwig van -- Bust
Ethnic -- German
Performing Arts -- Music -- Composer
Figure female -- Full length
Object -- Musical Instrument -- Lyre
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- San Francisco
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Arts Commission, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240, San Francisco, California 94102
Located Golden Gate Park, Academy of Sciences Drive, near the south side of the Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California
Exhibitions:
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.
Remarks:
The monument was a gift of the Beethoven Maennerchor (men's choir) of New York City. The bust is a replica of the original 1884 bust which stands in New York's Central Park. IAS files contain an excerpt from The Arts Commission of San Francisco's "San Francisco Civic Art Collection: A Guided Tour to Publicly Owned Art of the City and County of San Francisco," San Francisco, CA: Arts Commission of San Francisco, 1989, pg. 63; the text of a newspaper article from the San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 7, 1915, pg. 3; and an Arts Commission memo and cataloging card.
References:
Public Monument Conservation Project, 1986.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, California, San Francisco survey, 1993.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS CA000002
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