Franz Schubert, (sculpture).

Franz Schubert, (sculpture).

Baerer, Henry, 1837-1908, sculptor.

Franz Schubert, (sculpture).

Installed Oct. 6, 1891.

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Sculpture: bronze; Base: limestone and granite with bronze plaque.

Sculpture: approx. H. 46-51 in.; Base: approx. H. 85-128 in.; Base plaque: approx. 34 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 2 in.

(Sculpture, on bronze base, there is a signature consisting of two names that appear to begin with the letter V, but are too worn to read.) (Base, front bronze plaque, lower proper right side:) cast by THE HENRY BONNARD BRONZE CO./New York 1891 (Base, front bronze plaque, lower proper right corner:) HENRY BAERER/Sculptor N.Y. (Base, upper front:) SCHUBERT (Base, lower front:) GRAND PRIZE AWARDED TO THE UNITED/GERMAN SINGERS OF PHILADELPHIA/STADTE PREIS ERRUNGEN VON DEN/VEREINICTEN SAENGERN PHILADELPHIAS/BEIM 16TEN NATIONAL SANGERFEST/NEWARK, N J 4-8TEN JULL 1891 signed founder's mark appears.

Bust of Franz Schubert dressed in a shirt with a tie at the neck and a jacket with a wide collar and lapels. His curly hair is brushed back from his face and he stares straight ahead. The sculpture rests atop a tall base adorned on the front with a bronze plaque. In the center of the plaque, there is a floating female figure whose loose drapery reveals her proper left breast. In her proper left hand she holds a lyre. In her proper right hand she holds a branch up over her head. She is flanked by three floating cherubs, two below her on her proper left and one under her arm on her proper right. The cherub on her right plays a violin.

Portrait male -- Schubert, Franz -- Bust

Performing Arts -- Music -- Composer

Figure female -- Full length

Object -- Musical Instrument -- Lyre

Figure male -- Child -- Nude

Religion -- Angel

Object -- Musical Instrument -- Violin

Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Administered by City of Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Commission, Memorial Hall, West Park, P. O. Box 21601, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131

Located Fairmount Park, Horticultural Center, west side of park, Belmont Avenue & North Horticultural Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gift of the United German Singers of Philadelphia to the City.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985

City of Philadelphia, 1973.

Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 155.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.

Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 155.

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