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Flour City Ornamental Ironworks,
Rietschel, Ernest Friedrich August,
Portrait male -- Luther, Martin
Occupation -- Religion
Occupation -- Other
Object -- Written Matter
Dress -- Ecclesiastical
Outdoor Sculpture -- Iowa -- Decorah
Sculpture
Martin Luther at Worms, (sculpture).
Artist:
Flour City Ornamental Ironworks, founder.
Rietschel, Ernest Friedrich August, 1804-1861, sculptor. (copy after).
Title:
Martin Luther at Worms, (sculpture).
Dates:
Cast 1911. Dedicated Oct. 14, 1911.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Figure: bronze; Base: concrete covered with stucco.
Dimensions:
Figure: approx. 11 ft. x 4 ft. 6 in. x 4 ft. 6 in.; Base: approx. 10 ft. x 9 ft. 2 in. x 9 ft. 2 in.
Inscription:
(Front of bronze plinth:) cast by/Flower City Ornamental Iron Works/Minneapolis, Minn. (Proper left front corner, top side of bronze plinth:) (illegible . . .) Ornamental Iron Works/Minneapolis, Minn. unsigned Founder's mark appears.
Description:
Full length figure of Martin Luther standing on a tall, flaring concrete base, stuccoed white. Figure wears full length academic or religious robes; proper left arm cradles large Bible, its spine facing outward; proper right hand rests on Bible in closed fist. Proper right foot extends forward projecting off base. Head tilted upward, uplifted gaze.
Subject:
Portrait male -- Luther, Martin -- Full length
Occupation -- Religion -- Monk
Occupation -- Other -- Reformer
Object -- Written Matter -- Book
Dress -- Ecclesiastical
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Iowa -- Decorah
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Luther College, Fine Arts Collection, 700 College Drive, Decorah, Iowa 52101 Accession Number: 976
Located Luther College, In Front of Olson Hall, Decorah, Iowa
Remarks:
Owner indicates that sculpture is a copy of sculpture located at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri (dedicated 1903), and that Concordia sculpture is a copy of one created in Germany by Rietschel. Gift of women of the Norwegian Lutheran Synod. Cost: $2,547. IAS files contain unpublished archival material including accession record.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Iowa survey, 1994.
Luther College, 1994.
Bankson, Benjamin, 1988.
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 66780006
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Inventory of American Sculpture
66780006
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