General Franz Sigel, (sculpture).

General Franz Sigel, (sculpture).

Cauer, Robert, b. 1863, sculptor.

Unknown (Lauchhammer, Germany), founder.

General Franz Sigel, (sculpture).

General Franz Sigel Monument, (sculpture).

1906. Dedicated June 24, 1906. Rededicated June 23, 1908.

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Sculpture: bronze with brown/black patina; Base: limestone.

Sculpture: approx. 11 ft. x 4 ft. 9 in. x 10 ft. 9 in.; Base: approx. 8 ft. 1 in. x 4 ft. 9 in. x 9 ft. 9 in.

(On south face of base:) EXECUTED BY/ROBERT CAUER/SCULPTOR/1906 (On north face of base:) TO REMIND/FUTURE GENERATIONS/OF THE HEROISM OF THE/GERMAN-AMERICAN PATRIOTS/OF ST. LOUIS AND VICINITY/IN THE CIVIL WAR OF/1861 TO 1865/GENERAL FRANZ SIGEL

Bronze sculpture depicting a male figure mounted on a horse. The figure wears a hat and holds binoculars in his proper right hand. The horse is in a walking attitude, with all four hooves on the ground. The sculpture is mounted on a limestone base decorated with a carved leaf motif encircling the top. The sculpture is situated on a grassy mound of earth in a triangular traffic island. There are two sets of three stone steps located at the east and west approaches to the sculpture. A concrete ("granitoid") sidewalk encircles the raised mound on which the sculpture is located.

Portrait male -- Sigel, Franz -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- General

History -- United States -- Civil War

Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- St. Louis

Administered by City of St. Louis, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Forestry, 5600 Clayton Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110

Located Forest Park, Intersection of Government & McKinley Drives, St. Louis, Missouri

Donated by Sigel Monument Association. Cost: approximately $10,000. Funds were raised from German-Americans throughout the country. IAS files contain copy from unpublished 1969 mayor's report "Public Art - St. Louis," which gives an unveiling date of June 24, 1906, and a dedication date of June 23, 1908. For related articles see St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Aug. 17, 1947; and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 28, 1974.

Monumental News (April 1905) includes a description of what seems to be an earlier conception of this sculpture: "a bronze equestrian group surmounts a granite pedestal bearing bas-reliefs. In front of the pedestal will stand a bronze statue of a color bearer."

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Missouri, St. Louis survey, 1992.

National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MO0037, 1989.

McCue, George, "Sculpture City: St. Louis," New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1988.

Loughlin, Caroline, and Catherine Anderson, "Forest Park," Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1986.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.

Monumental News (April 1905): pg. 282.

Loughlin, Caroline, and Catherine Anderson, "Forest Park," Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1986, pg. 261.

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