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    		• Wandschneider, Wilhelm,
     
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    		• H. Gladenbeck & Sohn,
     
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    		• Pickel Stone Company,
     
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    		• Allegory -- Quality
     
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    		• Allegory -- Quality
     
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    		• Allegory -- Quality
     
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    		• Figure female -- Nude
     
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    		• Homage -- Schurz, Carl
     
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    		• Homage -- Preetorius, Emil
     
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    		• Homage -- Daenzer, Carl
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- St. Louis
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    The Naked Truth, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Wandschneider, Wilhelm, 1886-1942, sculptor.
    H. Gladenbeck & Sohn, founder.
    Pickel Stone Company, contractor.
    Title: 
    The Naked Truth, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Statue of the Naked Truth, (sculpture).
    Schurz-Preetorius-Daenzer, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1913. Dedicated May 27, 1914. Relocated 1969.
    Medium: 
    Figure: bronze; Stele: red Missouri granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Figure: approx. H. 8 ft.; Stele: approx. H. 17 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On east side:) W. Wandschneider (On south side of stele, above figure's head:) SCHURZ PREETORIUS DAENZER (On north side of stele, left panel:) AS GERMAN AMERICANS AND LEADERS/OF THEIR COMPATRIOTS IN PUBLIC LIFE/IT EVER WAS THEIR LOFTY AIM AND STUDY PURPOSE/TO PROVE TRUE TO THE LAND OF THEIR ADOPTION/AND TO SERVE IT FAITHFULLY AND WELL. INDE=/PENDENT CHARACTERS STRIVING WITH/ARDENT ZEAL FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS/GREAT AND BEAUTIFUL IN LIFE, THEY/BROUGHT WITH THEM THE PRECIOUS TREA=/SURES OF GERMANIA'S CULTURE AND PLA=/CED THEM, A BLESSING FOR ALL COMING GENERATIONS, IN COLUMBIA'S KEEPING./ERECTED BY THEIR GRATEFUL FELLOW CITI=/ZENS IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR SERVICES (On north side of stele, center panel:) ERECTED ANNO 1914/BY THE PRETORIUS=SCHURTZ=DAENZER/MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION/ADOLPHUS BUSCH HONORARY PRESIDENT/DR. H. M. STARKLOFF, PRESIDENT/BEN ALTHEIMER, VICE PRESIDENT/AUGUST H. HOFFMAN, TREASURER/WM. C. F. LENZ, SECRETARY/BOARD OF DIRECTORS/DR. F. KOLBRENHEYER, GEO. RUECKOLDT/EDWARD C. KEHR, AUG. VOIGHT,/AUG. A. BUSCH, PROF. PETER HERZOG,/J. A. VAL. SCHMIDT, JUDGE JACOB KLEIN,/AUGUST DIEZ, E. G. WINTER, F. W. KECK. (North side of stele, right panel, is inscribed in German) signed
    Description: 
    A nude female figure with arms outstretched and a torch in each hand sits on the lower section of a stele that rises up behind her. A piece of cloth is draped over her head and out to each torch. She represents Truth enthroned just a few steps above the ground level of everyday existence. The stele formerly included three bronze medallions above the figure's head. The subjects of the medallions were: Beauty and Culture crossing the Ocean; Fight against baser Instincts; and Flight of Genius.
    Subject: 
    Allegory -- Quality -- Truth
    Allegory -- Quality -- Beauty
    Allegory -- Quality -- Prudence
    Figure female -- Nude
    Homage -- Schurz, Carl
    Homage -- Preetorius, Emil
    Homage -- Daenzer, Carl
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Missouri -- St. Louis
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of St. Louis, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Forestry, 5600 Clayton Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
    Located Reservoir Park, Grand & Russell Streets, St. Louis, Missouri
    Remarks: 
    Gift of the German-American Alliance and private donors, including Adolphus Busch. Cost: $46,000. The monument represents the German spirit of enlightenment in America, personified by Carl Schurz, Emil Preetorius and Carl Daenzer, editors of the Westliche Post. Controversy surrounded the monument in 1913 and 1914, first because the figure is nude; and, after the beginning of World War I, because the artist was German and the donors were of German background. The monument was relocated in 1969 from the north edge of the park to accommodate a highway. IAS files contain newspaper article from St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 26, 1913, and other unidentified clippings which discuss controversy over the monument. IAS files also contain copy from St. Louis Public Library Monthly Bulletin (July-Aug. 1925); and from George McCue's "Sculpture City: St. Louis," New York: Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1983, pg. 72. For related article see: St. Louis Republic, Aug. 4, 1913.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Missouri, St. Louis survey, 1994.
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985.
    McCue, George, "Sculpture City: St. Louis," New York: Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1983.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MO5033, 1989.
    Monumental News, June, 1913; Aug., 1914.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    McCue, George, "Sculpture City: St. Louis," New York: Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1983, pg. 72.
    Monumental News, June, 1913, pg. 409.
    Monumental News, Aug., 1914, cover.
    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 76000990
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