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    		• Hafner, Leopold,
     
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    		• History -- United States
     
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    		• Figure group -- Family
     
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    		• Ethnic -- German
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Bohemian
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Czech
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Minnesota -- New Ulm
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    German-Bohemian Immigrant Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Hafner, Leopold, sculptor.
    Title: 
    German-Bohemian Immigrant Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Installed 1991. Dedicated July 20, 1991.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 7 ft.; Base: approx. H. 9 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Front of base:) GERMAN-BOHEMIAN/IMMIGRANTS
    Description: 
    A family grouping of German-Bohemian immigrants in historic dress, with a man and woman standing with a child in front of them. The man is on the proper left and wears a hat, placing his proper right hand on the child's proper right shoulder. The child's hands are pressed together at his chest. The woman, her head covered, touches the child's hands with her proper left hand. The sculpture is mounted upon a graduated base. Around the base are granite slabs with over 350 immigrant family names. The monument is surrounded by a picket fence.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- Immigration
    Figure group -- Family
    Ethnic -- German
    Ethnic -- Bohemian
    Ethnic -- Czech
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Minnesota -- New Ulm
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of New Ulm, Parks Department, New Ulm, Minnesota 56073
    Located German Park, New Ulm, Minnesota
    Remarks: 
    The monument was erected by the German-Bohemian Heritage Society to commemorate the local immigrants who came from the eastern European region once known as Bohemia. The idea for the monument originated in early 1988 with Louis Lindmeyer, Jr., president of the German-Bohemian Society. IAS files contain a related excerpt from LaVern J. Rippley's and Robert J. Paulson's "German-Bohemians: The Quiet Immigrants," St. Olaf College Press, 1995, pg. xii-xiv. For related unpublished archival materials see files at the Brown County Historical Society (New Ulm, Minnesota).
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Minnesota survey, 1995.
    Illustration: 
    Rippley, LaVern J., and Paulson, Robert J., "German-Bohemians: the Quiet Immigrants," St. Olaf College Press, 1995, pg. xii.
    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 MN000489
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