biografia di Erwin Frederick SPRINGWEILER (1896-1968)

Birth place: Pforzheim, Germany

Addresses: Carinthia Heights, Bronx, Wyandanch, NY

Profession: Sculptor, craftsperson

Studied: Art Craft School, Pforzheim; BAID; Acad. FA, Munich; asst. to Paul Manship, Herbert Hazeltine.

Exhibited: NSS, 1937 (prize); NAD, 1937, 1938 (prize, 1939-46; 1949 (prize), 1959 (Speyer Prize); NAD, 1937-46; PAFA Ann., 1938-50; WFNY, 1939; Arch. Lg., 1949 (prize); NAC, 1956 (medal of honor); AIC; Academic AA, 1959 (Sculpture House award); Locust Valley, LI, 1959 (sculpture prize), 1960 (sculpture prize); 150 Years of American Sculpture Exh., Old Westbury, NY, 1960.

Member: NSS; ANA; Int. Inst. Art & Letters; CAFA; McDowell Colony; Soc. Animal Artists.

Work: Congressional gold medals of George M. Cohan and General W. L. Mitchell; statues, Washington Zoo and Detroit, MI; Brookgreen Gardens; reliefs, Washington Zoo, USPO, Chester, PA, Highland Park, Detroit, Manchester, GA. Metalwork: Williamsburg Savings Bank Bldg., Brooklyn; Pub. Lib., Jamaica, N.Y. WPA artist. Other works at Norton Mus., Shreveport, LA; Syracuse Univ.

Comments: Contributor of articles to National Sculpture Review.

Sources: WW66; WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series.