Berthold Nebel
Berthold Nebel (1889–1964) was an American sculptor. Berthold Nebel was born in 1889 in Basel, Switzerland, and came to the United States with his parents when he was a year old. He could be confused with the German sculptor Paul Nebel from Düsseldorf, who is famous for motion studies of elks and bears that were cast in bronze on request by Kraas, Berlin. Training By 1900 his parents had settled in New Jersey, and Nebel as a young boy took lessons in oil painting from “an artist lady” who told him she could teach him nothing more and that he must go to art school. He began work at a decorative terra cotta factory in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he learned to model in clay. This factory produced architectural ornaments for Fifth Avenue mansions at the time. This exposure to a new media shifted his interest from painting to sculpture. While he was working days he studied at night at the National Academy of Design and the Mechanics' Institute, and attended Jame ...
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