Lippold Wefer
Lippold is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Georg Lippold (1885–1954), German archaeologist * Kirk Lippold (born 1959), United States Navy officers * Richard Lippold (1915–2002), American sculptor See also * Ad Astra (Lippold sculpture), is a public artwork by Richard Lippold *Lippoldswilen Lippoldswilen is a village and former municipality in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. It was first recorded in the year 1303 as ''Lupoltwile''. The municipality also contained the village Unterstöcken as well as six other hamlets. It had 153 ...

Georg Lippold
Georg Lippold (21 February 1885 – 23 July 1954) was a German classical archaeologist born in Mainz. Lippold was a specialist of ancient Greek and Roman art. He studied at the Universities of Berlin and Munich. He was one of the last students of Adolf Furtwängler (1852–1907), who was an important influence to Lippold's career. Following graduation he worked at the Romano-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz, and in 1910–11 at the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg. In 1920 he relocated to the University of Erlangen as a lecturer, where he later served as a full professor of archaeology (1925-1953). Lippold succeeded Walther Amelung (1865–1927) as cataloguer of sculptures at the Vatican, publishing in 1936, ''Die Skulpturen des Vatikanischen Museums''. His second volume involving Vatican sculpture was published posthumously in 1956. After the death of archaeologist Paul Arndt in 1937, he took over editorship of ''Denkmäler griechischer und römischer Sculptur'' (" ...
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Kirk Lippold
Kirk S. Lippold (born April 29, 1959) is a former U.S. Navy officer. He was the commanding officer of the United States Navy destroyer on October 12, 2000, when the ship was attacked and bombed by al-Qaeda terrorists during a refueling stop in the Yemeni port of Aden, killing 17 U.S. sailors. Lippold assumed command of ''Cole'' on June 25, 1999, and served until he was relieved on March 9, 2001. Education Lippold is a 1981 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He received a Masters of Science in Systems Engineering (Joint Command, Control and Communications) from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, which he attended from 1987 to 1989. He graduated from United States Army Command and General Staff College in 1994 and from Joint Forces Staff College in 2001. Military Before serving as commanding officer of USS ''Cole'' from 1999 to 2001, Lippold was executive officer on the cruiser . He also served as the operations officer on the commissioning crew of the destroyer , the l ...
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Richard Lippold
Richard Lippold (May 3, 1915 – August 22, 2002) was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium. Life Lippold was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Chicago, and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in industrial design in 1937. Lippold worked as an industrial designer from 1937 to 1941. After he became a sculptor, Lippold taught at several universities, including Hunter College at the City University of New York, from 1952 to 1967. When describing Lippold's floor-to-ceiling sculpture "Trinity", the American artist Howard Newman said: Lippold was an engineering genius, but we've been dealing with a piece that had reached the threshold of catastrophe,...People's mouths fall open when they see it going back up, like they're watching a spider spin a web of blazing gold,...The more that goes up, the more exquisite it gets. The 14th and 15th of John Cage's famous ''Sonatas and Interludes'' for pr ...
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Ad Astra (Lippold Sculpture)
''Ad Astra'' is a public artwork by American artist Richard Lippold. The abstract sculpture is located outside on the Jefferson Drive entrance of and in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The sculpture's title is Latin, meaning "To the Stars". Description This abstract statue is made of gold-colored polished stainless steel. Standing at 100 feet tall, the piece consists of a "...three-planed narrow shaft ending in a pointed tip, penetrates a triple star-like cluster near its apex". "Lippard, Richard"
''The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists'', Ann Lee Morgan

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Lippold believed that "the characteristic art of our time deals with the con ...
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