Adolph Robert Kraus (August 5, 1850 - November 6, 1901), known professionally as Robert Kraus, was an American sculptor, born in
Zeulenroda
Zeulenroda-Triebes is a German town in the district of Greiz in the state of Thuringia.
Zeulenroda-Triebes is situated in the south of Greiz in the mountains of the Thuringian Slate Mountains (Thüringer Schiefergebirge), on the border with Saxon ...
, Germany and active in
Boston.
Biography
Adolph Robert Kraus was born in
Zeulenroda
Zeulenroda-Triebes is a German town in the district of Greiz in the state of Thuringia.
Zeulenroda-Triebes is situated in the south of Greiz in the mountains of the Thuringian Slate Mountains (Thüringer Schiefergebirge), on the border with Saxon ...
on August 5, 1850.
He immigrated to the United States in 1881, and is best known for his sculpture of the ''
Boston Massacre Monument
The Boston Massacre Monument, also known as the Crispus Attucks Monument and ''Victory'', is an outdoor bronze memorial by Adolph Robert Kraus, installed in Boston Common, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Description and history
The monu ...
'' in
Boston Common, the winged Victory figures that crowned the towers of Machinery Hall in the
Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, hel ...
of 1893, and the Randidge monument in
Forest Hills Cemetery
Forest Hills Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery, greenspace, arboretum and sculpture garden located in the Forest Hills section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established in 1848 as a public ...
. He won the
Grand Prize of Rome and was a pensioner of the
Prussian government before moving to the United States.
He was hospitalized in
Danvers, Massachusetts
Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located on the Danvers River near the northeastern coast of Massachusetts. The suburb is a fairly short ride from Boston and is also in close proximity to the renowned beaches of Glo ...
after showing signs of mental illness while attempting to create a sculpture of
Belshazzar at the moment of seeing the handwriting on the wall. He died there on November 6, 1901.
Gallery
File:Boston Massacre Memorial - IMG 9560.JPG, Massacre memorial on the Boston Common
References
* ''Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events'', D. Appleton and company, 1902, page 441.
* ''American architect and architecture'', The American Architect, volumes 71-74, 1901, page 50.
* Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, ''Forest Hills Cemetery'', Arcadia Publishing, 2009, page 80. .
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American sculptors
1850 births
1901 deaths
German emigrants to the United States