Franz Xavier Dengler (known as Frank Dengler; 1853

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, Ohio – 1879) was an American sculptor.

Biography

He went abroad while young, studied in the

Munich Academy of Fine Arts The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...

, and received there in 1874 a silver medal for his group the "Sleeping Beauty." He was for a short time an instructor in modeling in the

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, but resigned in 1877 on account of failing health, and moved to

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, and afterward to Cincinnati. Among his works are "Azzo and Melda" (1877), an ideal head of "America," and several portrait busts.Opitz, Glenn B, editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986

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* 1853 births 1879 deaths 19th-century American sculptors 19th-century American male artists American male sculptors Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts faculty {{US-sculptor-stub