Emil Siebern
Emil Siebern (1888 – 1942) was an American sculptor. He was born in New York City, one of six children – five brothers and one sister – of immigrant German parents and studied art at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, where he met his future wife Marie Karl; she was studying the violin. The oil industry magnate John D. Rockefeller was an early patron for Siebern, who from 1909 until 1914 lived in a house on Rockefeller’s estate Kykuit in the Pocantico Hills, Mount Pleasant, and served there as "superintendent of statuary". Rockefeller financed him a tour of Italy, Greece and France to study art and sculpture there, and some of Siebern’s work appears in the gardens at Kykuit. After his wife had left him taking their three children Vincent, Everit and Marie with her, Siebern subsequently moved to Ossining and later, to Greenwich Village in Manhattan, where he taught sculpture from his studio. For a considerable time during the Great ...
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Emil Siebern (1888 – 1942) was an American sculptor. He was born in New York City, one of six children – five brothers and one sister – of immigrant German parents and studied art at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, where he met his future wife Marie Karl; she was studying the violin. The oil industry magnate John D. Rockefeller was an early patron for Siebern, who from 1909 until 1914 lived in a house on Rockefeller’s estate Kykuit Kykuit ( ), known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York 25 miles north of New York City. The house was built for oil tycoon and Rockefelle ... in the Pocantico Hills, Mount Pleasant, New York, Mount Pleasant, and served there as "superintendent of statuary". Rockefeller financed him a tour of Italy, Greece and France to study art and sculpture there, and some of Siebern’s work appears in the garde ...
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