Herman Matzen

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Herman Matzen (July 15, 1861 – April 22, 1938) {{cite web|title=Matzen, Herman N. - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History|url=http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=MHN |publisher=ech.case.edu |accessdate=2012-12-23}} American sculptor and educator, born in Denmark.

Early years

Matzen studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin before immigrating to the United States.Opitz, Glenn B., Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1988 After moving first to Detroit he ultimately settled in Cleveland.

Selected works

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Justice and Law, Summit County Courthouse, Akron, Ohio, 1908
Monumental statues of Cain and Abel at the Lake County Court House, Painesville, Ohio, 1909
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry Monument, with William Walcutt, Fort Huntington Park, Cleveland, Ohio, 1929
The Angel of Death Victorious or The Haserot Angel located at the Lake View Cemetery, 1924Vigil, Vicki Blum, photographs by Gale V Flament ‘’Cleveland Cemeteries: Stones, Symbols & Stories’’, Gray and Company, Publishers, Cleveland, 1999 p. 107
Friedrich von Schiller, Belle Isle Park 1908.

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References

Category:19th-century American sculptors

Category:1861 births

Category:1938 deaths

Category:Immigrants to the United States

Category:Prussian Academy of Arts alumni

Category:National Sculpture Society members

Category:Cleveland School (arts community)

Category:Cleveland Institute of Art faculty

Category:20th-century American sculptors