Allegorical Male Figure (cast from model for Lowry Memorial, Minneapolis)
1913 · painted plaster relief
39 1/4 x 54 5/8 x 21 5/8 in. (99.6 x 138.6 x 54.9 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Karl Bitter
1867
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21
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Karl Bitter was an Austrian-born American sculptor specializing in architectural ornament, public memorials, and residential commissions. Working primarily in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he developed a distinctive practice integrating figural and decorative relief sculpture into building facades and civic monuments. His work synthesized European academic training with American architectural ambitions, establishing him as a leading practitioner of monumental public sculpture during the Beaux-Arts period.
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