Sculptor Arnold Foerster working on a bust sculpture of Richard Wagner, Glendale, 1933

Title: Sculptor Arnold Foerster working on a bust sculpture of Richard Wagner, Glendale, 1933
Date Created: 1933
Date: 1933
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: A similar photograph was published with the Los Angeles Times article titled "Wagner Shown in New Mood, Bust done for Memorial Celebration," with the caption "Arnold Foerster and Musician's Likeness," on 1/31/1933.
Sculptor Arnold Foerster working on a bust sculpture of Richard Wagner (in his Glendale studio(?) at 2016 Alta Vista) with a photograph of the subject on the wall behind him. The work, in clay, is on a sculpture trestle with a rotating stand. The bust was to me on exhibition at the Hollywood Opera Readers' Club for the 50th anniversary of the composer's death.
Noted Southern California sculptor Arnold Foerster created public sculpture mostly in bronze. He was born in Vienna and lived in Glendale from at least 1932 up to his death in 1943. Foerster is best-known for his statues of Ludwig van Beethoven (at Pershing Square), 1932; General Lafayette (at Lafayette Park), 1937; his collaborative role in the creation of the Astronomers Monument for the Griffith Park Observatory (which was his original concept and for which he engineered the 40 foot concrete obelisk), 1934; and his bronze bust of Griffith J. Griffith (for the Observatory), 1934. Los Angeles Times articles also mention bronze busts of Brahms and Father Juniperro, 1933; a three-times-life-size bust of Christ, 1934; and statues of Abraham Lincoln and Rasputin, seen in his studio.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Foerster, Arnold, Scupltor
Handwritten on negative: Arnold Foerster

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883, Portraits
Foerster, Arnold, 1878-1943
Location: Glendale (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.1293329
Latitude: -118.2462839
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Arts
People
Sculptors--Austrian--California--Glendale
Sculpture--California--Glendale

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4651
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ctj04
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