1. Bruno Mankowski, was a German-born American sculptor, carver, ceramicist and medalist.
25 Facts About Bruno Mankowski
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Bruno Mankowski was born in Berlin to Tadeusz Mankowski and Emily Kaselow.
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Bruno Mankowski's father was an architectural sculptor, who gave him early art instruction, and under whom he later apprenticed.
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Bruno Mankowski studied under Joseph Thorak at the Municipal and State Art Schools in Berlin.
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Bruno Mankowski emigrated to the United States in 1928, and studied further at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design in New York City.
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Bruno Mankowski did work on the US Supreme Court Building, although no specific project has been connected to him.
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Alongside carvers William Kapp, Roger Morigi and Otto Thieleman, Mankowski executed the work of sculptor Paul Jennewein for what is the Robert F Kennedy Department of Justice Building.
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Sculptor Carl L Schmitz turned the illustrations into plaster models, and Mankowski carved them into the limestone.
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Bruno Mankowski exhibited Pieta at the 14th Ceramic National Exhibition, hosted by the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
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Bruno Mankowski won the 1949 design competition to create the medal commemorating the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Medallic Art Company.
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Bruno Mankowski carved nine of the relief busts in marble, modeled by sculptors Gaetano Cecere, Jean de Marco, and Thomas Hudson Jones.
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Bruno Mankowski carved Courage in marble, 1950, and it was installed over the West Doorway of the Senate Chamber.
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Under the supervision of Paul Manship, Bruno Mankowski created a replica of the Genius of America pediment for the East Portico of the US Capitol.
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Bruno Mankowski was commissioned to recreate the warships' figureheads for the liners.
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Bruno Mankowski made life size models of his replica figureheads, but the plan for enlarging them and mounting them on the bows of the liners was abandoned.
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Bruno Mankowski created numerous designs for the Steuben Glass Company, notably the etched crystal Buffalo Bowl.
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Paul Jennewein and Bruno Mankowski reunited for a project at the National Library of Medicine, in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Bruno Mankowski's solution was essentially a larger-than-life drawing of the trio, its lines inscribed into the gray marble of library's lobby, then gold leafed.
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Malvina Hoffman modeled, and Bruno Mankowski carved in limestone, a roundel relief bust of Henry Clay Frick, for the facade of the Frick Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Bruno Mankowski exhibited semi-regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts's annual exhibitions, from 1934 to 1954.
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Bruno Mankowski exhibited at the Artists for Victory Exhibition, hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in December 1942.
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Bruno Mankowski was elected to the National Sculpture Society in 1941, and elected a fellow in year.
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Bruno Mankowski was elected a member of the American Numismatic Society in year, and was elected a fellow in year.
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Bruno Mankowski was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1950.
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Bruno Mankowski was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1956, and elected an academician in 1968.