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词条 John Walz
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Life in Savannah

  3. Gracie Watson

  4. Death

  5. Legacy

  6. Personal life

  7. References

John Walz (31 August 1844 – 1922) was a German-American sculptor most famous for his works created in Savannah, Georgia.

Early life

John Walz was born 31 August 1844 in Württemberg, Germany to John and Elizabeth Walz.[1]

When Walz was thirteen or fourteen, he immigrated to the United States.

His parents had died, and he went to Philadelphia to live with his married sister.[1]

There, he worked for eight years as a stonecutter, saving money to return to Europe for his education.

Walz studied sculpting in Paris under the direction of Aimé Millet and in Vienna under the direction of Viktor Oskar Tilgner.

In 1885, Walz returned to the United States.[2]

Life in Savannah

Carl Ludwig Brandt, the director of the Savannah, Georgia Telfair Academy, commissioned Walz's employer to create the statues that stand in front of the Academy.

In 1886, Walz accompanied the statues to Savannah.

He fell in love with the city, deciding to stay and open his own studio.[1]

Walz became a popular choice for creating gravesite monuments, creating over 70 monuments within Bonaventure Cemetery.[1]

Walz's works can also be found in Laurel Grove Cemetery and the city's Catholic Cemetery.[3]

Gracie Watson

One of his most famous works is the monument he created for Gracie Watson.

Gracie Watson was the only daughter of W. J. Watson and his wife, Frances.

The Watsons owned a hotel in Savannah.

Gracie became ill with pneumonia and died in 1889 at age six.

The year after her death, W. J. Watson took a photograph of Gracie to Walz, requesting a memorial to her.

Walz sculpted a lifelike monument of a pensive Gracie lost in thought.

Gracie's grave has been called "one of the most visited sites in Bonaventure Cemetery."[4]

Gracie's monument is also one of the only funerary monuments in Georgia sculpted in someone's exact likeness.[8]

Death

Walz died in 1922, and was interred at Bonaventure Cemetery.[5]

Surprisingly for his profession of creating gravesite memorials, Walz's grave was not initially marked by a memorial.

A simple wooden sign indicated his grave[1] until the Bonaventure Historical Society commissioned a monument for it.[3]

Legacy

In 2012, the Bonaventure Historical Society held a rededication ceremony for the John Walz Memorial Garden.

The {{cvt|4000|ft2|m2}} Memorial Garden contains a variety of over 80 plants.[6]

Bonaventure Cemetery also has a street named Walz Way in honor of him.[3]

Walz has been called a sculptor of "transcendant local importance."[7]

Personal life

Walz married Sarah Gilmore in 1907 at the age of 63.[1]

References

1. ^{{cite book|author1=Amie Marie Wilson|author2= Mandi Dale Johnson|year=1998|title=Historic Bonaventure Cemetery: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738542010|pages=100–101}}
2. ^{{cite book| title=The Artists Year Book|year=1905|author=The Art League Publishing Association|page=212}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telfair.org/article/monument-makers-of-bonaventure-cemetery/|title=Monument Makers of Bonaventure Cemetery|date=26 July 2018|access-date=9 September 2018|website=Telfair Museums}}
4. ^{{cite book|author=Douglas Keister|title=Stories in Stone|year=2004|publisher=Gibbs Smith|isbn=9781423611004}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.interment.net/data/us/ga/chatham/bonaventure-cemetery-records-wa-wh.htm|title=Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia|website=Internment.net|access-date=9 September 2018}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.wtoc.com/story/17926950/bonaventure-cemetary-honors-sculptor-john-walz|title=Bonaventure Cemetery honors sculptor, John Walz|website=WTOC|publisher=Raycom Media|year=2012|access-date=9 September 2018}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/9079e469-4e40-42d3-be72-57ab1d923071|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form|author=United States Department of the Interior|year=2000|access-date=9 September 2018}}
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