Animal sculptor Albert Laessle, associated with the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in 1877. Taking a page from similar criticism leveled against the great French sculptor, Auguste Rodin, Laessle recalled that his work was so realistic, that, as a young artist, his fellow students accused him of casting his animals directly from life, rather than modeling them. Whereupon Laessle made a wax sculpture of the same subject to prove them wrong.
Two Laessle sculptures, Lo (showing 500 of 9032 characters). |
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San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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