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|  Active in New York City as a sculptor, lecturer and teacher, George Lober was secretary of the Art Committee for the City of New York and was a teacher at the Grand Central School of Art. He lectured widely and was also a contributing writer on sculpture for Grolier Encyclopedia.
He trained in New York at the National Academy of Design, Beaux Arts Institute of Design, and Columbia University. Teachers included Alexander Stirling Calder, Gutzon Borglum and Evelyn Longman.
Lober was an associate member of the National Academy of Design, 1932; National Academician, 1935; Architectural League of New York; National Sculpture Society; Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; National Arts Club; Salmagundi Club; Artists American; American Numismatic Society; Grand Central Art Gallery; Lotos Club; and Century Club
Exhibition venues included the National Academy of Design; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts annual, 1919-24, 1927-33, 1942-44; National Arts Club; Montclair Art Museum; Century Club; Seligmann Gallery; Ferargil Gallery
He received awards from the Architectural League of New York, 1911; Art Institute of Chicago, 1918-23; Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, 1924; Art Club of the Oranges, New Jersey, 1926; Grand Central Art Gallery, 1913; Allied Art Association, 1932; National Academy of Design, 1935; National Arts Club; Montclair Art Museum, 1934; Alliance. Artists American; National Sculpture Society, 1952; Clinedinst award, 1950; Danish medal, awarded by the King of Denmark, 1946; In 1959, he was knighted —Ridder of Dannebrog,˜ 1950.
For the Grand Central School of Art, he designed a bronze commemorative medal in 1926
Among his public sculpture figures is Hans Christian Andersen in Central Park, New York.
Sources:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
http://www.nybeyondsight.org/hans-christian.shtml
Susan Luftschein, One-Hundred Years of American Medallic Art, p. 48
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