Biography from AskART:
| A sculptor in classical style, Bruno Zimm completed numerous public
works including the Slocum Memorial and Memorial Fountain in New York,
the Finnegan Memorial in Houston, Murdock Memorial in Wichita, a bust
of Robert E. Lee at Baylor College in Texas, 14 Stations of the Cross
at St. Clement's Church in Philadelphia, the Fine Arts Building of San
Francisco.
He was a member and exhibitor of the National Sculpture Society and a
founder and trustee of The Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen---the
Byrdcliffe Art Colony, and the Woodstock Memorial Association. In
that area, he also catalogued and collected fossils from rocks, a
collection subsequently purchased by the Smithsonian Institution.
He also served as President of the Woodstock Library for several terms
and was responsible for that entity becoming part of the State Library
Association.
Bruno Zimm was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. At a young age, he
showed talent for sculpture, and at age fifteen met Karl Bitter, much
respected sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. Bitter employed Zimm as a studio assistant for a
year and then sent him to Chicago to supervise Bitter's entry at the
Chicago Exposition of 1893. From there, Zimm studied in New York
at the Metropolitan Museum and the Art Students League and later with
Augustus Saint-Gaudens. In 1900, he earned the Silver Medal at
the Paris Exhibition of 1900.
Bruno Zimm died on November 24, 1943, and he is buried in Woodstock
Sources include:
Anita Smith, Woodstock History and Hearsay, p. 159-160
Glenn Opitz, Dictionary of American Sculptors
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