German-born American sculptor who built polychrome figures within the pediment from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as the sculpture Nymph and Fawn. He apprenticed using the company of Buhler and Lauter in NY. He became a naturalized U.S. resident when he was twenty-five yrs . old. His parents elevated him in Stuttgart, Germany. He previously two pieces within the Robert F. Kennedy Section of Justice Building.