Frederick William Sievers

Frederick William Sievers ( born October 26, 1872 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, † 1966 in Richmond, Virginia ) was an American sculptor. He is known for the great Virginia Monument at the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Sievers studied at the academies in Rome and Paris. In 1910 he was awarded the contract for the Virginia memorial on the battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In the same year he opened a studio in Richmond ( Virginia).

The Virginia monument was a great success, and Sievers received in the following years, orders for Civil War monuments, among others in Elmira (New York), Abingdon (Virginia), Leesburg (Virginia), Louisa (Virginia), Pulaski County ( Virginia ) Vicksburg (Mississippi) and portrait busts of Stonewall Jackson and Matthew Fontaine Maury, both on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia.

The Federal State Capitol of Virginia contains four portrait busts of Sievers: the two presidents James Madison and Zachary Taylor, as well as busts of Patrick Henry and Sam Houston.

A memorial plate to him is at his studio: West 43rd Street at Forest Hill Avenue in South Richmond.

  • American sculptor
  • Born in 1872
  • Died in 1966
  • Man
Robert E. Lee Pulaski County (Virginia)
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