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1864 Clarendon, New York - 1926 Kabale, Uganda. Known for: Wild animal sculpture, panoramas.
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The following information is from Gene Meier, an art historian from Illinois who specializes in 19th and early 20th century artists who did panoramas, dioramas, and cycloramas. Taxidermy is a part of... Read full biography
The following information is from Gene Meier, an art historian from Illinois who specializes in 19th and early 20th century artists who did panoramas, dioramas, and cycloramas. Taxidermy is a part of this study. Carl Akeley was a taxidermist and sculptor and photographer. Carl Akeley is talked... Read full biography
The following information is from Gene Meier, an art historian from Illinois who specializes in 19th and early 20th century artists who did panoramas, dioramas, and cycloramas. Taxidermy is a part of this study. Carl Akeley was a taxidermist and sculptor and photographer. Carl Akeley is talked about BY EVERYONE. He was the father of modern taxidermy. At one point Akeley worked as taxidermist for the Milwaukee Public Museum, which in the 1880s was across the street from William Wehner's panorama... Read full biography
The following information is from Gene Meier, an art historian from Illinois who specializes in 19th and early 20th century artists who did panoramas, dioramas, and cycloramas. Taxidermy is a part of this study. Carl Akeley was a taxidermist and sculptor and photographer. Carl Akeley is talked about BY EVERYONE. He was the father of modern taxidermy. At one point Akeley worked as taxidermist for the Milwaukee Public Museum, which in the 1880s was across the street from William Wehner's panorama studio. There is a legend that Akeley learned about creating dioramic backgrounds for his taxidermic works from visiting panoramas, especially the two in Milwaukee that were next to one another--Wehner/Heine & Lohr, and Kindt & Gardner ("BATTLE OF... Read full biography
The following information is from Gene Meier, an art historian from Illinois who specializes in 19th and early 20th century artists who did panoramas, dioramas, and cycloramas. Taxidermy is a part of this study. Carl Akeley was a taxidermist and sculptor and photographer. Carl Akeley is talked about BY EVERYONE. He was the father of modern taxidermy. At one point Akeley worked as taxidermist for the Milwaukee Public Museum, which in the 1880s was across the street from William Wehner's panorama studio. There is a legend that Akeley learned about creating dioramic backgrounds for his taxidermic works from visiting panoramas, especially the two in Milwaukee that were next to one another--Wehner/Heine & Lohr, and Kindt & Gardner ("BATTLE OF VICKSBURG"). He also served as taxidermist for the Field Museum in Chicago, where in 1902, his studies of a family of... Read full biography
Carl Ethan Akeley - Artist Info
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Keywords (18)
Art Method
- •Diorama, Museum Display Background
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Bronze
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Africa
Art Association
- •National Sculpture Society
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Animal Specialty
- •Sculpture Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Sculpture Society-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts