Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, Hillsbobo, Ohio

Caspar Buberl, American sculptor, born in 1834 in Königsberg, Bohemia, (now Kynsperk nad Ohrí in the Czech Republic) and died August 22, 1899 in New York City. As a young man Buberl studied art in Prague and Vienna before immigrating to the United States in 1854. He is best known for his Civil War monuments, for the terra cotta relief panels on the Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio, depicting the various stages of James Garfield's life and for the 1,200 foot long frieze on the Pension Building in Washington D.C. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (605x910, 434 KB) Summary photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran - Soldiers & Sailors Monument, Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio Caspar Buberl Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (605x910, 434 KB) Summary photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran - Soldiers & Sailors Monument, Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio Caspar Buberl Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Bohemia For the place in the USA, see Bohemia, New York. ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Prague (Czech: Praha, see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881) was the 20th (1881) President of the United States, the first left-handed President, and the second U.S. President to be assassinated. ...

Monuments at Gettysburg Battlefield

111th NY Infantry Monument

New York State Monument

• 9th New York Cavalry Monument - dedicated July 1, 1888
• 4th New York Independent Battery - dedicated July 2, 1888
• 5th New York Cavalry Monument - dedicated July 3, 1888
• 126th New York Infantry - dedicated October 3, 1888
• 10th New York Cavalry Monument - dedicated October 9, 1888
• 54th New York Infantry - dedicated July 4, 1890
• 111th New York Infantry Monument - dedicated June 26, 1891
• New York State Monument - dedicated July 2, 1893
• 41st New York Infantry - dedicated July 3, 1893
• 52nd New York Infantry - dedicated July 3, 1893

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (599x900, 87 KB) Summary photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran - 111th NY Infantry Monument, Gettysburg, PA Caspar Buberl Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (599x900, 87 KB) Summary photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran - 111th NY Infantry Monument, Gettysburg, PA Caspar Buberl Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (599x886, 89 KB) Summary photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran - NY State Monument, Gettysburg PA, Caspar Buberl Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (599x886, 89 KB) Summary photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran - NY State Monument, Gettysburg PA, Caspar Buberl Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

Other Civil War Monuments

• Civil War Monument, Manchester, New Hampshire, George Keller, architect, 1879

Death of General Reynolds, detail of NY State Monument

• Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Buffalo, NY, George Keller, architect, 1884
• Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Nashua, New Hampshire, 1889
• Alexandria Confederate Memorial, Alexandria, Virginia, 1889
• A.P. Hill Monument, Richmond, Virginia, 1892
• Howitzer Monument, Richmond, Virginia, 1892

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (899x597, 99 KB) Summary photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran, detail NY Monument, Caspar Buberl Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (899x597, 99 KB) Summary photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran, detail NY Monument, Caspar Buberl Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

Other Memorials and Monuments

• Fulton Memorial, Fulton Park, Brooklyn New York, 1872
• Fireman's Memorial, Church Square Park, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1891
• Confederate Monument, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1893
• Dewey Triumphal Arch, Spanish-American War , New York City, 1899

The Spanish-American War took place in 1898, and resulted in the United States of America gaining control over the former colonies of Spain in the Caribbean and Pacific. ...

Architectural Sculpture

• Columbia Defending Science & Industry, National Museum/Art and Industrias Building, Washington DC., Adolph Cluss, architect, Montgomery Meigs, associate architect , 1881
• Pension Building Frieze, National Building Museum, Washington D.C., Montgomery Meigs, architect, 1883
• Garfield Mausoleum, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, George Keller, architect, 1890
• Hartford Soldiers & Sailors Monument, Hartford, CT, George Keller, architect, 1890

Resources

• Camden, Richard N., Outdoor Sculpture of Ohio, West Summit Press, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 1980

• Craven, Wayne, The Sculpture at Gettysburg, Eastern Acorn Press, Gettysburg, PA 1982

• Gaede, Robert C., and Robert Kalin, Guide to Cleveland Architecture, Cleveland Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Cleveland, Ohio, 1990

• Goode, James M., The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington D.C. 1974

• Hawthorne, Frederick W., Gettysburg: Stories of Men and Monumnets, The Association of Licenced Battleffield Guides, Hanover, PA 1988

• Kuckro, Anne Crofoot, Hartford Architecture, Volume One: Downtown, Hartford Architecture Conservatory, Inc., City of Hartford 1976

• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript

• McDaniel, Joyce L., The Collected Works of Casper Buberl: An Analysis of a Nineteenth Century American Sculptor, MA thesis, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1976

• Ovason, David, The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital, Perennial, New York 2002

Images

Garfield Memorial, Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, 1890, George Keller, architect

Garfield Memorial detail - Garfield, the Educator

Garfield Memorial detail - Garfield, the Civil War Hero

Garfield Memorial detail - Garfield, the Martyred President

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, Hartfort, Connecticut, 1885, George Keller, architect

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, Hartfort, Connecticut, 1885, George Keller, architect