PHILIP MARTINY

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BIOGRAPHY

++++++Philip Martiny was born in Strasbourg, Alsace Lorraine, on may 19, 1858. He studied wood carving at the Ecole Municipale de Dessin Proffessionel in Strasbourg and then worked in Paris at the atelier of sculptor Eugene Dock . In 1878 he emigrated to the United States, where in 1880 he accepted a position as assistant to Augustus Saint Gaudens at the Cornish Studio. He married Minnie Horning in 1881. In 1885 Martiny established his own Studio, which was later relocated to Macdougal Alley in Greenwich Village, New York. Martiny was prolific, maintaining a staff of as many as 20 assistants.

PHILIP MARTINY

Major commissions include work at 1893 Columbian Exposition. Buffalo’s 1901 Pan American Exposition, The 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in portland, and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1907 in St. Louis. Additional work includes the personifications of Asia, Africa, Europe and America at the Library Congress, Washington DC; Confucius at the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, New York City; and, various figures at the Surrogate’s Court, New York City. In Chicago he is most famous for his extant works at the Art Institute of Chicago (formerly the World Auxiliary Congress Building) and the Museum of Science and Industry (formerly the Palace of Fine Arts, World's Columbian Exposition of 1893).

Martiny died in 1927 at his home in New York leaving a wife, eight children.