Date : 1900
Material : Oak, Limestone
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1878)
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American Art
Element of architecture (Chaire)
Area related
New York City (USA)
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Bitter was one of the foremost architectural sculptors working in the USA at the turn of the century. Trained originally at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vienne, Bitter came to America in 1889.
He owed his early success to the architect, Richard Morris Hunt, who employed him on several projects inculding Hunt's Fifth Avenue façade of the Metropolitan of Art for wich Bitter designed the four allegorical figures and sculptural ornaments in 1889.
The pulpit and choir rail from the All Angels' Church (now demolished), is one of the most beautiful eclesiastical works executed in America.
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