Henry Hering
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Henry Hering was an American sculptor who was born New York City on February 15, 1874 and died there on January 17, 1949.
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[edit] Early career
He was a student of Augustus Saint-Gaudens at Cooper Union and of Philip Martiny at the Art Students League. He then went to Paris where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts.
[edit] Later career
Following his return from Paris Hering worked as an assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens until Saint-Gaudens' death in 1907. In 1910 Hering married another long time Saint-Gaudens' assistant, Elsie Ward, who gave up her independent career as a sculptor, to serve as her husband's assistant.
Henry Haring is well known for his work as an architectural sculptor. Although a few of his later works are Art Deco in style, notably the Severance Hall decorations and the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, most of his work consists of allegorical figures in the Beaux-Arts tradition. His reputation as a sculptor decreased as International Modernism dispensed with architectural, figurative and allegorical work. As with many other such artists Hering's oeuvre is now being reexamined in a more positive light.
The National Sculpture Society gives out the Henry Hering Award every year for noteworthy collaboration between sculptor and architect.
[edit] Notable public works
- Energy in Repose, Federal Reserve Bank, Cleveland, Ohio, 1923
- Pro Patria Indiana War Memorial, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1929, Walker & Weeks. architects. This male nude was the largest bronze statue to have been cast in America at that time.
- Pere Marquette, Marquette Park, Gary, Indiana, 1932
- Abraham Lincoln, University Park, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1934
- Peace, Peace Gardens, Cleveland, Ohio, 1936
[edit] Architectural sculpture
- Memory, Peace, Courage, Devotion, for the Yale Civil War memorial, New Haven, Connecticut, 1913
- Relief figures, Federal Reserve Bank Building, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, architects, Kansas City, Missouri, 1919
- Allegorical figures and caryatids for the Field Museum of Natural History, Daniel Burnham and Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, architects, Chicago, Illinois, 1920
- Integrity and Security, Federal Reserve Building, Cleveland, Ohio, 1923
- Defense and Regeneration, pylons on Michigan Avenue Bridge, Chicago, Illinois, 1925
- Law, Science, Religion, Education, Civc Center, Indianapolis, Indiana,
- Indiana War Memorial, Walker & Weeks. architects, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1928-29
- Chicago Civic Opera House Pediment, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, architects, Chicago, Illinois, 1929
- Union Station, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, architects, Chicago, Illinois, 1925
- Severance Hall Pediment, Severance Hall, Walker & Weeks, architects, Cleveland, Ohio, 1931
- Guardians of Traffic, bridge pylons for the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, Walker and Weeks architects, Cleveland, Ohio, 1932. The pylons were designed by Frank Walker and sculpted by Hering.
[edit] References
- Bach, Ira, editor, Chicago's Famous Buildings, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1980
- Johannesen, Eric, A Cleveland Legacy: The Architecture of Walker and Weeks, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1999
- Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Architectural Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript
- National Sculpture Society, Contemporary American Sculpture 1929, National Sculpture Society, New York, NY 1929
- Opitz, Glenn B , Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
- Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968
