Mario Korbel

Korbel's Black Angel, 1913, Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City.

Mario Joseph Korbel, Czech-American sculptor born in Osik, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) on March 22, 1882 to a clergyman, Joseph Korbel and his wife Katherina Dolezal Korbel. He began studying sculpture in his homeland, continuing his studies after moving to the United States at age 18. He returned to Europe and continued his studies in Berlin, Munich and Paris.^[1]

He was one of a dozen sculptors invited to compete in the Pioneer Woman statue competition in 1927,^[2] which he failed to win.

Korbel was a member of the National Sculpture Society.^[3] He was elected into the National Academy of Design in 1937 as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1944.

He died March 31, 1954.

Architecture and Sculpture, allegorical bronze miniature, 1916

Works

His sculpture can be found at:

• Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut
• Museum of Fine Arts of St Petersburg, St Petersburg, Florida
• Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Fogg Museum. Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Caramoor Rosen House, Katonah, New York
• Cranbrook Educational Community, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Illinois Monument, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Marietta, Georgia
• Racine Heritage Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
• ‘’Black Angel’’, Oakland Cemetery (Iowa City, Iowa), Iowa City, Iowa
• Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
• McPhee Memorial, Denver, Colorado
• Ezekiel W. Cullen Building, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
• Alma Mater statue, Universidad de La Habana, Havana, Cuba (1919)

• Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois
• Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa

as well as several the Czech Republic.

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