Edward Ludwig Albert Pausch

George Washington Memorial (1889–91), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Edward Ludwig Albert Pausch (September 30, 1856 – 1931) was a Danish-American sculptor noted for his war memorials.[1]

Life

He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the son of Henry and Annette P. Pausch. The family emigrated to Hartford, Connecticut when he was a child. He apprenticed for eleven years under Carl Conrads in Hartford, beginning at age 14. He worked as an assistant to Domingo Mora in New York City for six years, and with Karl Gerhardt in Hartford for three years. In 1889, he joined sculptor J. G. Hamilton at the Smith Granite Company in Westerly, Rhode Island.

Pausch's most ambitious work, created while at Smith Granite Company, is the George Washington Memorial (1889–91) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A one-and-one-half-lifesize equestrian statue carved from granite, it depicts Washington as a 23-year-old colonel in the French and Indian War.[2] He modeled the head on Houdon's bust.

Smith Granite Company created at least fifty-seven monuments for the Gettysburg Battlefield,[3] and at least sixteen monuments for Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.[4][5] —seven of these have been documented to Pausch. Van Amringe Granite Company (sub-contracting with Smith Granite Company) created six monuments for the Antietam Battlefield[6]—all documented to Pausch.

Pausch opened his own studio in Hartford in 1900. Within hours of President William McKinley's assassination on September 14, 1901, he was summoned from Hartford to Buffalo, New York to make the death mask.[7] He made a plaster cast the following morning, and completed the mask in about a month. He later used it to model a bust of the late president for the Philadelphia Main Post Office (1902), and his McKinley statue (1903–05) in Reading, Pennsylvania.[8]

Pausch settled permanently in Buffalo, opening a studio at Delaware & Delavan Avenues.[9] Among his students were sculptors Robert D. Barr, Stanley Edwards, and William Stephenson.[10] He exhibited at the Albright Art Gallery in 1919.[11]

Pausch married Julia Ellenberger of Hartford in 1878. The spelling of his first name alternates between "Edward" and "Eduard."

Black Aggie

His most infamous work, Black Aggie (1906–07), is an unauthorized near-copy of Augustus Saint-Gaudens's 1891 Adams Memorial. General Felix Agnus was led to believe that he was ordering a cast from Saint-Gaudens's original molds for the Angus family plot in Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Maryland. John Salter, a granite supplier in Connecticut, misled Agnus and hired Pausch to model the freehand bronze copy.[12] Saint-Gaudens's widow sued Salter, and won a court judgment. Pausch's actions were publicly denounced by sculptors such as Karl Bitter and Daniel Chester French, which dealt a serious blow to his professional reputation.[13] The bootleg statue remained in the cemetery, and became the subject of ghost stories and urban legends. Following repeated acts of vandalism, it was removed and donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1967 (as a work by Saint-Gaudens). Deaccessioned, it is now installed in the courtyard between the Cutts-Madison House and the National Courts Building in Washington, D.C.[14]

Selected works

McKinley Memorial (1903–05), City Park, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Soldiers' monuments

Battlefield monuments

26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia Monument (1892), Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

Antietam Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland

References

  1. ↑ "Pausch, Edward Ludwig Albert," The Artists Year Book (Art League Publishing Association, 1905).
  2. ↑ Washington Equestrian Statue, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  3. ↑ Gettysburg National Military Park, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  4. ↑ Chickamauga Battlefield, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  5. ↑ Chattanooga Battlefield, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  6. ↑ Antietam Battlefield, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  7. ↑ "The McKinley Death Mask," The New York Times, November 19, 1901.
  8. ↑ Edward Pausch to F. Edwin Elwell, 15 July 1903, from Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries.
  9. ↑ "Pausch, Eduard L. A.," American Art Directory (1903).
  10. ↑ Thomas A. O'Connell, "The Westerly Project, A Critical Review," from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  11. ↑ Sir Humphry Davy, "Art in Every Day Life." (1919).
  12. ↑ Daniel B. Krinsley, "An Unexpected Rendezvous at the Cosmos Club on Lafayette Square," COSMOS Journal (1998).
  13. ↑ C.J. Mills, The Adams Memorial and American Funerary Sculpture, 1891–1927. University of Maryland: Doctoral Dissertation, 1996, pages 218-19, 223-26.
  14. ↑ John Kelly, "'Black Aggie': D.C. statue cloaked in superstition," The Washington Post, August 18, 2012.
  15. ↑ George Washington Memorial, from SIRIS.
  16. ↑ "A McKinley Monument, Philadelphia," The Monumental News (February 1902), p. 117.
  17. ↑ James Smart, "Found: Missing Bust of President McKinley," The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, February 15, 1971.
  18. ↑ President William McKinley, from SIRIS.
  19. ↑ Agnus Memorial, from SIRIS.
  20. ↑ Bust of Elbert Hubbard, from SIRIS.
  21. ↑ Seneca County Soldiers' Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  22. ↑ Soldiers' Monument, from SIRIS.
  23. ↑ Soldiers' Monument, St. Bernard Cemetery, from Connecticut's Civil War Monuments.
  24. ↑ Soldiers' Memorial Monument, from SIRIS.
  25. ↑ Mecosta County Soldiers' Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  26. ↑ Ypsilante Civil War Memorial, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  27. ↑ Rhode Island Soldiers Home Monument, from SIRIS.
  28. ↑ Guernsey County Soldiers' Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  29. ↑ Broadway Civil War Monument from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  30. ↑ 13th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  31. ↑ 26th PA Emergency Militia Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  32. ↑ 10th Wisconsin Infantry Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  33. ↑ Pennsylvania Chickamauga-Chattanooga Battlefields Commission, Pennsylvania at Chickamauga and Chattanooga (1897), p. 193.
  34. ↑ 3rd Maryland Infantry Monument, from Maryland in the Civil War.
  35. ↑ Ohio State Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  36. ↑ 7th PA Cavalry Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  37. ↑ 12th PA Cavalry Monument, from SIRIS.
  38. ↑ 45th PA Volunteer Infantry Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  39. ↑ 51st PA Volunteer Infantry Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  40. ↑ 125th PA Infantry Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  41. ↑ Durell's Battery PA Artillery Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
  42. ↑ 128th PA Volunteer Infantry Monument, from Babcock-Smith House Museum.
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