How does Heurich Mausoleum elucidate its Artist?
Louis Amateis was born in Turin, Italy, on December 13, 1855. Amateis studied architecture at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Art. With national and regional Italian, he also studied in Milan and Paris before moving to New York City in 1883. Working as an architectural sculptor at McKim, Mead, and White, he married his wife, Dora Ballin, in 1889. After getting married, the couple and their four sons moved to Washington, D.C., where he founded the School of Architecture and Fine Arts at what became George Washington University. He served as chairman from 1892 to 1902. He died March 18, 1913, of apoplexy. His son, Edmond, went on to be a prominent sculptor as well.
Amateis has designed work for the United States Capitol and busts of Chester A. Arthur, General Winfield Scott Hancock, General John Logan, Andrew Carnegie among others.
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