Sievers, Frederick William, 1872-1966

LC control no.	n 2010029062
Personal name heading	Sievers, Frederick William, 1872-1966 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Found in	NUCMC data from Thomas Balch Library (Leesburg, Va.) for Leesburg Confederate Monument collection, 1901-1908 (Frederick William Sievers (1872-1966); monument sculptor) Wikipedia, viewed May 7, 2010 (Frederick William Sievers (1872-1966); American sculptor; b. in Fort Wayne, Ind.; moved to Richmond, Va., as a young man, furthering his art studies by attending the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and the Academie Julian in Paris; in 1910 when Sievers was commissioned to create the Virginia Monument at Gettysburg, Pa., he opened a studio in Richmond; following the success of the Virginia Monument at Gettysburg, Sievers sculpted a number of other statues commemorating the Civil War, including the Confederate Monument in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y., and others in Abingdon, Leesburg, Louisa, and Pulaski County, Va.; he further produced monuments to specific Confederate leaders, General Tilghman at Vicksburg, Miss., and General Stonewall Jackson and Matthew Fontaine Maury, both on Monument Avenue in Richmond)