"I am Welsh by ancestry, German by birth, an American by adoption,
and Southern by choice."
-Steffen Thomas
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Bio
1906
Born Furth, Germany
1920
Apprenticed as stone carver
1924
completed School of Applied Arts, Nurnberg
1925
entered Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
1927
awarded Master Student status
studied architecture at
studied anatomy at
1929
came to the USA
1933
became an American citizen married Sara Douglass
1939
National Youth Administration teacher
1940-1971
moved from Atlanta to Stone Mountain, GA
raised four children
built house and sculpture garden from 1940-1971
1990
Died
Public Collections
1930's
- Tuskegee Institute, bust of George Washington Carver
- Piedmont Park, Atlanta, “Pioneer Women” plaque
- National Youth Administration, “Plow Boy” Monumental Plaster
1940's
- Georgia State College, bust of Chief Justice Richard B. Russell
- Woody Gap, GA, First Ranger in Georgia, Arthur Woody
- Capitol Building, Atlanta, Senator Hoke Smith plaque
- Tampa FL, “Fishers of Men” Memorial
- University of Georgia, Chancellor Charles M. Snelling
- Scottish Rite Hospital, Decatur, GA, Dr. Michael Hoke plaque
- Capitol Building, Atlanta, GA, bust Charles H. Hertz
- Atlanta, history plaques
- Capitol grounds, Atlanta, GA, Eugene Tallmadge Memorial
- Young Harris College, GA, bust Dr. Joseph A. Sharp
1950's
- Vicksburgh, MS, Alabama Confederate Memorial
- Courthouse, Vienne, GA, bust Senator Walter F. George
- Fulton Nat’l Bank, Atlanta, cast aluminum murals
- West Point, NY, Class of 1915 Monument
- Capitol, Atlanta, bust Governor John M. Slaton
1970's
- Agnes Scott College, Tate, GA, “Mother and Child” marble
- Fulton Co. Courthouse, Atlanta, “Madonna and Child”
- Dekalb, GA, “Bird of Prey”, “Girl on a Motorcycle”
- LaGrange College
- Ty Cobb Museum
- Museum of Arts and Science, Macon, GA
- Atlanta, “Trilon”
- Warm Springs Hospital, Warm Springs, GA, monumental head of FDR
- Museum of History, Montgomery, AL
- Museums of the City of Mobile, Mobile, AL
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