"I am Welsh by ancestry, German by birth, an American by adoption, and Southern by choice."
-Steffen Thomas

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