Moses Jacob Ezekiel

MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL (Virginia, United States,1844- Rome, 1917).
"Portrait of Franz Liszt ".
Patinated bronze and wooden base.
Presents foundry stamp; Gladenbeck Bronze Gliesserei.
It has inscription.
Measurements: 17 x 13,5 x 10 cm.
Moses Jacob Ezekiel, also known as Moses "Ritter von" Ezekiel was an American sculptor who lived and worked in Rome for most of his career. He was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute and served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he completed his degree at VMI, and a few years later went to Berlin, where he studied at the Prussian Academy of Art. He then moved to Rome, where he lived and worked most of his life. In Cincinnati he began the study of sculpture at the J. Insco Williams School of Art and in the studio of Thomas Dow Jones. During the Franco-Prussian War, he was a war correspondent for the New York Herald and was arrested and imprisoned "for a time" as a spy for France. He was admitted to the Berlin Society of Artists and, at the age of 29, was the first foreigner to win the Michael Beer Prize in Rome, for a bas-relief entitled Israel. The prize, endowed with $1,000, allowed him to study for two years in Rome.