Word: diederich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Hunt Diederich started first to be a painter, put in several years producing sentimental canvases in the Barbizon manner. Hunt Diederich achieved his first popular success with a 15-ft. bronze of two gamboling greyhounds. It won a mention at the Paris Autumn Salon, much notice in the press, was promptly bought by Robert de Rothschild...
...other copies of the Greyhounds caused Sculptor Diederich a little embarrassment. One was sold to a Turk who was furious to discover that the bronze was hollow. The other remained in Diederich's studio in New York for years. One evening in 1915 Sculptor Diederich gave a farewell party before moving to another studio. About the third round of drinks the problem of the greyhounds and what to do with them seemed very acute. Somebody suddenly remembered that there was in Central Park a vacant pedestal. With great sweating and grunting the entire party loaded the greyhounds into...
From the greyhound incident Hunt Diederich's reputation blossomed quickly. Followed a series of commissions for animal sculpture of all sorts from fire screens to weather vanes. His wrought-iron silhouets of horses and riders became world-known. At the height of his popularity eight years ago Hunt Diederich fell off a scaffolding in Germany, smashed his right leg. It became infected. Doctors wished to amputate but Sculptor Diederich stubbornly refused to let them, traveled in agony from one hospital to another. Few months ago the first real progress came with the application of sterile maggots to the open...
...maggots were a nuisance at first," says Sculptor Diederich last week. "They got all over the bedclothes and all over my trousers, until I found a way to keep them where they belonged...
Crawling with maggots and bursting with new projects, last week Hunt Diederich was able to walk and work again, was busy constructing a trailer for a trip to Mexico, planning to take up painting after 25 years...