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Krimmel, John L. (American painter of German birth, 1786-1821)
John Lewis Krimmel emigrated from his native Germany to Philadelphia in 1810. At first he supported himself by painting portraits and teaching drawing…
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The tomb of Frederick A. Poth (1840-1905) faces that of another Philadelphia brewer, Louis Bergdoll, which it antedates by a decade. Poth came to the…
Hewitt and Hewitt (American architectural firm, 1877-1902)
Built through an endowment from Andrew Carnegie.
Pilz, Vincenz (Austrian sculptor, 1816-1896)
One of a pair; designed for the Imperial Opera House in Vienna; briefly installed on that building, but thought to be out of scale and taken down.…
Pilz, Vincenz (Austrian sculptor, 1816-1896)
One of a pair; designed for the Imperial Opera House in Vienna; briefly installed on that building, but thought to be out of scale and taken down.…
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The tomb of Louis Bergdoll (1825-1894) recalls one of Philadelphia's earliest large-scale German brewers. According to a small bronze plaque at its…
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Grave monument of the Warne family in the form of a classical altar with Ionic columns at the four corners.