Cemetery Monuments
Like many of the successful sculptors of his day, Schuler created quite a few cemetery memorials. Many of these sculptures are life-sized or even larger than life-sized bronze human figures. Often the figures sit or sprawl across the tombstones in an attitude of grief, nostalgia, pensiveness, or anguish, like fellow mourners at the grave, or ghosts sociably mingling with the living, instead of being perched neatly on pedestals. The Riggs memorial, shown at right, is a good example. The Lanier monument pictured above, while not being a cemetery sculpture, also exemplifies Schuler's knack for presenting figures in this way. Most of the cemetery pieces are located in and around Baltimore. They include:
- Key Memorial, Cathedral Cemetery
- Hinrich Memorial, Druid Ridge Cemetery
- Gail Memorial, Druid Ridge Cemetery
- Schmidt Memorial, Druid Ridge Cemetery
- Wagner-Lawyer Memorial, Druid Ridge Cemetery
- Coates Memorial, Druid Ridge Cemetery
- Baetjer Memorial, Greenmount Cemetery
- Hilken Memorial, Greenmount Cemetery
- Maulsby Memorial, Greenmount Cemetery
- Riggs Memorial, Greenmount Cemetery
- Mendels Memorial, Hebrew Cemetery
- Oppenheim Memorial, Hebrew Cemetery
- Krug Memorial, Loudon Park Cemetery
- Husted Memorial, Loudon Park Cemetery
- Nitze Memorial, Loudon Park Cemetery
- Kaiser Memorial, Loudon Park Cemetery
- Newcomes Memorial, Woodlawn Cemetery
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