Karl Bitter - Architectural Sculpture

Architectural Sculpture

  • East Doors & Tympanum, Trinity Church, New York, 1891
  • Elements Controlled and Uncontrolled – Administration Building at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893
  • Broad Street Station, Pennsylvania Railroad – Frank Furness architect, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
    • Spirit of Transportation, 1894; now located in 30th Street Station.
    • Pediment over 15th Street, 1894, destroyed.
  • Horace Jayne House – Frank Furness architect, 19th & Delancey Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1895
  • Biltmore Estate – Richard Morris Hunt architect, Asheville, North Carolina, 1895
  • St Paul Building – George B. Post architect, NYC, 1896
    • When this building was demolished in 1958, Bitter's three caryatids ended up at Holliday Park in Indianapolis, Indiana after some debate about sending them to Vienna, Austria.
  • Decorations on the Dewey Arch – New York, 1899
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art – Richard Morris Hunt architect, NYC, 1901; Bitter's models of the Arts were never executed in stone, but the uncarved blocks remain on the Fifth Avenue facade.
  • United States Customs House – Cass Gilbert architect, NYC 1906
  • Cleveland Trust Company – George B. Post architect, Cleveland Ohio, 1907
  • First National Bank – Milton J. Dyer architect, Cleveland Ohio, 1908
  • Cuyahoga County Courthouse – Cleveland Ohio, 1908, 1914
  • Wisconsin State Capitol – George Post architect, Madison Wisconsin 1908, 1910, 1912

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