biography of Sascha S. SCHNITTMAN (1913-?)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: St. Louis, MO; San Jose, CA

Profession: Sculptor, museum director

Studied: Cooper Union Art School; NAD; BAID; …cole Beaux Artes, Paris, France; Olympio Brindisi; George Grey Barnard; Attilio Piccirilli; Charles Keck; Robert Aitken; Alexandre Sambougnac; Ceasare Stea; Gaetano Cecere.

Exhibited: Pan-Am. Arch. Soc., 1933 (prize); All. Artists Am., 1935, 1936; W.R. Nelson Gal., 1942; Soc. Indep. Artists; 1942 (prize), 1943-44; St. Louis AG, 1942; CAM, St. Louis, 1942 (prize); WMAA, 1943; Chicago AC, 1943; Kansas City AI, 1942 (prize); AIC, 1943 (prize); Indep. Artists, St. Louis, 1941-43; Jr. Lg. Missouri Exh., 1942 (prize).

Member: Russian Sculpture Soc. (life fellow); Am. Acad. Sculptors; …cole Beaux Arts, Paris (hon. life mem.); Soc. Independent Artists; NSS; Am. Inst. Arch. Sculptors

Work: Pan-Am Soc.; AMNH; Dayton Art Inst.; Kansas City Art Inst.; Moscow State Univ., Russia. Commissions: Am. Legion Mon., St. Louis, MO; aluminum figures for War Mem. Stadium, Little Rock, AR; Morgan Horse (life-size bronze), State Vermont, 1967; Martin Luther King, Jr. (heroic mem. portrait bust, four times life size), 1968; fountain figures, Henry Ford Centennial Lib., Dearborn, MI & Darsa Fountain, St. Louis, MO

Comments: Preferred media: marble, bronze. Positions: teacher, Univ. St. Louis; dir. & cur., Triton Mus. Art. Publications: auth./illustr., Anatomy & Dissection for Artists," 1939; auth./illustr., "Plastic Histology," 1940; contrib. architecture magazines.

Sources: WW73; "Sculptor Schnittmann gives Church Valuable Bronzes", San Jose Mercury, Dec. 16, 1971; Leonard Neft, "St. Joseph's Celebration," The Mercury, March 18, 1971; "Bust of Martin Luther King Unveiled at Grace Cathedral," Voice of the People (Feb. 26, 1972); WW47."