# Henry Hering > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Henry_Hering > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Henry_Hering.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hering > Source revision: 1294668781 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American sculptor (1874–1949)}} {{for-multi|the Canadian Olympic rower|Henry Hering (rower)}} [[Image:HHSeverenceHall.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Pediment on [Severance Hall](/source/Severance_Hall) ]] '''Henry Hering''' (February 15, 1874 – January 15, 1949)Newspaper articles around the country appeared on the 17th, a Monday saying he died on Saturday. Also NYC Death Index on Ancestry. was an American sculptor. ==Early career== He was a student of [Augustus Saint-Gaudens](/source/Augustus_Saint-Gaudens) at [Cooper Union](/source/Cooper_Union) and of [Philip Martiny](/source/Philip_Martiny) at the [Art Students League of New York](/source/Art_Students_League_of_New_York). He then went to [Paris](/source/Paris) where he studied at the [École des Beaux-Arts](/source/%C3%89cole_des_Beaux-Arts). ==Later career== Following his return from Paris Hering worked as an assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens until Saint-Gaudens' death in 1907. In 1910, Hering married another long time Saint-Gaudens' assistant, [Elsie Ward](/source/Elsie_Ward), who gave up her independent career as a sculptor, to serve as her husband's assistant. Henry Hering is well known for his work as an architectural sculptor. Much of his work consists of allegorical figures done in the [Beaux-Arts tradition](/source/Beaux-Arts_architecture), although a few of his later works, such as the detailing in [Severance Hall](/source/Severance_Hall) and the [Hope Memorial Bridge](/source/Hope_Memorial_Bridge) in [Cleveland](/source/Cleveland), [Ohio](/source/Ohio), were done in the [Art Deco](/source/Art_Deco) style. In 1928, he was elected into the [National Academy of Design](/source/National_Academy_of_Design) as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1937. His work was also part of the [sculpture event](/source/Art_competitions_at_the_1932_Summer_Olympics) in the [art competition](/source/Art_competitions_at_the_1932_Summer_Olympics) at the [1932 Summer Olympics](/source/1932_Summer_Olympics).{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921811 |title=Henry Hering |work=Olympedia |accessdate=8 August 2020}} Hering is further remembered in relation to the [crash of an American B-25 military airplane](/source/1945_Empire_State_Building_B-25_crash) into New York City's [Empire State Building](/source/Empire_State_Building) on July 28, 1945. The largest sections of the plane remained lodged in the building, or fell directly to the streets below. However, one engine ripped from its wing and traveled some distance away before landing in Hering's top floor penthouse studio, located in a building near the crash. At the time, newspaper coverage of the accident reported that, although the artist was not in his studio at the time, about $75,000 worth of his work was destroyed.{{cite web |url=http://www.withthecommand.com/2002-Jan/NY-empireplane.html |title = With the Command - Better Care and Better Understanding| date=30 April 2022 }} He died in New York City in 1949. ==Legacy and reappraisal== [[File:Guardians of Traffic (30137077771).jpg|thumb|250px|One of Hering's eight 1932 ''Guardians of Traffic'' which stand on either side of the [Hope Memorial Bridge](/source/Hope_Memorial_Bridge) in [Cleveland](/source/Cleveland), [Ohio](/source/Ohio)]] Hering's reputation as a sculptor decreased as [International Modernism](/source/International_Modernism) dispensed with architectural, figurative and allegorical work. As with many other such artists Hering's oeuvre is now being reexamined in a more positive light. The [National Sculpture Society](/source/National_Sculpture_Society) gives out the Henry Hering Award for noteworthy collaboration between sculptor and architect. On July 23, 2021, Cleveland's Major League Baseball franchise announced plans to replace its "Indians" nickname with the "Guardians", taking inspiration from Hering's eight monumental ''Guardians of Traffic'' statues on [Hope Memorial Bridge](/source/Hope_Memorial_Bridge).{{cite news|last=Bell|first=Mandy|title=New for '22: Meet the Cleveland Guardians|url=https://www.mlb.com/news/cleveland-indians-change-name-to-guardians|publisher=[MLB Advanced Media](/source/MLB_Advanced_Media)|website=[MLB.com](/source/MLB.com)|date=July 23, 2021|access-date=July 24, 2021|language=en-US}}{{cite news|last=Hoynes|first=Paul|title=Cleveland Indians choose Guardians as new team name|url=https://www.cleveland.com/tribe/2021/07/cleveland-indians-choose-guardians-as-new-team-name.html|newspaper=[The Plain Dealer](/source/The_Plain_Dealer)|language=en|date=July 23, 2021|access-date=July 24, 2021}} ==Notable public works== [[File:Marquette Park statue.jpg|thumb|Hering's ''Pere Marquette'' statue in [Marquette Park](/source/Marquette_Park_(Gary)), Gary]] [[File:Regeneration Henry Hering.jpg|thumb|upright|The [relief](/source/relief) sculpture ''Regeneration'' on the side of a bridgehouse of the [DuSable Bridge](/source/DuSable_Bridge) in Chicago]] *''Science, Research, Record,'' and ''The Dissemination of Knowledge'', [Field Museum of Natural History](/source/Field_Museum_of_Natural_History), 1917{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4348144#page/174/mode/1up|title=Henry Hering and the Case of the Missing Maidens|last=Walsten|first=David M.|date=1989|website=Biodiversity Heritage Library|volume=60 |archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=April 17, 2020}} *''Energy in Repose'', [Federal Reserve Bank](/source/Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_Cleveland), [Cleveland, Ohio](/source/Cleveland%2C_Ohio), 1923 * ''Day'' and ''Night'', Amtrak [Chicago Union Station](/source/Chicago_Union_Station), Chicago, Illinois, 1925 http://www.thechicagoloop.org/s.usta.figu.00000.html * ''Defense''{{cite web|title=Defense (sculpture)|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=128667N0QH558.21019&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!7983~!20&ri=1&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Defense&index=.TW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=1|work=Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=October 9, 2010}} and ''Regeneration'',{{cite web|title=Regeneration (sculpture)|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=ND8J670178268.21029&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!8028~!1&ri=1&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Regeneration&index=.TW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=1|work=Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=October 9, 2010}} on the southern bridgehouses of the [DuSable Bridge](/source/DuSable_Bridge), Chicago, Illinois, 1928 * ''[Pro Patria](/source/Pro_Patria_(sculpture))'' [Indiana War Memorial](/source/Indiana_World_War_Memorial_Plaza), [Indianapolis, Indiana](/source/Indianapolis%2C_Indiana), 1929, [Walker & Weeks](/source/Walker_%26_Weeks). architects. This male nude was the largest bronze statue to have been cast in America at that time. A lively interest in Hering's work still exists; a version standing 33½" high was auctioned late in 2007 for $9,000.{{cite web|title=Henry Hering |url=http://www.ragoarts.com/results/?p=search&q=henry+hering |work=Fine Art May 2007 |publisher=Rago Arts and Auction Center |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715151730/http://www.ragoarts.com/results/?p=search&q=henry+hering |archivedate=2011-07-15 }} * ''[Pere Marquette](/source/Jacques_Marquette)'', Marquette Park, [Gary, Indiana](/source/Gary%2C_Indiana), 1932 *''The Guardians of Traffic'' sculptures adorning the [Hope Memorial Bridge](/source/Hope_Memorial_Bridge), Cleveland, 1932 * ''[Abraham Lincoln](/source/Abraham_Lincoln)'', University Park, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1934 * ''Peace'', Peace Gardens, Cleveland, Ohio, 1936 ==References== ==General references== * Bach, Ira, editor, ''Chicago's Famous Buildings'', University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1980 * Johannesen, Eric, ''A Cleveland Legacy: The Architecture of Walker and Weeks'', Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1999 * Kvaran and Lockley, ''A Guide to Architectural Sculpture in America'', unpublished manuscript * National Sculpture Society, ''Contemporary American Sculpture 1929'', National Sculpture Society, New York, NY 1929 * Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, ''Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers'', Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 * Proske, Beatrice Gilman, ''Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture'', Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968 ==External links== *{{Commonscat-inline}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hering, Henry}} Category:1874 births Category:1949 deaths Category:Art Students League of New York alumni Category:American architectural sculptors Category:American male sculptors Category:American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts Category:Sculptors from New York City Category:Cooper Union alumni Category:20th-century American sculptors Category:20th-century American male artists Category:National Academy of Design members Category:National Sculpture Society members Category:Sculptors from New York (state) Category:Art competitors at the 1932 Summer Olympics --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Henry Hering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hering) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hering?action=history)). 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