International studio (53.1914)

In Memory of Henry Linder

that he had been at work at all on these monu-
ments, since almost invariably he destroyed his
earlier models to recreate a more perfect and more
ideal form.
How closely did our Thomas A. Edison apply
himself in his search for the light which now makes
the hours of night as clear as those of day! How
tirelessly he worked in perfecting the instrument

half-mile distant, set in the midst of a veritable
Garden of Eden, could not tempt him away from
his self-imposed task.
Henry Linder was, in his own way, a man of this
type, and a brief statement of the main facts re-
garding his life and studies will serve to show some
of the influences that conditioned his develop-
ment. He was born September 26, 1854, in Ewen
Street, Brooklyn. His parents were both of Ger-

A MANTELPIECE DESIGN BY HENRY LINDER A MANTELPIECE DESIGN BY HENRY LINDER


that so faithfully reproduces the voice, and will
continue to reproduce it almost to eternity! For
a dozen weeks at a time he never left his labora-
tory; a simple cot was his occasional resting-place,
and he subsisted on the simplest food, which he
sometimes even ignored altogether in his deter-
mination not to allow his mind to be drawn from
his work. Even his palatial home, situated but a

man birth, the father, Valentine Linder, having
been born in Hesse, and the mother, Frederika
Malthan, in Kusel, Rhenish Bavaria. When the
future artist was but a few years old the family
moved to New York, where Linder received his
early instruction in the Twenty-third Street
School. When about fifteen he was apprenticed
to Fisher & Bird, marble workers, but remained

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