International studio (53.1914)

Hans Schuler, a Baltimore Sculptor


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BY HANS SCHULER

Hans schuler, a Baltimore
sculptor
BY LILIAN W. NEWLIN
A young artist who makes his way in the world
and by his own efforts gradually overcomes obsta-
cle after obstacle, asserts his independence, makes
felt his individuality, establishes his atelier,
creates an atmosphere about himself and becomes
recognized as a master of his art, demanding and
receiving the respect and approval of the public at
large, must indeed feel a grateful inner pride.
Hans Schuler, a young sculptor who is making
Baltimore his home, has every reason for experi-
encing this satisfaction.
Schuler’s work is strong. His ideas are original,
his conceptions are inspiring, life-like—almost
human! He has made busts of men who have
accomplished big things in life: Major Reed, who
discovered that mosquitoes carried yellow fever;
Ottmar Mergenthaler, who invented the linotype;
the late Dr. Daniel Colt Gilman, former president
of Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Eccleston, John
Franklin Goucher, G. W. Gail and Sir William
Osler.
How human a thing a form or bust, alike in size
and feature to the human being! How much

more life-like the figure moulded in clay, or cast in
marble or bronze, than a portrait painted on a
flat surface! How much more tangible the
rounded, life-size figure!
Hans Schuler was born in Alsace-Lorraine
in 1874, just after the Prussian War. Though of
German parentage and French descent, Mr.
Schuler calls himself an American because he came
to Baltimore when he was but five years old.
While attending the Maryland Institute he studied
every night from the nude with the Charcoal Club.
Rhinehart was a famous sculptor from Mary-
land, who in his youth had a very hard strug-
gle. When he became famous and rich, he de-
cided to leave enough money in trust to supply a
perpetual fund to defray the expenses of Maryland
boys who were sufficiently talented to warrant
sending them abroad to study. At the time of
Rhinehart’s death there were no young sculptors
in Baltimore who were adequately equipped to
profit by this provision. Mr. Walters then added
to this fund and this enabled the trustees to waive
the conditions of the will, and in consequence the
Rhinehart School of Sculpture was established.
This school started with but four students, and
Hans Schuler was one of them. It gives two
scholarships every four years, one to Rome and

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