Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-30
UPHUEs, GERMAN SCULPTOR.
Tales Told by Him About the Kaiser's
Children.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The statue of Frederick the Great done
by Joseph Uphues. presented to the United
States by the Emperor of Germany will
soon stand in its place In Washington The
artist. Uphues, is the most prominent scuip-
tor in Germany, after Begas, and word
concerning his career will prove that there
are self-made men in Europe as we'll as in
America. He came to Paris to do a bust of
Nine. Marchesi which will be exhibited at
the st. Louis exposition. He was born in
Westphalia, and in his youth carved saints
and madonnas in wood, but one day, think
ing 1t was time he did something in stone,
and not having a cent with which to buy
that hard material, he and friend went to
graveyard by night and stole old
tomb stone that had fallen, whose epitaph
was erased, and chiseled out of 1t little
boy holding a cross. For several years
afterward he carved figures on houses. and
having saved little money. he Travelled
over Holland Germany and Switzerland to
study art and nature. After working for
others for a few years longer, he went to
Berlin, and there, after a successful exami-
nation, entered the Royal Academy OF
Sculpture. Begas, seeing the young man
had talent, took him into his own private
studio to work. Some years ago William III
went to Begas to ask him to make
equestrian statue Of his father, Frederick
III, for Charlottenburg, but Begas said he
had so many orders that he had no time to
do this one. but he had pupil who had
just made fine statue of the Emperor
Frederick, and told the emperor he could
take that. that he Begas) could not do bet
ter William II accepted the statue. and
that was the beginning of the fame OF
Uphues, and the price of the statue en-
abIed the sculptor TO marry, after having
been engaged ten years. Among his great
works are a statue of Won Moltke, for Bas
den which is the largest in the world ever
hewn out of marble; a monument to Schil-
ler to be erected in Wiesbaden; the busts
of other great men of Germany, and num-
erous others. He gained the prize at the
Chicago exhibition with his Archer
statue which added not little to his repu-
tation
Uphues tells some amusing stories of the
emperor's family, of whom he has sculp-
tured the busts. 1t seems that the little
girl who born after the six sons, has
her own way in pretty much all that she
does. Not long ago, when she left the pal
with her governess the guards rolled
the drums and presented arms, and the
child enjoyed this immensely; but one day
her mother was told that her daughter was
treated in royal a manner and she ex-
claimed. ''Why. that is too much for a
child I'll have that stopped" When tho
child saw that the drums were silent when
she passed she was told that her mother
forbade It, and cried VERY well, l shall
tell my father" She Is a chip of the old
block; one day she was in Uphues' studio.
and took the cat in her lap; after while
the great black creature jumped off. and
the artist and his wife tried to fetch the
cat from under chair, but 1t showed fight.
and neither dared to touch it, seeing they
were afraid the little princess jumped from
her chair and took the cat by force into
her arms and sat down with it In her lap.
saying she was not afraid of any cat Jo-
achim the youngest son. while sitting for
his bust, asked the sculptor In what class
of cars he travelled and the sculptor said
second class. but that there were four
classes "Wer,' said Prince Joachim.
when 1 am big and travel alone, | shall
Job he ir1
thought it rather singular in young prince
to wish to travel third class. told the Ell
peror the next time he saw him, and VIII
lam II said II am glad Joachim has ideas
of economy for when all the others ara
provided for don't know what will be left
for him."