Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Alois Lang (1872-1954) was a Master Woodcarver at the American Seating Company, and one of the artists responsible for bringing the medieval art of ecclesiastical carving to life in the United States.Lang was born in Oberammergau in Bavaria, a town long known for its excellence in wood carving. He was apprenticed to his cousin Andreas Lang around the age of 14 and moved to the United States in 1890 at the age of 19. Lang first found work in Boston carving elaborate mantelpieces for Back Bay families.In 1903, he moved westward and joined the American Seating Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, moving with the firm to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1927. Lang became well known as a prominent ecclesiastical wood-carver. An article in a 1946 newsletter states that “recently the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters presented him with a special award for his contribution to art in Michigan.”His carvings can be found in numerous buildings, mostly churches, throughout the United States including:Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago, IllinoisChrist Church Cathedral, Springfield, Massachusetts (reredos, narthex portal and screen)Christ Church, Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, MichiganNational Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, MichiganChrist Church, Boston, MassachusettsAll Saints Church, Pasadena, CaliforniaChurch of the Incarnation, Great Falls, MontanaSaint Paul's Episcopal Church, Lansing, MichiganChrist Episcopal Church, Ottawa, IllinoisFirst (Park) Congregational Church, Grand Rapids, MichiganThe Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Rockford, IllinoisWicker Park Lutheran Church, Chicago, IllinoisGrosse Pointe Memorial Church, Grosse Pointe, MichiganChrist Episcopal Cathedral, Salina, Kansas Hope Church (Reformed Church in America), Holland, MichiganZion Evangelical United Church of Christ (Indianapolis, Indiana)St. Marcus Evangelical & Reformed (United Church of Christ) (St. Louis, Missouri)St. John's Episcopal Church, Detroit, MichiganHigh Street United Methodist Church (Springfield, Ohio)"@en }
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- Alois_Lang abstract "Alois Lang (1872-1954) was a Master Woodcarver at the American Seating Company, and one of the artists responsible for bringing the medieval art of ecclesiastical carving to life in the United States.Lang was born in Oberammergau in Bavaria, a town long known for its excellence in wood carving. He was apprenticed to his cousin Andreas Lang around the age of 14 and moved to the United States in 1890 at the age of 19. Lang first found work in Boston carving elaborate mantelpieces for Back Bay families.In 1903, he moved westward and joined the American Seating Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, moving with the firm to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1927. Lang became well known as a prominent ecclesiastical wood-carver. An article in a 1946 newsletter states that “recently the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters presented him with a special award for his contribution to art in Michigan.”His carvings can be found in numerous buildings, mostly churches, throughout the United States including:Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago, IllinoisChrist Church Cathedral, Springfield, Massachusetts (reredos, narthex portal and screen)Christ Church, Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, MichiganNational Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, MichiganChrist Church, Boston, MassachusettsAll Saints Church, Pasadena, CaliforniaChurch of the Incarnation, Great Falls, MontanaSaint Paul's Episcopal Church, Lansing, MichiganChrist Episcopal Church, Ottawa, IllinoisFirst (Park) Congregational Church, Grand Rapids, MichiganThe Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Rockford, IllinoisWicker Park Lutheran Church, Chicago, IllinoisGrosse Pointe Memorial Church, Grosse Pointe, MichiganChrist Episcopal Cathedral, Salina, Kansas Hope Church (Reformed Church in America), Holland, MichiganZion Evangelical United Church of Christ (Indianapolis, Indiana)St. Marcus Evangelical & Reformed (United Church of Christ) (St. Louis, Missouri)St. John's Episcopal Church, Detroit, MichiganHigh Street United Methodist Church (Springfield, Ohio)".
- Q4734238 abstract "Alois Lang (1872-1954) was a Master Woodcarver at the American Seating Company, and one of the artists responsible for bringing the medieval art of ecclesiastical carving to life in the United States.Lang was born in Oberammergau in Bavaria, a town long known for its excellence in wood carving. He was apprenticed to his cousin Andreas Lang around the age of 14 and moved to the United States in 1890 at the age of 19. Lang first found work in Boston carving elaborate mantelpieces for Back Bay families.In 1903, he moved westward and joined the American Seating Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, moving with the firm to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1927. Lang became well known as a prominent ecclesiastical wood-carver. An article in a 1946 newsletter states that “recently the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters presented him with a special award for his contribution to art in Michigan.”His carvings can be found in numerous buildings, mostly churches, throughout the United States including:Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago, IllinoisChrist Church Cathedral, Springfield, Massachusetts (reredos, narthex portal and screen)Christ Church, Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, MichiganNational Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, MichiganChrist Church, Boston, MassachusettsAll Saints Church, Pasadena, CaliforniaChurch of the Incarnation, Great Falls, MontanaSaint Paul's Episcopal Church, Lansing, MichiganChrist Episcopal Church, Ottawa, IllinoisFirst (Park) Congregational Church, Grand Rapids, MichiganThe Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Rockford, IllinoisWicker Park Lutheran Church, Chicago, IllinoisGrosse Pointe Memorial Church, Grosse Pointe, MichiganChrist Episcopal Cathedral, Salina, Kansas Hope Church (Reformed Church in America), Holland, MichiganZion Evangelical United Church of Christ (Indianapolis, Indiana)St. Marcus Evangelical & Reformed (United Church of Christ) (St. Louis, Missouri)St. John's Episcopal Church, Detroit, MichiganHigh Street United Methodist Church (Springfield, Ohio)".