Zimm, Bruno Louis, 1876-1943
Sculptor
Size: 0.2 Linear feet
Summary: A letter from Karl Bitter with a sketch of a male figure (1908) praises Zimm's relief sculpture at "the League room". Photographs show Zimm, his studio, home, and works of art (ca. 1923-1940), and Hasbrouck Zimm (ca. 1946). Other materials consist of a biographical account written by Zimm's son (1985) and 3 clippings (1907-1982).
Sculptor. Zimm studied art in Paris around 1900, and in New York City with Karl Bitter, later establishing a studio on 59th Street. About 1910, Zimm moved to the Lewis Hollow district of Woodstock, New York. In 1919, he married his second wife, novelist Louise Seymour Hasbrouck. Zimm's sculpture of SACAJAWEA appeared in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis (1904) and a frieze was exhibited in the 1913 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.
The donor, Bruno Hasbrouck Zimm, is Bruno Louis Zimm's son.
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Karl Bitter's letter and 2 clippings are photocopies.
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Bruno Louis Zimm papers, 1907-1985. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
