The Thiele Family Monument: Vision of a Heavenly Future

Abstract

For over one hundred years a granite lady-angel has stood beside a life-size seated granite businessman while gazing at a carved cherub below. For a century passers-by have pondered this unusual family, immortalized in stone on a Wisconsin cemetery plot.

Keywords

• 3.1
• annette stott
• funerary art
• henry thiele
• lohr & weifenbach
• nineteenth-century art
• sculpture