Gorgeous sculptures surrounded the guests who gathered for a reception to honor and celebrate master sculptor Hans Schuler, who served as director of the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1925 to 1951.
Last Friday, friends and family filled the 7 E. Lafayette Ave. studio he built in 1906 to admire more than 100 pieces of his exquisite art while celebrating the studio?s 100th anniversary.
“His descendants are hoping to reintroduce him to Baltimore because there?s a whole generation that?s never heard of him,” said Schuler?s grandson, Frederic Fritz Briggs, who is an instructor at the Schuler School of Fine Arts.
Briggs told us that the four-year school started in 1959 and presently enrolls 25 full-time students.
One thing is for sure. This incredible artist certainly passed on the art gene to his grandchildren, many of whom grew up in Schuler?s Lafayette Avenue house.
Carrying on the legacy are Ann Didusch Schuler, an accomplished painter; Francesca Schuler Guerin, a sculptor; Andrew Schuler Guerin, also a well-known painter and Briggs, whose watercolors are beautiful.
Those taking part in the celebration were super mom and judge Katie O?Malley, MICA?s President Fred Lazarus IV, former students at the Schuler School David Buckley Good, John Brandon Sills, Caroline Abell, Frances Hausner George and Jorge Alberto Gonzalez.
The night was not only to celebrate the Schuler-made monuments that can be found all around Baltimore ? the statue of Gen. Samuel Smith in Federal Hill and the Hopkins monument at Charles and 33rd streets to name two ? but also to celebrate the maker of these remarkable monuments.
The studio will be open to the public from 1 to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
For information, call 410-685-3568.
Fun was the order
Think about this recipe for fun.
Take one part Creig Northrop and the Northrop team, add one part Gus Kalaris and his yummy AXIOS Napa Valley wines, sprinkle in Patty and Tom Buescher?s magnificent abode, and you have the Fourth Annual Howard County Wine Masters Event to benefit The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Co-chairpeople Mary and Randy Marriner and Esther and Tom Price welcomed supporters and sponsors last Saturday, including cute couple Stephanie and Bill Albright of the Albright Foundation and Mammoth Golf, Tim Thomas, who is vice president of marketing at The (Baltimore) Sun, and executive committee members Sharon Akers and Tina and Victor Broccolino.
The foundation raised $245,000.
Anne Boone-Simanski is the social columnist for The Examiner and can be reached at [email protected] or 410-878-6131.
