Oswald Hoepfner

K. M. Oswald Hoepfner was an American sculptor noted for his work as an architectural sculptor.

Hoepfner was born in Bromberg, Germany, now in Poland. Oswald received a violin at the age of nine. Before he left Germany he had handwritten thirtyfive pages of violin compositions. He became interested in art early and at agewas apprenticed to a blacksmith. A year later he got a job in Riga, Latvia as a cabin boy and rigger aboard a sailing ship, the Trafalgar, and sailed to America. He arrived in Perth Amboy, New Jersey around 1888 and there jumped ship and began working at the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Company.

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