Sculptor. He was a Hungarian-born American sculptor, who had the sobriquet of "sculptor of the Confederacy." Born the son of a heroic military man, he attended Saint Sava National College, before he received a scholarship at the Music and Drama Conservatory, studying the violin. His father disapproved of his artistic ambitions; thus, he left his studies. Briefly, he served in the military at the age of twenty. Upon discharge from the military and at his father's request, he became a civil servant while studying sculpturing in his spare time. After his father was impressed with one of his sculptures, he was able to attend and graduating from the Bucharest National University of Arts. This followed with a study trip to Paris and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Austria. He received a Grand Prix for his work, which gave him a grant for his own art studio, and a cash allotment. At the suggestion of the American consult to Austria, he attended the 1893 World's Fair: Columbian Exposition in New York City, and decided to stay in the United States, eventually becoming a naturalized citizen on March 1, 1897. He was commissioned to make models for the ornamentation for the Parthenon building created for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in 1897. He became an acquaintance of the First Lady of the Confederacy, Varina Davis, who opened many opportunities for him while she lived in New York City. In 1899 he created a statue of the President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and the couple's daughter, Winnie Anne, which are on display at their burial sites in Richmond, Virginia. After producing the sculpture of Ben Davis, the 21-year executed Confederate spy, he became the favorite sculptor of Southerners, hence the sobriquet of "sculptor of the Confederacy". The statue, "Hero Boy of the Confederacy," which was dedicated on April 29, 1909, was produced with Davis' relatives being models as there was no photograph of Davis and located on the grounds of the Tennessee Capitol. In 1898 he was one of the eight members who founded the National Arts Club in New York City, serving as the organization first vice president. He married a Kentucky lady, Abigail Rowan Gillim on November 23, 1902 and the couple had two daughters. That same year on a visit to Romania, King Carol I awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Crown as his talent was known in his home country. While in Romania, he created a bust of poet Grigore Alexandrescu and Revolutionary hero, Tudor Vladimirescu. He relocated to St. Louis, Missouri to supervise artistic work for the 1904 World's Fair. Later, he taught at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, was the Director of Chicago School of Fine Arts, and president of the Saint Louis Plastic Artists Association. In 1909 he sculpted for architect Edward Gardner Lewis two gigantic concrete lions, measuring nine feet high by fifteen feet wide and weighting eight tons each, to rest at the top of gates at the entry of University Heights in St. Louis. His lion statues have become historical landmarks. While in St. Louis in 1914, he created "The Ladies of the Confederacy," a granite monument with high-relief bronze of life-size figures of a southern family sending a youth off to war. Other of his principal works include a bust of American poet Edgar Allen Poe, which sold at auction in 2013 for $1,800, and the Romanesque tympanum made of stamped concrete at the University of Virginia. He moved his studio to Washington, D.C. in 1913. He finished the bronze statue of Sequoyah, the Native American recognized for inventing the written alphabet for the Cherokee language, after the death of sculptor Vinnie Ream in 1914. This statue is on exhibit at Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. He created the bas relief on Ream's grave monument at Arlington Cemetery. At the Smithsonian Institution, he gave lectures on Romania and demonstrated Romanian music. He did illustrations for the two-volume book collection "The Roumanians and Their Lands," which were published by the Rumanian Relief Committee of America in 1919. His papers were donated by his daughter to the Smithsonian Institution to be archived. He died from the complications of pneumonia at his residence on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.