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Carl Austin Weiss Sr. (December 6, 1906 – September 8, 1935) was an American physician who allegedly assassinated U.S. Senator Huey Long at the Louisiana State Capitol on September 8, 1935. Career [ edit ]
On September 8, 1935, Huey Long, a United States senator and former Louisiana governor, was fatally shot at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Long was an extremely popular and influential politician at the time, and his death eliminated a possible 1936 presidential bid against Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Leon Charles Weiss (1882–1953) was an architect in the 20th century who designed various public buildings in Louisiana and Mississippi, especially during the 1930s. [1] Many of Weiss's notable designs were commissioned by populist politician Huey Long and financed by the Public Works Administration .
Karl Wilhelm de Hamilton, also Carl Wilhelm de Hamilton, Charles William de Hamilton, or Karel-William Von Hamilton (1668 in Brussels – 23 February 1754 in Augsburg) was a painter born at the end of the Dutch Golden Age. He is best known for his ‘forest-floor’ still life landscapes, game piece still life paintings, and bird paintings.
The Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site, near Montgomery, New York, is one of three sites of an 1801 exhumation of a mastodon which became "the world's first fully articulated prehistoric skeleton". [3] The exhumation was led by artist/scientist Charles Willson Peale, owner of the Philadelphia Museum. [2]
Carry Hauser was born in Vienna [1] as Carl Maria Hauser into the family of a civil servant. He was educated at the Schottengymnasium and the Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, after which he studied at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule [2] under, among others, Adolf Michael Boehm, Anton von Kenner, Alfred Roller and Oskar Strnad.
His father, Carl (1804–1891), was a confectioner. From 1855 to 1858, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe , with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres . In 1858, developed an interest in the Düsseldorf school of painting and went there to continue his studies with Benjamin Vautier . [ 1 ]
In May 1914, Carl Larsson resumed the work on the painting on his own initiative. [9] During 1915, he presented a painted sketch (No. 239), which was largely consistent with the previous painting. The king had been remade based on an oil painting (No. 240) that Larsson had made with a male model named Rydberg in 1914. The king's position was ...