Alonzo Hauser Flagpole Sculpture
Alonzo Hauser Flagpole Sculpture
The flagpole sculpture is located in the Mall, the formal lawn south of Schoolway and west of Broad Street. Alonzo Hauser was commissioned by the Special Skills Division of the U. S. Resettlement Administration to design a flagpole sculpture for Greendale in 1938. Carved of limestone quarried at Currie Park on the north side of Milwaukee and dedicated in 1939, the sculpture displays six figures standing on a raised platform.
The figures represent the people who would build and live in Greendale, and include a laborer with a shovel and another with a sledgehammer, a mother and child, a young woman with a tennis racket, and man in a suit and tie. A bronze plaque on the east face of the sculpture commemorates Hauser and the symbolism of this piece.
Hauser (1909-1988) was born in Wisconsin and studied art at Wisconsin State College of La Crosse (now the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse), the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Art Student’s League of New York. Hauser enjoyed a long career as a culptor and was later an instructor in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota.
The figures represent the people who would build and live in Greendale, and include a laborer with a shovel and another with a sledgehammer, a mother and child, a young woman with a tennis racket, and man in a suit and tie. A bronze plaque on the east face of the sculpture commemorates Hauser and the symbolism of this piece.
Hauser (1909-1988) was born in Wisconsin and studied art at Wisconsin State College of La Crosse (now the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse), the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Art Student’s League of New York. Hauser enjoyed a long career as a culptor and was later an instructor in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota.