Carl Bernard Bartels
Illustration — Bartels (3rd from right), around the turn of the century Carl Bernard Bartels (1866 – 1955) was a sculptor. Bartels, a wood carver from Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg, moved to Britain after visiting the country during his honeymoon in 1887. In the early years of the twentieth century, while living and working in Harringay, London, Bartels entered and won a national competition to design the liver birds which stand on the top of Walter Aubrey Thomas's Royal Liver Building on the Pier Head in central Liverpool.
Carl Bernard Bartels
- Born
- 1866
- Died
- 1955 · United Kingdom.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Languages
- English
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Born at Stuttgart in 1866, died in United Kingdom in 1955.
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