Funeral services will be hold here on Sunday for the noted Jewish sculptor Enrico Glicenstein, who was killed late Wednesday night when struck by a taxicab as he was crossing the street in the dim-out, near his home in Queens.
Mr. Glicenstein was born in Poland in 1870 and was known as a child prodigy of sculpture in his formative years. For 30 years he lived in Italy and in 1928 he came to this country with his family. Ten years later he returned all his medals to the King of Italy as a protest against the racial laws which had gone into effect there.
Glicenstein is the only sculptor ever to have exhibited jointly with the celebrated Auguste Rodin. He won the Prix de Rome two years in succession and his works have been shown all over Europe and the U.S. Some are in the New York Public Library, the British Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. He has done busts of President Roosevelt, Pope Pius XI, D’Anunzio, Lord Balfour, Paderewski and many other persons of prominence. Mr. Glicenstein also wrote poetry in Hebrew.
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