University of Iowa Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Julius Schmidt
1923 - 2017 Julius Schmidt, Professor Emeritus of Sculpture at the University of Iowa, passed away on June 20, 2017. Julius was born in Stamford, CT, on June 2, 1923. He was the sixth of seven children born to Louis Frank Schmidt and Susie (Koment) Schmidt.
He served in the Navy during World War II. He then earned a B.F.A. degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1953 and for the next two years studied sculpture under Ossip Zadkine in Paris and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in...
