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STUDENT LIFE
Published monthly, excepting the summer months, at Lisle, Ill., is written for and about American Students of Czecho-Slovak Ancestry.
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PICTURE ON THE S. L. COVER.
UR cover picture this month presents the latest artistic work of Mario Korbel, the distinguished Czech sculptor, now residing in New York City. He was commissioned to model the statue “Alma Mater” by the Cuban government. It now stands, Mr. Korbel tells us, in front of the new University of Havana, where it was unveiled during the recent Pan-American Conference in Cuba. Mario Korbel whose life reads like a hero-tale-the story of a very young artist who left the comfortable home in the old world to try the rigors and uncertainties of the new is representative of the new spirit among Czecho-Slovak artists. His greatness lies in his wonderful recognition of beauty and strength and in his marvelous skill in transfixing them into marble.
Mr. Korbel was born in Osik, Bohemia, on March 22, 1882. He came to America when only eighteen years old and showed remarkable artistic talent. While yet in his teens, he won first place in a Chicago Fine Arts Exhibit. Three years later he went to Bohemia, Berlin, Munich and Paris, where, in all, he studied for seven years. On his return to America he settled in Chicago, where he became a faculty member of the Chicago Art Institute. Here he modelled the “Karel Jonáš” and the “Beranek” memorials. Later he settled in New York and became a member of the Metropolitan Museum Sculptor Society and the Architectural League. During the War he served as president of the Czecho-Slovak Art club which was founded by Milan Stefanik. On the latter’s request, he visited Cuba during the War and secured recognition of Czecho-Slovakia’s independence from the Cuban President, Mario G. Menscal. Hence Cuba not only recognized Czecho-Slovakia as a sovereign state, but also conferred the honor upon a Czech sculptor to model the statue “Alma Mater” to adorn the home of those of her people who seek a higher education.