Alfeo Faggi

Italian, (1885–1966)
Born in Florence in 1885, Alfeo Faggi had studied with his father, a fresco painter, and for five years at the Academia Belle Arti until moving to the United States in 1913.
He settled in Chicago and became a noted sculptor in classical style of religious subjects. Inspired by Michelangelo, he created a large Pieta that was placed in the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle in Chicago. St. Francis of Assisi by Faggi is in Wheeling, Illinois. He began a series, Stations of the Cross, commissioned by Mrs. Frank Lillie, who was a patroness but did not finish until after World War I when he was in Woodstock. He returned to Italy from Chicago during World War I to serve in the Army. Going back to Chicago after the War, he met Eva Schutze, a painter and photographer, and shortly after the couple moved to Woodstock, New York they became active members of the art community. Later he married Beatrice Butler and lived in a home and studio he built in the Woodstock area. Alfeo Faggi died in Woodstock, New York on October 17th, 1966.

Source: askArt.