, American sculptor, born in 1834 in Königsberg, Bohemia , (now Kynsperk nad Ohrí in the Czech Republic ) and died August 22 1899 in New York City. As a young man Buberl studied art in Prague and Vienna before immigrating to the United States in 1854. He is best known for his Civil War monuments, for the terra cotta relief panels on the Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio, depicting the various stages of James Garfield 's life and for the 1,200 foot long frieze on the Pension Building in Washington D.C.
In 1882 Montgomery C. Meigs was chosen to design and construct the new Pension Building, now the National Building Museum , in Washington D. C. and in doing so broke away from the established Greco-Roman models that had been the basis of government buildings in Washington D.C. up until than, and was to continue to be following the Pension Building's completion. Meigs based his design on Italian Renaissance precedents, notably Rome's Palazzo Farnese and Plazzo della Cancelleria.
Included in his design was a 1,200 foot long sculptured frieze executed by Buberl. Since creating a work of sculpture of that size was well out of Meigs' budget he had Buberl create 28 different scenes 69 feet in length which were then mixed and slightly modified to create the continuous 1,200 foot long parade that includes over 1,300 figures. Because of the way that the 28 sections are modified and mixed up, it is only by somewhat careful examination that the frieze reveals its self to be the same figures repeated over and over. The sculpture includes infantry, navy, artillery, cavalry and medical components as well as a good deal of the supply and quartermaster functions, since that was where Meigs served during the Civil War.
Meigs correspondence with Buberl see Joyce L. McDaniel reveal that Meigs insisted that a teamster, "must be a negro, a plantation slave, freed by war." be included in the Quartermaster panel. This figure was ultimately to assume a position in the center, over the west entrance to the building.
- 9th New York Cavalry Monument - dedicated July 1, 1888
- 4th New York Independent Battery - dedicated July 2, 1888
- 5th New York Cavalry Monument - dedicated July 3, 1888
- 126th New York Infantry - dedicated October 3, 1888
- 10th New York Cavalry Monument - dedicated October 9, 1888
- 54th New York Infantry - dedicated July 4, 1890
- 111th New York Infantry Monument - dedicated June 26, 1891
- New York State Monument - dedicated July 2, 1893
- 41st New York Infantry - dedicated July 3, 1893
- 52nd New York Infantry - dedicated July 3, 1893
- Civil War Monument, Manchester, New Hampshire, George Keller, architect, 1879
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Buffalo, NY, George Keller, architect, 1884
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Nashua, New Hampshire, 1889
- Alexandria Confederate Memorial, Alexandria, Virginia, 1889
- A.P. Hill Monument, Richmond, Virginia, 1892
- Howitzer Monument, Richmond, Virginia, 1892
- Fulton Memorial, Fulton Park, Brooklyn New York, 1872
- Fireman's Memorial, Church Square Park, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1891
- Confederate Monument, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1893
- Dewey Triumphal Arch, Spanish-American War , New York City, 1899
- ''Columbia Defending Science & Industry'', National Museum/Art and Industrias Building, Washington D.C., Adolph Cluss, architect, Montgomery Meigs, associate architect , 1881
- Pension Building Frieze, National Building Museum, Washington D.C., Montgomery Meigs, architect, 1883
- Garfield Mausoleum, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, George Keller, architect, 1890
- Hartford Soldiers & Sailors Monument, Hartford, CT, George Keller, architect, 1890
- Camden, Richard N., ''Outdoor Sculpture of Ohio,'' West Summit Press, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 1980
- Craven, Wayne, ''The Sculpture at Gettysburg,'' Eastern Acorn Press, Gettysburg, PA 1982
- Gaede, Robert C., and Robert Kalin, ''Guide to Cleveland Architecture,'' Cleveland Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Cleveland, Ohio, 1990
- Goode, James M., ''The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C.,'' Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington D.C. 1974
- Hawthorne, Frederick W.,'' Gettysburg: Stories of Men and Monumnets,'' The Association of Licenced Battleffield Guides, Hanover, PA 1988
- Kuckro, Anne Crofoot, ''Hartford Architecture, Volume One: Downtown,'' Hartford Architecture Conservatory, Inc., City of Hartford 1976
- Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, ''Architectural Sculpture in America,'' unpublished manuscript
- McDaniel, Joyce L., ''The Collected Works of Caspar Buberl: An Analysis of a Nineteenth Century American Sculptor,'' MA thesis, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1976
- Ovason, David, ''The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital,'' Perennial, New York 2002
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