Erection date: 2006
Angels' Wings by Fred (Fritz) Kormis, sculptor and medalist 1897 - 1986. Born Frankfurt, Germany. Refugee from Nazism to Britain 1936. "A kindly and gentle friend, craftsman and artist." Reg Freeson PC.
Donated to Queen’s Park by Reg Freeson.
NW6, Queen's Park
On our visit the planting around this sculpture was so luxuriant that it was not easy to examine the sculpture nor to photograph it.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Fred Kormis sculpture
Sculptor and medallist. Born Frankfurt, Germany. From the very informative W...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Fred Kormis sculpture
Born in St Pancras as Reginald Yarnitz Freeson. Served in the army in WW2. La...
Sculptor and medallist. Born Frankfurt, Germany. From the very informative W...
When you have a winged character overpowering a dragon - who is it - St Michael or St George? Here we have St Michael. Our confidence c...
In our photo the plaque is lost behind the bramble branches to the right of the right-most panel. We have captured 2 of the c.5 sculpted ...
See the plaque at this site for more details.
Hammarskjold and Hepworth were friends; he owned some of her sculpture including a 1937-8 sandalwood version of Single Form. A 21 foot hi...
Brought to our attention by Londonist whose article doesn't even mention the horse but for some perverse reason focuses on the mid-18th c...
Playwright, author and politician. Born Terence James MacSwiney in Cork. Elected as MP for Mid Cork in 1918, and as Lord Mayor of Cork in 1920. On 12th August 1920, he was arrested by the British f...
Russian-American poet and essayist. US Nobel Prize Laureate. Born Leningrad. Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972, he settled in the USA, aided by W. H. Auden and others. There he taught and was ap...
The rocket landed at 2.35 p.m. Eight people were killed, 117 injured and many houses destroyed or damaged.
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