Robert Eberhard Launitz

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Robert Eberhard Launitz (4 November 1806 – 13 December 1870) was a Russian-American sculptor.

Work

He designed the commemorative stone for the State of New York that is installed on the interior walls of the Washington Monument (1853): "The block ordered by the Common Council of 1852, for the Washington Monument, is now finished by the designer, Robert E. Launitz. The block is of white marble, quarried at Lee, Mass., and is larger than any one that has yet been sent to Washington, being eight feet wide, and five feet six inches in height; the weight is about four tons. . . ."

He is responsible for the monument and statue in honor of Casimir Pulaski located in Savannah, Georgia. He executed many funerary monuments in Frankfort Cemetery, including the Kentucky War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1850. He created a monument to General George H. Thomas in Troy, New York, and many other similar examples of his work are found in New York's Greenwood Cemetery.