Background
Zettler, Emil Robert was born on March 30, 1878 in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. Son of August and Johanna (Ziller) Zettler.
Zettler, Emil Robert was born on March 30, 1878 in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. Son of August and Johanna (Ziller) Zettler.
Brought to the United States, at age of 4. Educational public schools, Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago.
Royal Academy, Berlin.
Julian Academy, Paris.
Exhibited in Salon, Paris, 1910. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, San Francisco Exposition, 1915. The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago.
Honorary, mention The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago.
Awarded silver medal, Chicago Society Artists. Bronze medal, San Francisco Exposition.
Potter Palmer gold medal, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1916, and Harry A. Frank prize, 1921. Gold medal, Chicago Society Artists, 1923, and of The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Alumni Association, 1925.
Represented in Brooklyn Museum of Fine Arts, Municipal Art Collection, City of Chicago.
Associate-instructor archaeology sculpture and design, 1926-1943. Head School Industrial Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1930-1943. Sculpture member Municipal Art Commm. of Chicago, 1915-1919.
Club: Cliff Dwellers. Designer of official medal for Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, 1933. Received degree of Master of Fine Art, The Art Institute of Chicago of Chicago, 1930.
Home-studio: 521 Brierhill Lane, Deerfield, Illinois.
Married Mary Potter Jurey, September 28, 1922 (died January 19, 1927). Married second, Edythe Louise Flack, July 15, 1931. Children: Gregory Flack, Roger Walford, Peter Emil.