Moses Jacob Ezekiel
Confederate Army soldier
Died when: 72 years 150 days (868 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Moses Jacob Ezekiel, also known as Moses "Ritter von" Ezekiel (October 28, 1844 – March 27, 1917), was an American sculptor who lived and worked in Rome for the majority of his career.
Ezekiel was "the first American-born Jewish artist to receive international acclaim".He was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute and served on the Confederate side in the American Civil War, including at the Battle of New Market.
He is the only well-known sculptor to have seen action in the Civil War.After the war, he completed his degree at VMI, and a few years later went to Berlin, where he studied at the Prussian Academy of Art.
He moved to Rome, where he lived and worked most of his life, selling his works internationally, including as commissions in the United States.
He has been described as a "Confederate expatriate" and a "proud Southerner", and the Confederate battle flag hung in his Rome studio for 40 years.
The most famous of his monuments is the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, which he thought of as the "crowning achievement of his career."
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