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Name
Alois Lang
Died
1954
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Alois Lang (1872-1954) was a Master Woodcarver at the American Seating Company, and one of the artists responsible for bringing the medieval art of ecclesiastical carving to life in the United States.
Lang was born in Oberammergau in Bavaria, a town long known for its excellence in wood carving. He was apprenticed to his cousin Andreas Lang around the age of 14 and moved to the United States in 1890 at the age of 19. Lang first found work in Boston carving elaborate mantelpieces for Back Bay families.
In 1903, he moved westward and joined the American Seating Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, moving with the firm to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1927. Lang became well known as a prominent ecclesiastical wood-carver. An article in a 1946 newsletter states that “recently the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters presented him with a special award for his contribution to art in Michigan.”
His carvings can be found in numerous buildings, mostly churches, throughout the United States including:
Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago, Illinois
Christ Church Cathedral, Springfield, Massachusetts (reredos, narthex portal and screen)
Christ Church, Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, La Grange, Illinois (Last Supper, reredos originally installed in Christchurch, Chicago, Illinois)
National Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, Michigan
Christ Church, Boston, Massachusetts
All Saints Church, Pasadena, California
Church of the Incarnation, Great Falls, Montana
Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Lansing, Michigan
Christ Episcopal Church, Ottawa, Illinois
First (Park) Congregational Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Rockford, Illinois
Wicker Park Lutheran Church, Chicago, Illinois
Grosse Pointe Memorial Church, Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Christ Episcopal Cathedral, Salina, Kansas
Hope Church (Reformed Church in America), Holland, Michigan
Zion Evangelical United Church of Christ (Indianapolis, Indiana)
St. Marcus Evangelical & Reformed (United Church of Christ) (St. Louis, Missouri)
St. John's Episcopal Church, Detroit, Michigan
High Street United Methodist Church (Springfield, Ohio)
St. Mark's Episcopal Pro-Cathedral (Hastings, Nebraska)