{"id":4622,"date":"2015-04-06T21:34:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2016-02-09T21:29:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:29:02","slug":"presidential-sculptures-undergo-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2015\/04\/06\/presidential-sculptures-undergo-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential sculptures undergo restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 1888 to 1890, Jacob Fjelde, a Norwegian portraitist and creator of\u00a0public monuments, sculpted busts of Augsburg College Presidents Sven Oftedal\u00a0and Georg Sverdrup. For many years, the sculptures were housed in the College\u2019s\u00a0original Main building and Old Main before being relocated to the Marshall\u00a0Room in Christensen Center. As time passed, the sculptures had become dirty,\u00a0scratched, and damaged. In fact, the bust of Sven Oftedal had even fallen off its\u00a0pedestal, which resulted in a broken nose.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the sculptures were properly restored for the first time in 125\u00a0years. They are now on display in all their glory in Lindell Library. All of this work\u00a0has been supported by the Nydahl Family fund, which was created in 2006 to\u00a0celebrate the history of Augsburg and the Lutheran Free Church on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1888 to 1890, Jacob Fjelde, a Norwegian portraitist and creator of\u00a0public monuments, sculpted busts of Augsburg College Presidents Sven Oftedal\u00a0and Georg Sverdrup. For many years, the sculptures were housed in the College\u2019s\u00a0original Main building and Old Main before being relocated to the Marshall\u00a0Room in Christensen Center. As time passed, the sculptures had become dirty,\u00a0scratched, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-spring-2015"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}