J. Otto Schweizer

Jakob Otto Schweizer (March 27, 1863, Zurich - 1955) was a Swiss-American sculptor noted for his work on war memorials.

Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Schweizer enrolled in that city's Industrial Art School in 1879.

[2] He was a member of Philadelphia's German Society of Pennsylvania, and through its connections he obtained his first major commission, a bronze statue of General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (1910–11).

He modeled dozens of busts, bas-reliefs and medallions,[5] and exhibited at the 1916 continuation of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

[6] His All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors (1934), originally placed in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, was relocated to Logan Square in 1994.