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Adickes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * David Adickes (born 1927), American sculptor * Erich Adickes (1866–1928), German philosopher * Mark Adickes (born 1961), American footballer and physician Other * ''Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.'', a US Supreme Court case {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Adickes
David Pryor Adickes ( ; born January 19, 1927, Huntsville, Texas) is a Modernism, modernist sculptor and painter. His most famous work is the 67-foot tall ''A Tribute to Courage'' statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas. Life and career Adickes was born in Huntsville, Texas on January 19, 1927. In 1949, Adickes travelled to France to study under Fernand Léger. After two years, he returned to Texas and began presenting his work. In 1955, Adickes was commissioned to paint a large historical mural of the city for the then-new Houston Club. That fall, he was hired to teach in the Art Department of the University of Texas at Austin. In 1983, after being a fulltime painter and art instructor for more than two decades, Adickes was commissioned to make his first monumental sculpture. He created the ''Virtuoso (sculpture), Virtuoso'', a 36-foot steel and concrete statue of a string trio. It is displayed in Houston. In 1986, he created ''Cornet (sculpture), Cornet'' as a stage prop fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Adickes
Erich Adickes (29 June 1866, in Lesum – 8 July 1928, in Tübingen) was a German philosopher who wrote many important works on Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) and the Kantian philosophy. Adickes was a critical empiricist (moderate Kantian). Adickes was born in Lesum (now part of Bremen), and died in Tübingen where he had been professor of philosophy since 1904. He studied theology, philosophy, and history at Tübingen, then at Berlin under Friedrich Paulsen (1846–1908), graduating Dr. Phil. with a dissertation titled ''Kants Systematik als systembildender Factor'' (Berlin: Mayer & Müller, 1887). Habilitating at Kiel in 1895, he became a full professor there in 1898. In 1902 he moved to Münster as full professor, then in 1904 succeeded Christoph von Sigwart (1830–1904) at Tübingen. Adickes was intimately familiar with Kant's ''Nachlass'', and exhibited extraordinary scholarship in his contributions to vols. 14–19 of ''Kant's gesammelte Schriften''. In his ''Einleitung in d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Adickes
Mark Stephen Adickes (born April 22, 1961) is an orthopedic surgeon and a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Redskins. Adickes was an All-American offensive lineman at Baylor University and later attended George Mason University and Harvard University Medical School. He is ESPN's NFL injury analyst and is the chief of sports medicine for Baylor College of Medicine. Early life Adickes played high school football at Killeen High School in Killeen, Texas. He attended and played college football at Baylor University, where he was named an All-American. Adickes was inducted into the Baylor Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. Professional career Adickes started his professional football career in the United States Football League (USFL) for the Los Angeles Express in 1984 where he blocked for Steve Young. He was then chosen in the 1984 NFL Supplemental Draft of USFL and CFL Players by the Kansas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
