+++ Richard W. Bock was born in Shloppen, West Prussia on July 16, 1865.  At the age of 4, he emigrated with his family to join relatives in Chicago.  Bock studied at the Mechanic's Institute of Chicago and privately with Frederick Almenraeder.  Both, later, worked at North Western Terra Cotta.  In 1885 he was with  Herter Brothers in New York.    Bock studied in Berlin at Kaiserliche, Konigliche Kunstgewerbe Museum, where he formed a lasting friendship with Karl Bitter and  then continued to Paris 1890.  He studied in  Falguire's Studio at the Ecole des Arts where his classmates included  Bella Pratt, Hermon MacNeil, and  John Flanagan. He travelled in France, Germany, and  Italy.  His long career included work with Solon Beman at the World's Columbian Exposition; with Louis Sullivan at the Auditorium Theater and the Schiller Building; with Dwight Perkins at the Omaha Exposition and with Frank Lloyd Wright at Midway Gardens.  He died on June 29, 1949 from complications caused by advanced Parkinson's disease +++