Austrian sculptor (1860–1949)
Hans Bitterlich (c. 1920) The Empress Elisabeth Monument Hans Bitterlich (28 April 1860, Vienna - 5 August 1949, Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor.
Life and work
His father was the sculptor and history painter , Eduard Bitterlich . He studied with Edmund von Hellmer and Kaspar von Zumbusch , and was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna , from 1901 to 1931.
His best known works include a monument to Gutenberg in the Lugeck [de ] district (1900), and the monument to Empress Elisabeth in the Volksgarten , both with an architectural framework by Friedrich Ohmann .[ 1]
In 1943, he was awarded the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft , and placed on the Gottbegnadeten list of Joseph Goebbels , as an important artist of the Nazi state.[ 2]
He was interred in the Wiener Zentralfriedhof in a Gewidmete Gräber der Stadt Wien [de ] (Dedicated Grave).[ 3]
References
^ "Kaiserin Elisabeth-Denkmal in Wien" from the Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt , 31 December 1903^ Ernst Klee (2009), Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945 (in German) (1. ed.), Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, p. 51, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 ^ Grabstelle Hans Bitterlich Archived 2020-07-20 at the Wayback Machine , Wien, Zentralfriedhof, Gruppe 32, Gruppe Erweiterung A, Nr. 51.
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