Hans Bitterlich

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

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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

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  1. ^ "Kaiserin Elisabeth-Denkmal in Wien" from the Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt, 31 December 1903
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Grabstelle Hans Bitterlich Archived 2020-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, Wien, Zentralfriedhof, Gruppe 32, Gruppe Erweiterung A, Nr. 51.

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