Hans Bitterlich
Illustration — Hans Bitterlich (c. 1920) • Illustration — The Empress Elisabeth Monument Hans Bitterlich (28 April 1860, Vienna - 5 August 1949, Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor.
Hans Bitterlich
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- Born
- 1860 · Vienna.
- Died
- 1949 · Vienna.
- Nationality
- Austria
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Honours
- Goethe Medal for Art and Science
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Illustration — Hans Bitterlich (c. 1920) • Illustration — The Empress Elisabeth Monument Hans Bitterlich (28 April 1860, Vienna - 5 August 1949, Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor.
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Hans Bitterlich (1860–1949) was an Austrian sculptor. The sculptor was born and died in Vienna. Hans Bitterlich worked in Italy. The sculptor received Goethe Medal for Art and Science.
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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 district (1900), and the monument to Empress Elisabeth in the Volksgarten, both with an architectural framework by Friedrich Ohmann. 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. He was interred in the Wiener Zentralfriedhof in a Gewidmete Gräber der Stadt Wien (Dedicated Grave).
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Hans Bitterlich was born on 28 April 1860.
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- 1."Kaiserin Elisabeth-Denkmal in Wien" from the Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt, 31 December 1903
- 2.S. Fischer. Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945. p. 51. 2009. 978-3-596-17153-8.
- 3.Grabstelle Hans Bitterlich , Wien, Zentralfriedhof, Gruppe 32, Gruppe Erweiterung A, Nr. 51.
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