Rudolf Weyr

Louis Tuaillon is recorded as having studied under Rudolf Weyr. Employment is recorded with TU Wien. Works named in the authority record are Grillparzer monument, Macht zur See and Johannes Brahms Denkmal, Vienna. Work by Rudolf Weyr is recorded in the collections of Belvedere.

He studied under Franz Bauer and Josef Cesar and was employed by the latter for many years. In 1875, he was contracted by Gottfried Semper and Carl Hasenauer to assist them with their work on the Kunsthistorisches Museum. In 1879, under the direction of Hans Makart, he designed table settings and other decorative pieces for the Emperor's Silver Wedding Anniversary. From the late 1880s, he worked alone and created some of the most important figures that adorn the Ringstraße. In his later years, Weyr suffered from arteriosclerosis and died of heart failure induced by pneumonia. He was buried in the Döbling Cemetery. In 1919, a street in Landstraße was named the Weyrgasse in his honor.

• 1884: Gable statues at the Hermesvilla • 1888: Spandrel figures in the windows at the Burgtheater • 1889: Grillparzer Memorial in the Burggarten (with Carl Kundmann); Weyr created the reliefs depicting Grillparzer's dramatic works. • 1890: Relief figures of the Museum's patrons in the dome of the Kunsthistorischen Museum • 1895: Fountain: "Power at Sea" (its counterpart, "Power on the Land" is the work of the sculptor Edmund Hellmer) at the Michaelertrakt in the Hofburg • 1895: Relief of Vasil Levski on his Memorial Sofia, Bulgaria • 1898: Emperor Franz-Josef Memorial in Schwechat • 1905: Memorial to Hans Canon in the Stadtpark • 1907: Fountain in Děčín, Czech Republic • 1908: Memorial to Johannes Brahms in the Karlsplatz