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Hans Bitterlich

Austrian sculptor (1860–1949) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hans Bitterlich
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Hans Bitterlich (28 April 1860, Vienna - 5 August 1949, Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor.

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Hans Bitterlich (c. 1920)
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The Empress Elisabeth Monument

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]

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