Alexander Schroth

Alexander Schroth (born January 13, 1828 in Vienna ; † December 16, 1899 ibid) was an Austrian sculptor and plaster sculptor .

Life

Alexander Schroth was the grandson of the sculptor Johann Friedrich Schroth (1736-1803) and the son of the sculptor Johann Baptist Schroth (1789-1857), who worked as a plaster sculptor for the Vienna Art Academy .

Schroth studied sculpture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with interruptions from 1843 to 1850. Afterwards he worked as a plaster former ("art former") at the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry , where he became head of the plaster foundry. He invented a new process that also made it possible to reproduce the color of the original.

His son Moriz (1853–1937) succeeded his father and took over the plaster molding, his son Eugen (1862–1945) became a painter.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schroth, Alexander . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, p. 18 ( digitized version ).
• KL: Schroth, Alexander . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 301 .
• Márk Szerdahelyi: The Viennese sculptor dynasty Schroth. A genealogical overview . In: Adler. Journal of Genealogy and Heraldry 24, 2007/08, p. 77.
• Rainald Franz: The art formator and the cast collection. On the history of the gypsum foundry. The Imperial and Royal Museum of Art and Industry and the role of the Schroth family . In: Simon Weber-Unger (Ed.): Plaster model and photography in the service of art history 1850–1900 . Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02081-8 , pp. 44–52.

Web links

• Alexander Schroth in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna