André Roder

Puss in Boots . Terracotta relief in Vienna-Favoriten (1939)

André Roder (born May 31, 1900 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died May 9, 1959 in Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

In 1918 Roder was a student of the painter Berthold Dominik Lippay and the sculptor Paul Paintl . From 1925 to 1930 he studied at the master school for sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Hans Bitterlich . Roder also attended the Vienna Music Academy . In 1928 he received an honorary award from the City of Vienna for the “Mother's Monument” at Baumgartner Friedhof . In 1929 he had his first exhibition and in 1930 he received the master school award. Roder created an angel for the crypt of the former Dr. Karl Lueger Memorial Church . During the Nazi era , he had a special show in the Maximilian Museum in Augsburg in 1943 . In 1945, his state studio and the drafts in it were destroyed by the effects of the war.

In 1950, Roder was commissioned to reconstruct the Bellona fountain, which had been destroyed in the war, in its old form by Lorenzo Mattielli . Roder was a member of the “Cooperative of Fine Artists” and the “German Art Association”.

He was buried at the Baumgartner Friedhof .

The photographer Rudolf Koppitz portrayed Roder at work in 1926.

Sculptures (selection)

Bellona fountain (reconstructed) in Vienna

Friedrich Becke monument in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna
Bellona fountain in Vienna
Tombs for
- Franz Schmidt (composer), Central Cemetery in Vienna
- Wilhelm Kienzl (composer), Central Cemetery in Vienna
- Ferdinand Exl (actor), Innsbruck

literature

Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven : Roder, Andre . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 461 .
Roder, Andre . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 85 .

Web links

Commons : André Roder - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Andre Roder , at Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Individual evidence

^ Grave site Andre Roder , Vienna, Baumgartner Friedhof, Group B, Row 4, No. 1.
↑ By 2030, not public domain photo in Pinterest .

personal data
SURNAME	Roder, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Roder, Andre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	May 9, 1959
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Grave site Andre Roder , Vienna, Baumgartner Friedhof, Group B, Row 4, No. 1.

[2] By 2030, not public domain photo in Pinterest .