Anton Brenek
Anton Brenek (born October 23, 1848 in Brno ( Moravia ), † November 18, 1908 in Baden near Vienna ) was an old Austrian sculptor .
Life
Anton Brenek's father was a sculptor himself, so he worked in his father's studio at a young age . From 1872 Anton received his training at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Otto König , two years later he entered the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , where he graduated from the master school for higher sculpture under Caspar von Zumbusch . Brenek worked with him on his main works, the Beethoven monument and the Maria Theresa monument in Vienna. Not least because of these achievements, Anton Brenek was appointed kk - professor of modeling and drawing at the state trade school in Reichenberg . Brenek taught at this school until 1881, then he was called to Vienna to teach at the state trade school there. In 1905 he retired, but continued to devote himself to his art well into old age.
Works
- Four colossal statues on the facade of the Vienna City Hall
- Monument to Emperor Joseph II in Reichenberg
- Monument to the Silesian President Baron Summer in Opava
- four figural reliefs in Carrara marble for the Vienna Imperial Council building
- Monument to Emperor Joseph II in front of the “German House” in Brno
- Franz Grillparzer monument on the Brno Ringstrasse
- Memorial to the Mayor of Brno Gustav Winterholler there
- two allegorical figures Constantia et Fortitudine in the Vienna Hofburg
- a Victoria embossed in copper at the Neue Burg
- Colossal statue of a Polish soldier from 1683 at the New Castle
- Monument to Emperor Franz Joseph I in Berndorf
- Monument to Constantin Tomaszczuk in Chernivtsi
- Monument to Josef Treitel at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna
- Monument to Josef Maximilian Petzval in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna
- Monument to Emperor Joseph II in Neutitschein
- two colossal groups of children ( holding the Austrian imperial crown ) for the attic of the governor's building in Trieste
- two colossal portal groups for the Austrian pavilion in the anniversary exhibition in Bucharest (1906)
- Statue of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez in the Vienna Künstlerhaus
- two larger than life figures for the portal of the new official building in Karlsbad
- Bronze bust of Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein in the Museum of Military History in Vienna (1882)
literature
- Wilhelm Schram : Brenneck, Anton . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 578-579 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 28 f.
- Walter Krause: The sculpture of the Vienna Ringstrasse from late Romanticism to the turn around 1900. Wiesbaden 1980, p. 163.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 28 f.
- ^ Wilhelm Schram: Brenneck, Anton . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 578-579 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Room I - From the beginnings of the standing army to the end of the 17th century. Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1982, 26 f.
- ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher (Ed.): The Army History Museum in Vienna. Vienna 2000, p. 13.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brenek, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Břenek, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1908 |
| Place of death | Baden near Vienna |