Anton Grath

Anton Grath (born October 18, 1881 in Vienna ; † April 10, 1956 there ) was an Austrian sculptor and medalist .

Life

Anton Grath was a student of Anton Brenek at the Vienna State Trade School . Then he was accepted into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , where Edmund von Hellmer and Hans Bitterlich were his teachers. Subsequently, Grath became a master student of Carl Kundmann and Rudolf Marschall . Study trips took Grath to Berlin , Zurich , Moscow and Olomouc . He created numerous large sculptures , especially religious representations; Monuments and portraits as well as medals and plaques . His works show a solid technique and strict stylization.

In 1916 Grath asked to be admitted to the kuk war press quarters (KPQ), but was refused on the grounds that there were already enough sculptors employed in the KPQ. From 1916 to 1920 Grath worked in the schools for the disabled (and school workshops) set up and managed by Hans Spitzy (1872–1956) at the end of 1915 and affiliated with the War Orthopedic Hospital ( Reserve Hospital No. 11. Gassergasse 44–46, Vienna- Margareten ).

Works (excerpt)

Works by Anton Grath are now in the collections of the Vienna Museum of Military History and the Austrian Belvedere Gallery .

Statuette Emperor Franz Joseph I , 1911, alloy, 10 × 7.8 × 25.8 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Statuette emperor and invalid , 1915
Relief profile head covered with oak leaves, steel helmet , after 1918, plaster overpainted, 54.5 × 4 × 60 cm, Army History Museum, Vienna
Portrait head Head with steel helmet , after 1918, bronzed plaster cast, 29 × 37 × 60 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Statuette of a half-naked youth , after 1918, plaster painted over, 26 × 16 × 67 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Bronze bust of Friedrich Schiller in Schillerpark, Peraustraße, Villach

literature

Andreas Zajic, Bernhard Frodl, Ilse Krumpöck (Red.): The images in the Army History Museum . Army History Museum, Vienna 2004.
Grath, Anton . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 544 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

↑ Grath, Anton . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 544 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Zajic: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. P. 61 f.
↑ Thomas F. Schneider (Ed.): Erich Maria Remarque. The unknown work. Early prose, works from the estate, letters and diaries. Volume 4: Short prose and poems. First edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-462-02695-X , p. 498.
↑ Louis Obrowsky: Historical consideration of the social medical institutions in Vienna from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the First Republic. Contributions to the modern history of Austria, Volume 21, ISSN 0947-2355 . Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna (inter alia) 2005, p. 105 ff.
↑ Emperor and Invalid. In: Wiener Bilder , No. 27/1916 (XXI. Year), July 2, 1916, p. 10, top left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb

Remarks

↑ The head office should have been in Vienna-Favoriten , Hebbelgasse 1. - See: Invalid schools of (...). In: Lehmann's general housing indicator. Volume 1917. Hölder, Vienna 1917, p. 150, bottom left, online .

personal data
SURNAME	Grath, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	April 10, 1956
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Grath, Anton . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 544 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Zajic: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. P. 61 f.

[3] Thomas F. Schneider (Ed.): Erich Maria Remarque. The unknown work. Early prose, works from the estate, letters and diaries. Volume 4: Short prose and poems. First edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-462-02695-X , p. 498.

[5] Louis Obrowsky: Historical consideration of the social medical institutions in Vienna from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the First Republic. Contributions to the modern history of Austria, Volume 21, ISSN 0947-2355 . Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna (inter alia) 2005, p. 105 ff.

[6] Emperor and Invalid. In: Wiener Bilder , No. 27/1916 (XXI. Year), July 2, 1916, p. 10, top left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb

[4] The head office should have been in Vienna-Favoriten , Hebbelgasse 1. - See: Invalid schools of (...). In: Lehmann's general housing indicator. Volume 1917. Hölder, Vienna 1917, p. 150, bottom left, online .