Anton Kangel

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Anton Kangel (born March 29, 1825 in Vienna , † October 30, 1902 in Purkersdorf ) was an Austrian sculptor and Viennese local politician.

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Little is known about Anton Kangel's career, but in a directory of the Viennese municipal administration from 1886 he is referred to as a “citizen, academic sculptor and home owner”.

Kangel was involved in the decoration of various monumental buildings in Vienna. Among other things, he worked on the design of the bank and stock exchange building and the credit institution, as well as on the jewelry of the artist house , with which he was busy until November 1867. Kangel was one of the founders and members of the Künstlerhaus; His name can be found on a marble tablet in the Ranftlzimmer of the Künstlerhaus.

In 1873 he showed an ebony coin case at the world exhibition in Vienna , which, however , was commented in the official report on the Vienna world exhibition with the dry words that it, like some of the works by Kangel's Austrian colleagues, "shows only too much the distance [... ], by which the Viennese wood sculptors lagged behind the Florentines and Sienese ”.

For a long time, Kangel was a member of the Vienna City Council and, among other things, was a member of the commission for the construction of the new city hall in Vienna and the commission for the design of the secular celebration of the liberation of Vienna from the Turks. In December 1882, the local council decided to hold a historical exhibition on this subject after the town hall was completed. This exhibition was opened by Emperor Franz Joseph on September 12, 1883 and comprised over 1,300 exhibits from the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna. These objects were later transferred to the municipal collection, from which the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, now called the Vienna Museum , emerged. The secular celebration was supposed to only last until October 15, 1883, but was extended to November 4 due to the large number of visitors.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The municipal administration of the imperial capital and residence city of Vienna ...: Report of the mayor ... 1886, p. 15.
  2. ↑ Wladimir Aichelburg: Das Wiener Künstlerhaus 1861–2001 (=  monographs on the art of Austria in the twentieth century . Volume 1 : The artists' cooperative and its rivals Secession and Hagenbund ). Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85437-189-6 , p. 72 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ Short biography in the general directory of members on wladimir-aichelburg.at
  4. ^ Official report on the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 . Vieweg, 1874, p. 489.
  5. ^ Karl Weiss: Festschrift on the occasion of the completion of the new town hall . Self-published by the municipal council, 1883, p. 6–.
  6. ↑ Veronika Viktória Tóth, The Reception of Bishop Leopold von Kollonitsch in the Ringstrasse Era. Master's thesis Vienna 2011, p. 85 ( othes.univie.ac.at PDF).
  7. ↑ Johanna Witzeling, Johannes Feichtinger, historical exhibition at Vienna City Hall in 1883 , on: tuerkengedaechtnis.oeaw.ac.at
personal data
SURNAME Kangel, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1902
Place of death Purkersdorf