Bruno Zach

Signature of Professor Tuch alias Bruno Zack

Bruno Zach (born May 6, 1891 in Zhytomyr , Ukraine, Russian Empire ; † February 20, 1945 in Vienna , Austria ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Huntress with Dog , ca.1920

Zach moved to Vienna at a young age, where he studied sculpture under Hans Bitterlich and Josef Müllner at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . The major part of his artistic work was created between 1918 and 1935.

Zack made sculptures out of bronze and chryselephantine , with which he occupied not only sports scenes and animal images but also provocative, sometimes erotic and sadomasochistic subjects. His enamel-painted statuettes in the Art Deco style depict tall, athletic, dominant women who are often provided with stockings, garters and high heels.

He signed his work as Bruno Zach , B. Zach or with pseudonyms such as Professor Tuch , Prof. Tuch or Tuch , K. Salat or SALAT , the latter especially for his oriental-inspired erotica .

Zachs bronzes were handcrafted by the Bergmann foundry , the Argentor works Rust & Hetzel , the Broma Companie and S. Altmann & Co.

Works (selection)

• Stolen Hearts , ca.1930
• Slave Market , 1905
• Kidnapping , 1930
• Girl on Bearskin , 1930
• Connoisseur
• Deer group
• Standing girl in a bathing suit
• chastity
• Dancer with hoop , 1930
• hug
• Oriental lute playing in front of an unclothed young woman , 1920
• Standing young girl with a crop

literature

• Victor Arwas : Art deco sculpture. Academy Editions, 1992. p. 222.
• Harold Berman: Bronzes. Sculptors & founders, 1800-1930. Volume 3. Abage, 1974. p. 552.
• Bryan Catley: Art Deco and Other Figures . Baron Publishing, 1978. p. 155.
• Alastair Duncan : Art Deco Complete. The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s. Thames & Hudson, 2009. ISBN 0-50023-855-3 . P. 98.
• Alastair Duncan: The Encyclopedia of Art Deco. Knickerbocker Press, 1998. ISBN 1-57715-046-5 . Pp. 31, 38, 184.
• Eric Knowles : Art Deco . Shire Collections, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. ISBN 0-74781-521-6 . P. 75.
• Judith Miller  : Miller's Art Deco. Living with the Art Deco Style. Hachette UK, 2016. ISBN 1-78472-278-2 . P. 184.
• Judith Miller: Miller's Field Guide. Art deco. Hachette UK, 2014. ISBN 1-78472-014-3 . P. 151.
• Alberto Shayo : Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club Art Books, 2016. ISBN 1-85149-824-9 . P. 228.

Web links

• Bruno Zach (Austrian, 1891--1945). In: artnet , with pictures of Zach's work.
• Romeo and Juliet in Zhytomyr words . Zach's biography in English. In: Rule of Law Foundation, 2017.