Edmund Klotz

Edmund Klotz (born December 25, 1855 in Inzing , † June 4, 1929 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

The son of a doctor first learned from his cousin, the sculptor Gottlieb Klotz in Imst , then from Josef Beyrer  in Munich. From 1874/75 he attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , where he studied with Carl Kundmann and Alois Düll and rose to the special school reserved for only a few students. During his studies he worked in Kundmann's studio and also took on his own commissioned work. After several years of study in Rome and Florence , he settled as a sculptor in Vienna in 1893, where he became a member of the Künstlerhaus in 1898 .

Klotz mainly created portrait busts and tombs, later large-figure sculptures in marble and stone, which earned him the nickname "stone block", as opposed to his cousin, the wood carver Hermann Klotz , who was known as the " wood block" . Although he lived in Vienna, he often received orders from his old home in Tyrol. In 1907 he received the first prize for his design of the Speckbacher monument on the Bergisel . The monument, which was planned to be 10 meters high, was never implemented.

Works

Adolf Pichler Monument, Innsbruck

• Marble statue of Joseph Haydn at the Rudolfinum in Prague, 1883
• Marble statue of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Rudolfinum in Prague, 1884
• Grave of the Greil family, Westfriedhof Innsbruck , 1886
• Bust of Karl Beidtel in the foyer of the University of Innsbruck , 1894
• Tomb of the Walde family, Westfriedhof Innsbruck, 1900
• Bust of Bishop Vinzenz Gasser in the parish church of Inzing , 1903
• Design for a Speckbacher monument, Innsbruck, 1907
• Adolf Pichler Monument , Innsbruck, 1909
• High altar and two chandeliers, Donaufelder parish church , Vienna-Floridsdorf, 1911–1914
• Busts of Robert von Zimmermann and Theodor Inama von Sternegg  in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna , 1916/1917

literature

• Klotz, Edmund. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 421.
• Martina Griesser-Stermscheg: Completing the history of art: non-ferrous metal and electric light bulbs. The church furnishings of the Donaufelder Church under the sign of Viennese secessionism . Böhlau, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78155-4 , pp. 95-97 .
• Georg Oberthanner: Edmund Klotz (1855 - 1929) - an important Austrian sculptor from Inzing. In: Dorfzeitung Inzing, issue 4/2002, pp. 22–23 ( PDF; 4.02 MB )
• Georg Oberthanner: The works of the Inzing sculptor Edmund Klotz (1855-1929) (PDF; 1.7 MB)

Web links

Commons : Edmund Klotz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A bust of Bishop Vinzenz Gasser. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , August 17, 1904, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).