Emil Fuchs (artist)

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"Self-Portrait," 1905, Brooklyn Museum
"Mother's love", approx. 1890–95

Emil Fuchs (born August 9, 1866 in Vienna , † January 13, 1929 in New York ) was an Austrian sculptor , medalist , graphic artist and painter .

Life

Fuchs studied with Viktor Tilgner and Edmund Hellmer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the Berlin Academy with Fritz Schaper and Ernst Herter . He won the Rome Scholarship in 1891 and lived in Rome in the Villa Strohl-Fern from 1892 to 1897 . In 1898 he settled in London and in 1898 exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts . His first solo exhibition took place in 1902 at the Grafton Gallery in London. Fuchs lived in New York from 1905 in the winter and from 1914/15 onwards, where he continued his work until he committed suicide. In 1924 he became an American citizen. His estate ended up in the Brooklyn Museum .

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His work as a sculptor includes groups of sculptures, portrait busts, statuettes and monuments made of marble, bronze and silver. From 1897 he painted in oil, his paintings are mostly portraits, in a style that is strongly influenced by his friend John Singer Sargent . His portraits were very fashionable in Britain around 1900.

Fuchs was hired in 1900 to create some medals minted for Queen Victoria and in 1902 to carry out the coronation medal for Edward VII . He introduced the curved, decorative style for the British medal, which later became popular in Austria and to which he remained true. He also designed the stamps for Edward VII. After 1905, as a Jew and non-British, he no longer received any royal commissions.

Works (selection)

  • "Mother-love" (marble, Brooklyn Museum, ca.1890–95)
  • Monument "The Sisters" (marble; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery)
  • Medal for Queen Victoria with Alexandra as "Princess of Pity" (silver, 1900; London, British Museum)
  • Coronation medal for Edward VII (silver and bronze, 1902).
  • Portrait Sir Joseph Joel Duveen (1903; London, Tate Gallery)
  • "La pensierosa" (1912 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Fonts

  • With Pencil, Brush and Chisel: The Life of an Artist . New York 1925 (autobiography).
  • The Work of Emil Fuchs: illustrates some of his representative paintings, sculpture medals and studies . New York 1921.

literature

  • William Simmons: Emil Fuchs and Etching . In: The Print Connoisseur 1929.
  • Mark Jones: Emil Fuchs in England . In: Medal 6, 1985, pp. 23-29.
  • Barbara A. Baxter: The Beaux-Arts Medal in America . Exhibition catalog, American Numismatic Society, New York 1988.
  • Philip Attwood: Artistic Circles. The Medal in Britain, 1880-1918 . London 1992, pp. 44, 47-48.
  • Henriette Stuchtex: Fox, Emil . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 46, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22786-8 , pp. 40 f.

Web links

Commons : Emil Fuchs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prussian Academy of the Arts (PrAdK 0729). Studio rental in Rome for scholarship holders of the Academy (Villa Strohl-Fern) - reports on work, rent payments, etc. The following scholarship recipients or guests in Rome : Emil Fuchs 1892/93, including applications from Fuchs to continue using the studio with letters of recommendation from the German Ambassador in Rome, Count Solms.
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor, medalist, graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1929
Place of death New York City , United States