Ferdinand Lugerth

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Ferdinand Lugerth (* 1885 ; † 1915 ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Little is known in the literature about Lugerth's life. He is considered a hardworking young artist who has produced numerous objects. His statuettes are known on the art market.

In 1911 he exhibited a bronze with the title Defense at the anniversary exhibition of the Künstlerhaus Wien . In 1915 he and Adolf Thomas (architect in Vienna) received 1,000 crowns as a prize for a design entitled Ehrenschuld , which they had submitted on the subject of Achilles .

Works (selection)

Lugerth's bronze statuettes are in Art Nouveau style and often show female and male nudes, often with mythological subjects, which he occasionally combined with horse or dog motifs. Other of his works show chryselephantine elements.

  • Diana with her dog
  • tiller
  • Swordsman
  • Archer
  • Gladiator with whip
  • Brunhilde on horseback with Siegfried
  • Man with scythe over his shoulder
  • Tennis player
  • Artemis instructs a student in archery
  • Girl in Biedermeier dress
  • Naked boy reading , pair of bookends
  • Nude with a harp

literature

  • Harold Berman: Bronzes; Sculptors & Founders, 1800-1930 . Volume 2, Abage, 1976, pp. 370, 469, 478.
  • Christoph Neumayer, Erwin A. Schmidl: The emperors Bosniak's. The Bosnian-Herzegovinian troops in the kuk army. History and uniforms 1878 to 1918 . Militaria, 2008, pp. 148, 149.
  • Paul Pfisterer, Claire Pfisterer: Signature Lexicon . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 3-11082-446-9 , p. 871.

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Lugerth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ The available literature and numerous websites name 1885–1915 as Lugerth's life data. However, on May 30, 1919 , the Österreichische Forst-Zeitung reported on the death of Oskar Simonys on April 6, 1915, in whose honor a grave monument made by Ferdinand Lugerth was erected on the Gersthofer cemetery. In addition, on October 21, 1929 , the Reichspost reported the unveiling of a monument created by Ferdinand Lugerth on October 24, 1929 in honor of the Bosnian-Hercegovinian Infantry Regiment No. 1 in the Vienna Army Museum. In both cases it is not mentioned when the artworks were designed or made by Lugerth. The Catalogs of Sales , Volume 244, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles 1979 on p. 550 locates Lugerth's active period between 1885 and 1910.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bronze by Ferdinand Lugerth: 1909, solid cast . In: ZDF , Bares für Rares , objects from December 18, 2018.
  2. ^ Anniversary exhibition Künstlerhaus Vienna: 1861-1911 . 1911, p. 30.
  3. ↑ Arthur von Scala, Franz Ritter (Ed.): Arts and crafts. Monthly published by the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, issue 18, Artaria and Company, Vienna 1915, p. 517.
  4. ^ Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects. Edition 67, Vienna 1915, p. 649.
  5. ^ Karl Emil Otto Fritsch, Friedrich Wilhelm Busing: Deutsche Bau-Zeitung. Volume 49, Issue 2, Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations, commissioned by Carl Beelitz, 1915, p. XIV.
personal data
SURNAME Lugerth, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1885
DATE OF DEATH 1915