Friedrich Beer

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Friedrich Salomon Beer , also Samuel Friedrich Beer , later Frédéric Beer (born September 1, 1846 in Brno , † October 18, 1912 in Florence ) was an Austro-French sculptor.

Life

Portrait bust Washington Irving, 1885
Bust of the painter Courtois, 1890

Beer, son of a merchant from Proßnitz , was orphaned at an early age and was raised by relatives. He first attended the commercial academy in Proßnitz and then, at the age of 15, apprenticed to a Viennese meerschaum carver. From 1865 to 1870 he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , first with Carl Radnitzky (1818–1901), then with Franz Bauer (1798–1872).

In 1870, at the suggestion of Theophil Hansen, he received the Rome scholarship for his group of figures Achilles and Penthesilea . In Rome he had a free studio in the Palazzo di Venezia available for three years. In 1873 he returned to Vienna, but then settled in Paris in 1875 and initially switched to amusing portraits and statuettes of women in collaboration with the humorist Alfred Grévin . In the 1880s, his children's statuettes were particularly popular, such as the often reproduced depictions of Martin Luther and Albrecht Dürer as children. He also conducted chemical studies and developed various synthetic modeling materials ( Plasta , Beerite ).

In the 1890s he met Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau and created several sculptures with a Zionist theme. In 1902 Beer moved to Florence, where he spent the last decade of his life.

Works (selection)

In the sweat of your brow , also workers' fountain 1906 in Mulhouse (destroyed?)
  • Statue in the sweat of your brow (for a well in Mulhouse )
  • 1912: two bronze sculptures of wrestlers: defense and attack (XXXVII. Exhibition of the Wiener Künstlerhaus)

literature

  • [On Mr. Frederic Beer] . In: The Westminster Review , Volume 138, 1892, pp. 456-459.
  • Friedrich Beer . In: Die Welt , 1898, issue 31 (August 5, 1898), p. 7. ( digitized version )
  • Theodor Zlocisti: Friedrich Beer . In: Ost und West , 1905, No. 2, Sp. 83–94. ( Digitized version )
  • Karl Schwarz : Friedrich Beer (obituary). In: Ost und West , 1913, Issue 7, Col. 529-534. ( Digitized version )
  • Giuseppe Conte Monroy: Vente des oeuvres de Frédéric Beer. Catalog . À l'Atelier Beer, 6, Via Michele di Lando et à la Galerie d'Art, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1913.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Beer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://othes.univie.ac.at/451/1/03-17-2008_9202261.pdf (there p. 178 ff.)
  2. ↑ Berliner Tageblatt of October 7, 1884
  3. ↑ Lost sculpture: "Dürer as a boy" rediscovered. In: Spiegel Online . December 5, 2011, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beer, Friedrich Salomon; Beer, Samuel Friedrich; Beer, Frédéric; Beer, Bedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1912
Place of death Florence