Fritz Zerritsch the Elder
Fritz Zerritsch (born February 26, 1865 in Vienna ; † November 30, 1938 there ) was an Austrian sculptor .
Life
Zerritsch studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Otto König and then worked for eight years in Viktor Tilgners ' studio . His son Fritz Zerritsch the Younger , born in 1888, worked as a painter. After Tilgner died in 1896, Zerritsch took over his workshop and completed some of Tilgner's unfinished works, including the monument to Hans Makart in Vienna's Stadtpark , which was unveiled on June 13, 1898. Zerritsch lived in the Viennese district of Döbling and lived at Himmelstrasse 33. After his death he was buried in an honorary grave of the city of Vienna at the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 2, number 41). In his honor, the connection route between Kahlenbergerstrasse and Armbrustergasse in Zerritschgasse was named in the Döblingen district of Heiligenstadt .
Works
- Base of the Bruckner Monument in Vienna's City Park (1899)
- Candelabra "Siegfried" or "Steinerner Gast" in front of the Vienna State Opera (1905, lost)
- Lueger memorial at Cobenzl (unveiled on November 5, 1915)
- Ornamental fountain with putti in the Lindenhof in Vienna- Währing (1924)
- Grave monument for Max Josef Beer at the Vienna Central Cemetery (unveiled on October 22, 1911)
- Art Deco bronze "Male Nude" (1925)
- Grave monument for Theodor Leschetitzky at the Vienna Central Cemetery (1926)
- Monument to Adalbert Stifter in the German Library in Leipzig
- Figural jewelry at the Kurhaus Marienbad
- Albert Boehler Monument in Käfenberg
- Bruckner monument in Steyr
- Bust of Archduke Rainer in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna
- Terracotta sculpture "Mother with a basket of fruit and boy" at Severhof in Vienna- Ottakring
Individual evidence
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literature
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 5, Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7
- Thieme & Becker: General Lexicon of Visual Artists, Vol. XXXVI
- Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zerritsch, Fritz the Elder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zerritsch, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1938 |
| Place of death | Vienna |