Gustav Siegfried Herrmann

Gustav Siegfried Herrmann (born March 10, 1879 in Reichenberg , Bohemia , † May 18, 1921 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

From 1903 Herrmann can be verified as a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He had his studio in Vienna-Landstrasse .

During the First World War , in 1916, he tried to be accepted as a war sculptor in the Austro-Hungarian war press headquarters . Although he was a lieutenant in the Landsturm and was needed at the front because of the heavy losses suffered by the Austro-Hungarian Army , his application was successful. Subsequently, he was posted to Sofia and Constantinople as a military attaché . In 1917 he received orders to exhibit his works in Leipzig and Berlin , and in 1918 he took part in the opening of the Munich exhibition of the kuk war press quarter. On June 5, 1918 he received the Signum laudis of the Isonzo Army ; on October 18, 1918, he was proposed for the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order with war decoration. On July 24, 1918, he asked for a longer vacation, as he had received the order from Empress Zita to execute a bust of Emperor Charles I , which the Empress described as the "most successful portrait", in marble . The bust in question had previously been exhibited in the Vienna Künstlerhaus .

Gustav Siegfried Herrmann subsequently made a number of portrait busts, plaques and medals , mainly of members of the imperial family , but also of ordinary soldiers during the First World War ; after the war, usually by politicians and artists, such as the tenor Erik Schmedes .

Works (excerpt)

• Statuette of Emperor Karl I , 1916/18, bronze , 11 × 10 × 34 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna

literature

• Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 69 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 69 f.