Hans Bitterlich

Hans Bitterlich (before 1904)

Empress Elisabeth Monument, Vienna, Volksgarten

Hans Bitterlich (born April 28, 1860 in Vienna ; † August 5, 1949 there ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

The son of the sculptor and history painter Eduard Bitterlich studied with Edmund Hellmer and Kaspar von Zumbusch and was himself a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1901 to 1931 . His best-known works include the Gutenberg monument on Lugeck (1900) and, for the architectural framework designed by Friedrich Ohmann , the monument to Empress Elisabeth in the Volksgarten (1904–1907). In 1943, Bitterlich was awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science . He was listed as an important artist of the Nazi state on Goebbels ' list of God- gifted people.

Bitterlichstrasse in Favoriten has been a reminder of both Hans Bitterlich and his father since 1929 .

He was buried in an honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

literature

• Bitter Hans. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 88.

Web links

Commons : Hans Bitterlich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Hans Bitterlich in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Hedwig Abraham (Red.): Honorary grave of father and son Bitterlich in the Vienna Central Cemetery . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on March 31, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Empress Elisabeth monument in Vienna. In:  Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt , No. 359/1903 (XXXII. Year), December 31, 1903, p. 4 middle. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ Ernst Klee : Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 . 1st edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , pp. 51 .
3. ^ Hans Bitterlich grave site , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 32, Group Extension A, No. 51.