Isidore Konti

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Isidore Konti, around 1905

Isidore Konti (born July 9, 1862 in Vienna , † January 11, 1938 in New York City , New York ) was an Austrian - American sculptor .

Life

Isidore Konti was born in Vienna to Hungarian parents. In 1878 he began an artistic training at the Imperial Academy in Vienna, where he studied under Edmund Hellmer . In 1886 Konti received a scholarship that allowed him to continue his studies in Rome with a studio in the Villa Strohl-Fern . There he developed a love for Renaissance sculpture . After his return to Austria , Konti worked as an architect .

In the early 1890s, Konti traveled to Chicago for the World Columbian Exposition . Shortly afterwards he became an assistant to Karl Bitter in New York City . In the following years Konti worked in Buffalo , St. Louis and San Francisco .

In 1909, Isidore Konti was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "K" / Konti, Isidore NA 1909 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 29, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org

literature

  • Wayne Craven: Sculpture in America , Thomas Y. Crowell Co, New York (1968)
  • Einar Einarsson Kvaran: Architectural Sculpture in America , unpublished manuscript
  • Mary Jean Smith, The Sculpture of Isidore Konti: 1862-1938 , The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (1974)
  • National Sculpture Society, Exhibition of American Sculpture Catalog, 1923, National Sculpture Society, New York (1923)
  • Beatrice Gilman Proske: Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture , Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina (1968)
  • Lorado Taft : The History of American Sculpture , MacMillan Co., New York, NY (1925)

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personal data
SURNAME Konti, Isidore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1938
Place of death New York City , New York