Jakob Guttmann (sculptor)
Jakob Guttmann (born 1811 in Arad ; died April 28, 1860 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian gunsmith, sculptor and engraver.
life and work
At first Guttmann worked as a gunsmith , while he was also involved in engraving. In 1833 he settled in Vienna, where he devoted himself exclusively to the art of metal cutting. With the support of State Chancellor Prince Metternich , he studied sculpture at the Vienna Academy from 1837 to 1840 . A profile portrait of Josef II , embossed in wax, was awarded a prize as an academy work. A bronze statuette of Baron Salomon Rothschild (1844) won him a scholarship to study in Italy. He lived in Rome from 1845 to autumn 1849. In 1845 he was one of the founders of the German Artists' Association . He later worked in London and Paris, where he became insane in 1857.
His marble bust of Pope Pius IX was created in Rome in 1850 . ; in Arad a funerary monument with a portrait bust for Rabbi Aaron Chorin . Among his numerous portraits there are also a bronze statuette of Baron Anselm Rothschild , a bust and statuette by the writers Adolf Bäuerle and Moritz Gottlieb Saphir (both 1844).
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Guttmann, Jacob . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1860, pp. 48–50 ( digitized version ).
- Adolph Kohut : Famous Israelite Men and Women in Human Cultural History. Volume 1, Leipzig 1901, pp. 313-316 ( digitized version ).
- Művészet 3, 1904, pp. 16–22 (with illus.)
- Janos Szendrei, Gyula Szentiványi: Magyar képzőművészek lexikona . Volume 1, Budapest 1915.
- Heinrich Leporini : Guttmann, Jakob . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 361–362 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 227.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guttmann, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian sculptor and engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arad |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1860 |
| Place of death | Vienna |