Johann Rathausky

Johann Rathausky (born November 24, 1858 in Vienna , † July 16, 1912 in Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor .

life and work

Rathausky was a student of Carl Kundmann at the Vienna Academy . His equestrian statuettes and types of soldiers from the Austrian army were acquired by Emperor Franz Joseph for gifts and dedications, and he contributed groups of children to the festival hall of the New Hofburg . On behalf of the Southern Railway Company in Abbazia (Opatija) he created the carrara marble fountain group Helios and Selene (1891) and the bust of the Southern Railway Director Friedrich Julius Schüler (1896 ) as part of a monumental fountain , as well as the bust of the builder at the pass of the Brenner Railway Carl von Etzel (1892), which is now about 500 meters away from the Brenner train station .

Further works are the Adalbert Stifter monuments created in 1902 in Linz and Frymburk nad Vltavou (formerly Friedberg, Bohemia) as well as numerous grave monuments in the Vienna Central Cemetery , such as those of the composers and choirmasters Anton M. Storch († 1887) and Franz Mair (†) 1893), the mausoleum of Freiherr Klein and others. His design (1891) for the Vienna Mozart monument received honorable recognition from the competition.

The unveiling of the monument to the builder of the Tauern Railway, Karl Wurmb in Salzburg (opposite the Mozarteum ), who died in 1907, did not take place until more than a year after the artist's death on October 13, 1913; a better location was discussed in 1999.

Rathausky himself received a grave of honor in the Protestant part of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate 4, Group 2, No. 579).

Other works (excerpt)

• Equestrian statuette Dragoons , 1885, cast bronze , 60 × 27 × 65 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna.

gallery

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  Helios and Selene (1891) for fountain in Abbazia

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  Etzel bust (1892) on the Brenner (Photo 2011)

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  Portrait bust of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (≤1898)

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  Donor Monument (1902) in Linz (Photo 2010)

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  Elisabeth Epitaph for Linz (1903, destroyed 1938)

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  Wurmb statue (1913) in Salzburg (Photo 2008)

literature

• Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 141 f.
• Rathausky, Johann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 31 .
• AK: † Sculptor Hans Rathausky. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, July 17, 1912, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). .
• Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artists Lexicon (5th unchanged edition), Volume 4, Frankfurt am Main: Rütten & Loening 1921, p. 18 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Maria Pötzl-Malikova:  Rathausky Johann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 431 f. (Direct links on p. 431 , p. 432 ).
• Amir Muzur: Opatija - Abbazia. Routes for researchers and the curious. Rijeka: Adamić 2001, ISBN 953-219-004-X ( adamic.hr ( Memento from July 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) PDF of the brochure on the publisher's website)
  Pages 11 (Fig. Helios and Selene fountain), 19– 20 (mention of the statue of Madonna del mare on a promontory, knocked down by a storm in 1956), 25, 28 (fig. Student memorial)

Web links

Commons : Johann Rathausky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ A festival in Abbazia. In: Laibacher Zeitung. No. 217 of September 24, 1891, p. 1809, column 3, urn : nbn: si: DOC-SA2XLQ8W (on the unveiling of the fountain on September 22, 1891).
2. ↑ The Etzel celebration at the Brenner. In: Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects. Volume 44, No. 37 (September 9, 1892), pp. 481–483 ( full text in Google Book Search USA ).
3. ^ Adalbert Stifter as a schoolboy. Ceremony for the unveiling of the Adalbert Stifter memorial in Linz on May 24, 1902. Publishing house of the Stifterdenkmal-Komitees ( full text in the Google book search USA ).
4. ↑ Frymburk nad Vltavou . In: Wikipedia . September 29, 2019 ( wikipedia.org [accessed January 5, 2020]).
5. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Anton Storch. Ehrengrab Zentralfriedhof, Group 0, Row 1, No. 11. In: Art and Culture in Vienna. With photography, accessed June 1, 2019.
6. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Franz Mair. Ehrengrab Zentralfriedhof, Group 0, Row 1, No. 17. In: Art and Culture in Vienna. With photography, accessed June 1, 2019.
7. ^ Exhibition of the competition drafts for the Mozart monument . In: Mittheilungen des KK Austria. Museum of Art and Industry. New episode 6th year, No. 64 (April 1891), p. 351 ( full text in the Google Book Search USA ).
8. ^ The Wurmb monument in Salzburg. In:  Wiener Bilder , October 19, 1913, p. 4 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
9. ↑ Hans Lindenbaum: The railway builder on the car lane. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. . In: Malpractice online. "Looked" section. November 1999 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. .   
10. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Johann Rathausky. Zentralfriedhof, Gate 4, Group 2, No. 579. In: Art and Culture in Vienna. With photography, accessed June 1, 2019.