Josef Beyer
Josef Beyer (born February 22, 1843 in Vienna ; † August 21, 1917 there ) was an Austrian sculptor of historicism .
Life
Josef Beyer learned from 1853 in the kk ore foundry with Dominik Fernkorn before he studied with Carl Kundmann at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1874–1877 . Then he went on a trip to Italy with a travel grant. In 1878 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus . After his death he was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 0, Row 0, No. 577).
plant
Josef Beyer was committed to historicism. In the course of the expansion of the Vienna Ringstrasse zone , he created sculptural figure decorations for several monumental buildings.
- Façade figures merchant, printer, justice (1878–1879) and coat of arms, Crown Land Salzburg (1881), City Hall , Vienna 1st district
- Statues Duke Heinrich II. Jasomirgott and Duke Leopold VI. , Town hall, arcade courtyard (1881)
- Attic figures of the legal faculty of criminal, civil, procedural and international law as well as niche figures Empedocles and Demokritos , University , Vienna 1 (1883)
- Attic reliefs Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Salzburg as well as one of the attic figures depicting human qualities and activities , parliament building, hall buildings (1883)
- Hephaestus , Ares and Apollo , Parliament building, grand staircase, Vienna 1 (around 1886)
- Franz Schuh Memorial , University, Arcades, Vienna 1 (1887)
- Grave monument of Rudolf and Ludwig Schürer von Waldheim , Vienna Central Cemetery (1894)
- Allegory of Emperor Franz Joseph's motto , Hofburg , Michaelertrakt, Kleines Oktogon, Vienna 1
- Allegorical Figures Power and Law , Government and Presidential Palace, Laibach (around 1896)
- Viktoria (bronze) , Neue Burg , Heldenplatz , Vienna 1 (1897)
- Julius Caesar , Parliament Building, Rampe, Vienna 1 (1900)
- Marriage, Visitation and Death of Mary , reliefs, Church of Maria am Gestade , south portal, Vienna 1 (1898–1899)
- Figures Klemens Maria Hofbauer , Kajetan , Maria Magdalena , Alfons , Archangel Michael , Elisabeth , Philipp Neri , Gerhard Majella , Maria am Gestade church, south portal, Vienna 1 (1900–1901)
- Reliefs on the grave monument of Wilhelm Kuffner , Döblinger Friedhof , Vienna 19 (1902)
- Anton Dominik von Fernkorn grave monument , Vienna Central Cemetery (1908)
literature
- Beyer, Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 80.
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Beyer Josef. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , pp. 355-356 ( digitized version ).
Web links
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beyer, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor of historicism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1917 |
| Place of death | Vienna |