Karl Sterrer (sculptor)
Karl Sterrer the Elder (born May 25, 1844 in Wels , † October 17, 1918 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor of historicism .
Life
Karl Sterrer belonged to a family of artists: his father Josef Sterrer (1807–1888) was a carpenter and director of an art school, his uncle Franz Sterrer (1818–1901) was a painter, his brother Josef Sterrer (1839–1864) was a lithographer and printer, and the Son Karl Sterrer the Younger (1885–1972) painter and graphic artist.
Karl Sterrer first learned from 1858 to 1868 with Ferdinand Scheck in Linz , before he went to Vienna and continued his education there from 1868–1870 with Johann Schindler and 1870–1876 with the sculptor Franz Melnitzky . He was also a guest student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . In 1886 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus ; he was also a member of the Albrecht Dürer Association. In later years, Sterrer shared a studio with Johann Schindler. After his death he was buried in the Baumgartner Friedhof .
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Karl Sterrer was a typical representative of historicist art. At the time of the expansion of the Vienna Ringstrasse zone , he created figure decorations on various monumental buildings, with his most important works for the Parliament and the New Castle . In 1888 he caused a certain stir with his allegorical group of figures, Die Liebe zum Volke , which he created in the image of Crown Princess Stephanie and her daughter, and which Crown Prince Rudolf bought. After government contracts with the end of the expansion of the ring road zone failed to materialize, Sterrer had to hire out restoration work in his final years.
- Artist portraits , Kunsthistorisches Museum , Room XIII, Vienna 1
- Reliefs of the seasons , Neue Burg , Heldenplatz , Vienna 1
- Tacitus , Parliament Building , Rampe, Vienna 1 (1898)
- Triptolemos and Gaius Licinius Stolo , Parliament Building, Vienna 1
- Unity , gable sculpture in the columned hall, Parliament, Vienna 1
- Cicero , Chamber of Deputies, Parliament (1907)
literature
- Ch. Gruber / G. Kalliauer / A. Nierhaus: Sterrer, Karl d. Ä .. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 240.
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| SURNAME | Sterrer, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sterrer the Elder, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor of historicism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | catfish |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1918 |
| Place of death | Vienna |