Karoly Alexy

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Karoly Alexy, 1864

Karoly Alexy (also Karl Alexy , * 1816 in Poprad , Kingdom of Hungary , † 1880 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian sculptor .

Life

From 1834 Karoly Alexi attended the Sunday courses of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts as a bronze worker . Subsequently he became a student of the local sculpture class under Josef Klieber . His career began in 1841 when he presented a portrait bust and equestrian statue of Britain's Queen Victoria to the public. Study trips to Germany , France and Italy followed . In the course of the revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire , he sided with the revolutionary Hungarian freedom fighters, which earned him a conviction and three years imprisonment in Pest . After his release, Alexy moved to London , where he initially worked in the studio of William Behnes (1795–1864), but subsequently became self-employed. During this time, the busts of Raphael and his lover Margherita Luti as well as some groups of figures from the East Indian War were created in the Crystal Palace , which caused a sensation and made the artist known. In 1861 Karoly Alexy returned to his native Hungary. During this time he created the colossal marble bust of the Hungarian freedom fighter Count Lajos Batthyány , and he also took on the sculptural decoration of the Budapest redoubt. Subsequently, he taught drawing at the local high school.

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The main works by Karoly Alexy are now in Vienna, London and Hungary. Particularly noteworthy is a series of formerly 16 bronze statuettes depicting the most famous generals since the 15th century . They come from the Viennese creative period and are now in the Army History Museum in Vienna.

His work is characterized by an academic style and shows a naturalism influenced by Rococo .

Works

From the series of formerly 16 statuettes of well-known generals from the 15th century (all bronze, 1844, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna):

literature

  • Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, pp. 15–20.
  • Hans Vollmer : General encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 1. Unchanged reprint. Leipzig 1940, p. 274 f.

Individual evidence

  1. Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 15 f