Mario Petrucci
Mario Antonio Giuseppe Petrucci (born March 25, 1893 in Ferrara , Italy , † August 25, 1972 in Vienna ) was an Italian - Austrian sculptor .
Life
Petrucci, whose father was a master shoemaker and his mother a farmer, went to the roller mill at the age of eleven . He began his career as a decorative sculptor, craftsman and painter in Zurich . He modeled a dolphin fountain for the building of the Swiss Bank Corporation, a fairytale fountain for a villa on Lake Zurich, and grave monuments for cemeteries in Winterthur and Zurich.
When the First World War broke out , he was in Mannheim and then went back to Switzerland, where he worked as a plasterer . In 1920 he came to Vienna and attended Hans Bitterlich's master school at the Academy of Fine Arts . After the war, Petrucci was one of the busiest sculptors in the city of Vienna.
Petrucci died in Vienna on August 25, 1972 at the age of 79. He was buried on September 5, 1972 in the Vienna Central Cemetery in an honorary grave (grave site: Group 13B, Row 13, No. 5).
Works (selection)
- Lassalledenkmal , 1928, Vienna
- Homecoming Memorial , 1948, Leopoldsberg , Vienna
- Portrait of the bust of Ferdinand Hanusch , 1948, at the Monument to the Republic , Vienna's Ringstrasse
- Gänsbrunnen , 1951, at the Freihofsiedlung in Kagran
- Memorial to the firefighters murdered by fascism , Vienna
- Bird drinking fountain , 1953, in the Vienna City Park
- Portrait bust of Anton Hueber , 1953, Hueber-Hof , Quellenstrasse 24B
- Relief Reclining Soldier , 1939/45, etched cast glass, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
Memorial plaques
- At Gumpendorfer Strasse 130 in Vienna, alongside other commemorative plaques designed by Petrucci, there is a medallion created in 1936, which commemorates the typewriter inventor Peter Mitterhofer .
literature
- Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 130.
- Hans Vollmer (ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Leipzig 1931, volume 26, p. 503.
Web links
- Web service of the City of Vienna: Mario Petrucci, the Viennese sculptor from Ferrara, in his sixties
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 130.
- ^ Austria-Forum : Petrucci, Mario ; Retrieved April 4, 2010
- ↑ Petrucci, Mario. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (ed.); Retrieved April 4, 2010
- ^ Vienna cemeteries; Retrieved April 4, 2010
- ↑ At the Freihof. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (ed.); Retrieved April 4, 2010
- ↑ Peter Mitterhofer - inventor of the typewriter, 1822 - 1893 , accessed on August 12, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petrucci, Mario |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Petrucci, Mario Antonio Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-Austrian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1972 |
| Place of death | Vienna |