Richard Kauffungen

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Richard Kauffungen (1888)
Richard Kauffungen (around 1915)

Richard Kauffungen (actually Richard Kauffung ; born June 24, 1854 in Unter Sankt Veit ; † September 29, 1942 in Solothurn ) was an Austrian sculptor of historicism .

Life

Richard Kauffungen was the son of a German drawing teacher. He attended secondary school and then learned from a wood carver. Further years of apprenticeship as sculptors and military service followed. From 1878 to 1880 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Edmund von Hellmer and Carl Kundmann . During this time, Kauffungen was involved in the Hellmers monument to the liberation of the Turks in St. Stephen's Cathedral .

As a freelance sculptor, he worked in Prague for a year in 1882 and was able to travel to Italy on a scholarship . From 1885 he lived again in Vienna, where he received numerous commissions from both private and public sources. In 1887 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus and exhibited in Munich , Berlin and Paris . From 1907 he was a teacher of sculpture at the Vienna Women's Academy , from 1908 he directed this art school for women and girls.

Kauffungen received the Reichel Prize in 1894, the Dobner Prize in 1901 and the City of Vienna Prize of Honor. In 1917 he was appointed professor and, on the occasion of his retirement in 1926, received the Golden Decoration of Honor from the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria .

Kauffungen was married to Sidonia Jähnl. His studio was at Margaretengürtel 23, Vienna 5, the apartment and country house were in Rodaun . In 1940 he moved to Switzerland , where he also died. In 1955 the Kauffungenweg in Vienna- Atzgersdorf was named after him.

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Richard Kauffungen is one of the most important sculptors of historicism in Vienna. He was involved in the design of the Vienna Ringstrasse zone and also created numerous portrait busts and reliefs. He remained attached to this art style even in old age. As head of the Vienna Women's Academy for many years, he played a major role in art education in Austria.

Thucydides, Parliament Building Vienna (1896)
Georg Raphael Donner, Lothringerstraße, Vienna 3 (1904)

Other monuments:

literature

  • Olga Stieglitz: The sculptor Richard Kauffungen (1854-1942): Between the Ringstrasse, the artist house and the women's art school . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-52203-5 ( Readable in Google books ; in detail about the women's art school)
  • Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Volume 19, Leipzig 1999, p. 600

archive

Web links

Commons : Richard Kauffungen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files