Vilém Amort
Vilém Amort (born October 7, 1864 in Kunratice ; died September 5, 1913 in Smíchov ) was a Czech sculptor.
Life
Vilém Amort trained as a plasterer in the company of his uncle Alois Amort in Olomouc , where his cousins Václav Amort and Vlastimil Amort also apprenticed. All three became important plasterers in Bohemia.
Amort worked in Prague for various modeling companies and spent two years studying with the sculptor Bohuslav Schnirch . In Prague he made the ornamental facade decorations on the new buildings of the Stadtsparkasse, the Landesbank and the Municipal Museum and sculptures for the Prague Vltava bridge Čechův most . Amort also worked in the provincial towns. In 1892 he received first prize for the design of a Jan Hus monument in Prague.
Amort made marble busts of Czech citizens, such as Cardinal František Schönborn , the poets Jaroslav Vrchlický and Svatopluk Čech and the politician František Ladislav Rieger .
Amort became a member of the artists' associations Umělecká beseda and Jednota umělců výtvarných .
Amort is buried in the Olšany cemeteries .
Design for the Hus memorial, 1892
Relief Jan Hus, Pardubice, 1900
Tomb of Josef Jiří Stankovský (detail), 1897
Reliéf Ježíše Krista, Pardubice, 1905
Lumiere on Čechův most, 1908
literature
- Amort, Vilém . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 3, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-363-00116-9 , p. 283.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amort . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 3, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-363-00116-9 , p. 282 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amort, Vilém |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kunratice |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1913 |
| Place of death | Smíchov |