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Vincenz Pilz (born November 14, 1816 Warnsdorf , † April 26, 1896 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Pilz studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with Josef Käßmann (1784–1856) and Franz Bauer (1798–1872). Pilz was in Rome from 1850 to 1854 on an imperial scholarship. Later he was supported primarily by Theophil Hansen and created several statues on the representative state buildings on Vienna's Ringstrasse . One of his best known works is the group Pegasus Tamed by the Muses , which he designed and made for the Vienna Opera House . However, after severe public criticism, it was soon taken down and sold to Philadelphia (USA).

Works

Pegasus (1863), Philadelphia

Palais Epstein (1871), Vienna

• 1859: Draft for the equestrian monument for Austrian Field Marshal Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg in Vienna
• 1861: Four evangelists at the portal of the Evangelical School on Karlsplatz in Vienna
• 1863: 2 Pegasus groups for the Vienna State Opera , since 1871 in Philadelphia (USA)
• 1865: Statue "Christoph Willibald Gluck" in the building of the Vienna Musikverein
• 1867: Statue "Leopold Graf Kollonits" formerly the Elisabeth Bridge in Vienna
• 1871: Caryatids at the Palais Epstein in Vienna
• 1874: Statue "Charlemagne" at the Votive Church in Vienna
• 1879–1882: Quadigen on the parliament building in Vienna
• 1880: Caryatids at the parliament building in Vienna

literature

• R. Mikula:  Mushroom Vincent. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 79 f. (Direct links on p. 79 , p. 80 ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Pilz, Vincenz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, pp. 308–312 ( digitized version ).
• Obituary by Ludwig Hevesi in: Fremdblatt, May 1, 1896, p. 7.
• Walter Krause : The sculpture of the Ringstrasse from late Romanticism to the turn of 1900 . In: Renate Wagner-Rieger (Ed.): The Vienna Ringstrasse. Image of an era. The expansion of the Inner City of Vienna under Emperor Franz Joseph . Volume 9.3. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-03288-6 .
• Anthology from the Vincenz Pilz conference, Městské divadlo Varnsdorf, Varnsdorf 2017, ISBN 978-80-270-1386-9

Web links

Commons : Vincenz Pilz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Family research in the Bohemian Warnsdorf: biography