Alfred Lanz

Alfred Karl Lanz ( born October 25, 1847 in La Chaux -de-Fonds, † May 1, 1907 in Bern ) was a Swiss painter and sculptor.

Life

Karl Alfred Lanz graduated from the Graveurlehre at J. Häuselmann in Biel and was then from 1871 as a workshop manager operates. He studied in 1872 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a pupil of the sculptor Max Widmann. From 1875 to 1877 he was at the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris and attended a lesson in Jules -Pierre Caveliers studio. These trainings were made possible by a grant from him.

He was able to build the monument to Guillaume -Henri Dufour in Geneva in 1884, and received after this success further orders, among others, the Pestalozzi memorial in Yverdon- les- Bains in 1890 (for which he also the gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 received ), the Isaak Iselin monument in Basel in 1891 and the Heinrich Zschokke monument in Aarau in 1894. Lanz lived in Paris and was one of the most successful sculptors of his time in Switzerland. He created busts of various political figures, including Emil Welti. Next he made as to architectural sculptures for the Kunstmuseum Bern and the House of Parliament.