Edmund von Hellmer

Edmund Hellmer, 1912: Edmund Ritter von Hellmer ( born November 12, 1850 in Vienna, † March 9, 1935 ) was an Austrian sculptor, who is the style of Art Historicism and Art Nouveau.

Life

After graduating Hellmer began to study architecture at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna. At the same time he got his first artistic training from his uncle, the sculptor Josef Schonfeld. But already after the first semester substitute Hellmer 1866 at the Academy of Fine Arts to study sculpture. At the Academy he was, inter alia, Student of Prof. Franz Bauer. At the same time attending, during this training in the studio of Hanns Gasser. Through its support, Hellmer could stop some time in Paris.

Already with 19 years Hellmer could debut in 1869 at the International Art Exhibition in Munich with a factory. His relief addressed the Prometheus and earned him a prize. Hellmer got a generous scholarship that enabled him to almost two-year stay in Italy.

In 1870 he returned to Vienna, where he worked in the following years as a freelance sculptor. 1873 his son of the same Edmund Hellmer was born. In 1879 he was appointed professor and in the years 1882 to 1892, he was appointed also to the faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts. Hellmer 1897 was a founding member of the Vienna Secession. In 1901 he headed a special school for sculpture and in 1902 a systemized special school until 1922. Between 1901 and 1922 he was alternately dean and associate dean of the Academy. His second son was the cultural journalist Johann Karl Hellmer.

Honors

  • Citizens of the City of Vienna, 1921
  • Designation of a traffic area Hellmerweg, Vienna Penzing, 1938-1949

Performance

Hellmers early works are totally committed to the aesthetics of historicism and consist mainly of decoration contracts for the Vienna Ringstrasse. At the turn of the 20th century, he turned to new forms as they were propagated by secessionism. He was one of the founders of the Vienna Secession.

These forms are primarily used in his most famous work, the Monument to Johann Strauss II in Vienna's city park to fruition. The figure Strauss himself is portrayed realistically, as it is surrounded by a relief of flowing figures with intertwined hair and robes. As a second major work applies the monument was destroyed in 1945 to the Turks liberation, which was in St. Stephen's Cathedral.

Student of Edmund Hellmers (selection)

Gallery

" The forces on land " (1897 )

Goethe Monument (1900)

Grave monument to Hugo Wolf ( 1904)

Johann Strauss monument in Vienna's city park

Johann Strauss monument, detail ( 1921)

Johann Strauss monument, detail ( 1921)

Johann Strauss monument, detail ( 1921)

Works

  • Pediment group of Ring Theatre, 1874 (destroyed)
  • Allegorical figures of theology and philosophy at the University of Vienna, 1877
  • Franz Joseph gives his people a constitution, Pediment of the parliament in Vienna, 1879
  • Grave monument of Hans Makart, Vienna's Central Cemetery, 1889
  • Grave monument Mayer family of Gunthof, Hietzing Cemetery, 1893
  • Turks Liberation Monument in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, 1894 (destroyed)
  • Schindler Memorial in City Park ( Vienna), marble, 1895
  • The forces on land, wells at the St. Michael's facade of the Hofburg, marble, 1897
  • M. Franck, Graz, 1899
  • Goethe monument at the Opera Ring in Vienna, bronze, 1900. [Note 1]
  • Empress Elisabeth, Salzburg Hellbrunn, 1901
  • Grave monument Dumba, Vienna's Central Cemetery, 1903
  • Grave monument to Hugo Wolf, Vienna's Central Cemetery, 1904
  • Grave monument Family Kratochwill, Vienna's Central Cemetery, 1905
  • Castalia Fountain at the University of Vienna, 1910
  • Grave monument Family Hellmer, Stockerauer Cemetery, 1911
  • Grave monument Fibrich Franz, Vienna's Central Cemetery, 1917
  • Johann Strauss monument in Vienna's city park, bronze with marble relief, 1921

Writings

  • Edmund Hellmer: apprenticeship in sculpture. First part. Schroll, Vienna 1900.
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