Friedrich Beer
Friedrich Salomon Beer, Samuel Friedrich Beer, later Frédéric Beer ( born September 1, 1846 in Brno, † October 18, 1912 in Florence ) was an Austro- French sculptor.
Life
Beer, son of a merchant from Proßnitz was orphaned early and was brought up by relatives. He attended the Academy of Commerce in Proßnitz and then went with 15 years at a Vienna meerschaum carvers in teaching. From 1865 to 1870 he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, first with Carl Radnitzky ( 1818-1901 ), then at Franz Bauer ( 1798-1872 ).
For his character Achilles and Penthesilea group he received in 1870 at the suggestion of Theophil Hansen, the Rome scholarship. In Rome, he stood by for three years a free studio in the Palazzo di Venezia available. In 1873 he returned to Vienna, then settled in Paris in 1875 but attacked and routed initially, in cooperation with the humorists Alfred Grevin, amusing portraits of women and statuettes. In the 1880s his children statuettes were particularly popular, so often reproduced images of Martin Luther and Albrecht Dürer as children. In addition, he operated chemical studies and developed various synthetic Modelling ( Plasta, Beerite ).
In the 1890s, he met Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau know and created several sculptures with Zionist issue. In 1902, Berry moved to Florence, where he spent his last decade of life.