Helen Zelezny-Scholz

Helene Scholz- Zelezny, also Helena or Helene Zelezny Scholzová - Železná ( born August 16, 1882 in Chropin, † February 18, 1974 in Rome), was an Austrian sculptor and medal urine, which has mostly lived in Italy.

Life

Helene Scholz- Zelezny, daughter of the writer Maria Scholz, grew up in Austrian Silesia and studied in Vienna and Dresden architecture and then in Berlin sculpture under Fritz Heinemann and the like in Brussels, Charles van der Stappen. Further study visits followed in Paris and Florence. With the beginning of World War II, she moved to Vienna and lived since 1919, mainly in Italy. She died in 1974 in Rome and is buried there in the Protestant cemetery.

Artistic creation

1914 Helene Scholz- Zelezny Hofbildhauerin the Habsburgs. From this period dates the medal pictured.

She created about 300 portraits in marble, bronze and terracotta. They were shown at exhibitions in Paris, Vienna, Rome, Prague, Philadelphia, Venice and galleries in Europe and the USA.