Rudolf Weyr
Rudolf Weyr, from 14 May 1911 Rudolf Ritter von Weyr ( born March 22, 1847 in Vienna, † October 30, 1914 ) was an Austrian sculptor. He is regarded as the representative of Neo-Baroque, and as one of the most important artists of the Ringstrasse era.
After studying with Franz Bauer and Joseph Cesar he was a long time employee in the latter. From the 1880s, working alone, he created the sculptural features of some important Ringstrasse. Weyr was a member of the fraternity Olympia and uncle of the graphic artist and author Siegfried Weyr.
Rudolf Ritter von Weyr suffered in his later years to atherosclerosis; on 30 October 1914, he died of a occurred in the course of pneumonia paralysis of the heart. He was (according to their preference) on the Döblinger cemetery buried (Group 9, No. 5). The cortege, who had taken his exit from the house of mourning, country Hauptstrasse 74, Vienna highway, stopped on his way to the cemetery in front of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, the long-term effect of place of the deceased, where the board of the Artists' Association, Hugo Darnaut, gave a farewell speech.
In the year 1919 ( 3rd district ) was named after him in the Weyrgasse Vienna Highway.