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Austrian Art Nouveau sculptor
Othmar Schimkowitz
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Austrian Art Nouveau sculptor
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24 April 1947 (aged 82 years)
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Graz, Austria
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82 years
Education
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna,
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Biography
Othmar Schimkowitz (2 October 1864 in Tárts, Komárom County – 24 April 1947 in Graz) was a Hungarian-born architectural sculptor who worked on the greatest landmarks of the Vienna Secession.
Life
Schimkowitz studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, lived for three years in New York as friends with the Austrian-American sculptor Karl Bitter, and returned to Vienna in 1895.He joined the Vienna Secession in 1898.
Major works
His architectural sculpture includes:
- Figurative ornamentation for the 1897 Gutenberg Monument, Vienna, Jože Plečnik, architect
- The three gorgons on the 1898 Secession exhibition building in Vienna, Joseph Maria Olbrich, architect
- The "calling women"of the 1898-1899 of the Linke Wienzeile Buildings byOtto Wagner, architect
- Exterior work on the Austrian Pavilion at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri
- Rooftop angels of the 1904-1906 Austrian Postal Savings Bank in Vienna, also for Wagner
- The 1905 Vienna Economic Chamber, Ludwig Baumann, architect
- Angels on the 1907 Kirche am Steinhof in Vienna, also for Wagner
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Notable Hungarian Artists
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1850 to 1899
Notable Hungarian Sculptors
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1850 to 1899
Notable Hungarian Professors
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1850 to 1899
Notable Hungarian Educators
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1850 to 1899
Notable Hungarian Painters
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1850 to 1899
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