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Tilgner, Victor#

b. Bratislava, Slovakia, (then Pressburg), Oct. 25, 1844, d. Vienna, April 16, 1896, sculptor. Studied at the Vienna Academy under H. Gasser; influenced by French sculptors in his early work, in 1874 he travelled to Italy with H. Makart, became the main representative of the neobaroque style among the sculptors working on the Ringstrasse project ( Ringstrasse) in Vienna. Famous portraitist. Created building sculptures for the Court museums, the Burgtheater, the New Imperial Palace and the Hermesvilla as well as many fountains (T.-Brunnen in the Volksgarten, 1875-1877), monuments (Werndl-Monument in Steyr, 1894) and sepulchral monuments. The Mozart monument (1896) in the Vienna Burggarten, originally intended for the area in front of the Albertina, is considered his most important work.

Literature#

G. Kapner et al., Ringstrassendenkmaeler, 1973; M. Poetzl-Malikova, Die Plastik der Ringstrasse 1890-1918, 1976; W. Krause, Die Plastik der Wiener Ringstrasse. Von der Spaetromantik bis zur Wende um 1900, 1980.

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