!!!Benk, Johannes

b. Vienna, July 27, 1844, 
d. Vienna, March 12, 1914, sculptor. Important representative of the 
Vienna Ringstrasse style; his own style partly bearing neo-baroque 
elements; created mainly decorative sculpture and monuments.

!Works
Contributions in Vienna to the Arsenal, Votivkirche church, 
Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Natural History, Parliament, 
Town Hall, Burgtheater, etc.; monument of J. Strauss (Younger) and E. 
Strauss (Vienna Zentralfriedhof cemetery), both around 1900; 
Deutschmeister monument (Vienna), 1906.

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



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