!!!Schwartz, Stefan

b. Nitra, Slovakia (then Neutra), Aug. 20, 1851; Raab an der Thaya 
(Lower Austria), July 31, 1924. Sculptor and medallist. After 
training as a craftsman and artist achieved his breakthrough at the 
World Exhibition of 1873; from 1876 at the Vienna School of Arts and 
Crafts, professor in 1884. Also produced statuettes, arts and craft 
objects, engravings and architectural sculptures. S. was talented for 
both decorative and figurative art and is regarded as a versatile 
representative of elegant Late Historicism with special preference for 
portraits.

!Works
Vienna: Collaboration on buildings along the Ringstrasse 
(Parliament, Hofburg Imperial Palace, Dumba palace) and on the Crown 
Prince's Armoire (1881, Museum of Applied Art); monument of R. v. 
Eitelberger at the Vienna Zentralfriedhof cemetery, 1887 (with H. 
Herdtle), bust of L. Schwartz-Siess, around 1882 (Oesterreichische 
Galerie Belvedere). - Medals, commemorative coins.

!Literature
OeBL.


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