!!!Hellmer, Edmund von

b. Vienna, Nov. 12, 1850, 
d. Vienna, March 9, 1935, sculptor of the Historicism period. First 
studied architecture, then sculpture at the Vienna Academy. Worked in 
the studio of H.  Gasser, 1879-1922 taught at the Vienna Academy, 
teacher of A.  Hanak. Only partly followed the neo-Baroque style, 
influenced by A. von Hildebrand. Founding member of the Vienna 
Secession, important creator of monuments and portrait painter. In 
1900 published "Lehrjahre in der Plastik".

!Works
monuments: Tuerkenbefreiungsdenkmal im Stephansdom, 1894 (1945 
partly destroyed); E. J. Schindler, 1895; J. W. v. 
Goethe, 1900; J. Strauss, 1921 (all in Vienna); M. v. Franck, 
1899 (Graz); Empress Elisabeth, 1901 (Hellbrunn). - Architectural 
sculpture for the Parliament, University, Hofburg etc. in Vienna. - 
Gravestones: N. Dumba, around 1903; H. Wolf, 1904 (both in Vienna, 
Zentralfriedhof).

!Literature
B. Scheiblin, Die Sepulkralplastik E. H., master's 
thesis, Vienna 1988; E. Hellmer, E. H., 1990; OeBL.



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