Hans Bitterlich (28 April 1860,

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- 5 August 1949, Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor.

Life and work

His father was the sculptor and history painter, Eduard Bitterlich. He studied with

Edmund von Hellmer Edmund Ritter von Hellmer (12 November 1850, Vienna – 9 March 1935, Vienna), born Edmund Hellmer and ennobled in 1912, was an Austrian sculptor who worked in the styles of Historicism and Art Nouveau. Life Hellmer studied architecture at ...

and

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, and was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, from 1901 to 1931. His best known works include a monument to Gutenberg in the district (1900), and the monument to

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in the Volksgarten, both with an architectural framework by Friedrich Ohmann. In 1943, he was awarded the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft, and placed on the Gottbegnadeten list of

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, as an important artist of the

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state. He was interred in the Wiener Zentralfriedhof in a (Dedicated Grave).Grabstelle Hans Bitterlich
, Wien, Zentralfriedhof, Gruppe 32, Gruppe Erweiterung A, Nr. 51.

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* * Hedwig Abraham (Ed.)
"Ehrengrab von Vater und Sohn Bitterlich auf dem Wiener Zentralfriedhof"
@ Viennatouristguide 1860 births 1949 deaths Austrian sculptors Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Artists from Vienna {{Austria-sculptor-stub

Life and work

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