Robert Weigl ( 1851 Sagor/ Carniola, Slovenia - 1902 Vienna)
Title:
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy
Item ID
5913
Price:
1500.00 €
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Original Art Nouveau bronze bust of renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy was executed in Vienna in 1901 by listed Slovenian-Austrian sculptor Robert Weigl ( 1851 Sagor/ Carniola in Slovenia - 1902 Vienna), who was famous on the turn of 20th century for sculptures of famous personalities for monumenta and small plastics in bronze and marble: Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Franz-Josef and Elisabeth. Weigl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Carl Radnitzky, Johann Nepomuk Geiger and Carl Wurzinger. From 1892 to 1898 he was a member of the Viennese artist union Künstlerhaus.
Literature: Constantin von Wurzbach, Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire, Vienna 1886; Hans Vollmer, General Encyclopedia of Visual Artists from Antiquity to the Present, Leipzig, 1942.
Felix Czeike: Historical Encyclopedia Vienna. Vienna 1997.
Inscription: signed, dated : 1)901 Weigl, on the back of the sculpture and titled : Tolstoy , in the front.
Technique: bronze, granite plinth.
Measurements: high 8 5/8" (22 cm).
Condition: in very good condition.
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