Theodor Friedl

quadriga, Vienna Stock Exchange, 1977

Friedl pediment sculpture at the Mahen Theatre, Brno

One of the Horse Tamer statues at Maria-Theresien-Platz

Theodor Friedl (February 13, 1842 in Vienna – September 5, 1900 in Warth, Lower Austria) was an Austrian sculptor.

Biography[]

Friedl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Anton Dominik Fernkorn. Among his first major commissions was a program of architectural sculpture for the 1877 Vienna Stock Exchange, a collaboration with the Danish-Austrian neo-classic architect Theophil Hansen. The program included a quadriga, six full-figure statues, and a series of frieze panels around the cornice line.

The same year Friedl had also begun a long-term working relationship with Viennese architects Fellner & Helmer for theaters across Europe, transmitting variations of the Viennese neo-classic Ringstraße Style to Sofia, Brno, Berlin, etc.

Friedl was buried with honors at the Zentralfriedhof Cemetery, with a portrait relief on his tomb by sculptor Leopold Kosig.

Work[]

Friedl's major work includes:

Vienna Stock Exchange, for architect Theophil Hansen, 1877
two finial Pegasus statues for the Stadttheater Augsburg, for Fellner & Helmer, 1877 (removed)
Cupid and Psyche, marble, Belvedere, Vienna, 1882
exterior and interior work at the Mahen Theatre, Brno, 1882,^[1] for Fellner & Helmer, 1882
interior and exterior work, Municipal Theater of Karlovy Vary, for Fellner & Helmer, 1886^[2]
pediment sculpture and all other facade sculpture, State Opera, Prague, for Fellner & Helmer and other architects, 1888^[3]
Komische Oper Berlin, for Fellner & Helmer, 1892^[4]
freestanding Horse Tamer statue, Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1893
reliefs on the Liberec Town Hall, Liberec, Czech Republic, for architect Franz Neumann, 1893^[5]
ceiling reliefs in the Dutch Hall and Italian Hall, in the Palais Lanckoroński, Vienna, for Fellner & Helmer, 1895 (razed)

References[]

^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-11-18. Retrieved 2012-04-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ http://www.karlovy-vary.cz/en/municipal-theatre-karlovy-vary
^ http://www.theatre-architecture.eu/en/db/?personId=276&theatreId=42
^ http://www.theatre-architecture.eu/en/db/?personId=276&theatreId=684
^ http://www.infolbc.cz/en/liberec/radnice_en.pdf

External links[]

Friedl's biographical entry in the Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (German language)

[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-11-18. Retrieved 2012-04-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] ttp://www.karlovy-vary.cz/en/municipal-theatre-karlovy-vary

[3] ttp://www.theatre-architecture.eu/en/db/?personId=276&theatreId=42

[4] ttp://www.theatre-architecture.eu/en/db/?personId=276&theatreId=684

[5] ttp://www.infolbc.cz/en/liberec/radnice_en.pdf

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