Edmund von Hellmer

Hellmer studied architecture at the Polytechnikum in Vienna. At the same time, he received his first artistic training from his uncle, the sculptor Josef Schönfeld. In 1866, Hellmer decided to study sculpture full-time at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. While there, he also worked in the studio of Hanns Gasser, who helped him to finance a short stay in Paris. In 1869, at the age of 19, he presented a statue of Prometheus at the International Art Exhibition in Munich. He won a prize that included a scholarship, enabling him to spend almost two years in Italy.

In 1870, he returned to Vienna and worked as a freelance sculptor. In 1879, he was appointed a Professor at the Academy and, from 1882 to 1892, was a member of the faculty there. Emil Fuchs was one of Hellmer's most prominent students.[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/emil-fuchs-1130 Quoted on Tate website:] Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.227–8 In 1897, he was one of the founders of the Vienna Secession.{{ cite journal | journal = Ver Sacrum | title = Ordentliche Mitglieder |trans-title= Ordinary Members | year = 1898 | volume = 1 | page = 28 | url = http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/vs1898/0032 }} From 1901 to 1922 he was an associate dean, then a full dean at the Academy. During the last year of his life, he was confined to a wheelchair.{{ANNO|nfp|10|03|1935|09|NAME=|AUTOR=Josef Müllner|Edmund Hellmer gestorben|ZUSATZ=Morgenblatt, Nr. 25321 S/1935|ALTSEITE=9, Mitte rechts.}}.

• Franz Joseph I Gives His People a Constitution, Pediment at the Austrian Parliament Building, 1879
• Malerei (Allegory of Painting), Sculpture at the facade of the Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum) at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna, 1880
• Schindler Monument in the Stadtpark, Vienna. Marble, 1895
• Die Macht zu Lande (The Forces on Land), fountain at the Hofburg in Vienna. Marble, 1897
• Goethe Monument, at the Opera Ring in Vienna. Bronze, 1900.
• Empress Elisabeth Monument, Salzburg, 1901{{ANNO|nfp|15|07|1901|01|NAME=|AUTOR=|Das Denkmal der Kaiserin Elisabeth in Salzburg|ZUSATZ=Abendblatt, Nr. 13249/1901|ALTSEITE=1 ff.}}.
• Castalia Fountain at the University of Vienna, 1910
• Johann Strauß Monument in the Stadtpark, Vienna. Bronze with marble reliefs, 1921
• Grave statues for Hans Makart (1889), Nikolaus Dumba (1903) and Hugo Wolf (1904), among many others.

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• {{ANNO|oiz|05|00|1903|00000590|NAME=Österreichs Illustrierte Zeitung|AUTOR=Arth(ur) Rud(olf) Hecht|Edmund Hellmer und seine Schule. Mit 27 Illustrationen|ZUSATZ=Heft 28/1904, 10. April 1904 (XIII. Jahrgang)|ALTSEITE=590–593.|anno-plus=ja}}.
• {{ÖBL|2|264|265|Hellmer Edmund von}}
• Barbara Scheiblin: Die Sepulkralplastik Edmund Hellmers. Diplomarbeit. Universität Wien, Wien 1988.
• Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien. Band 3: Ha – La. Kremayr & Scheriau, Wien 1994, {{ISBN|3-218-00545-0}}.
• Barbara Scheiblin: Sisi in Salzburg. Das Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Denkmal von Edmund Hellmer. In: Salzburg-Archiv. Band 26.1999, {{ZDB|2379825-7}}. Verein Freunde der Salzburger Geschichte (Hrsg.), Salzburg 1999, {{pp.|255–276}}.

• {{Austriaforum|AEIOU/Hellmer,_Edmund_von|Hellmer, Edmund von}}
• [http://www.goethezeitportal.de/index.php?id=4315 Edmund von Hellmer, Wiener Goethe-Denkmal, 1900]
• [http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=Edmund+von+Hellmer&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500062888 Entry for Edmund von Hellmer] on the Union List of Artist Names

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