Othmar Schimkowitz

{{Short description|Austrian architectural sculptor (1864–1947)}}

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| birth_place = Tárts, Austrian Empire

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| death_place = Graz, Austria

| nationality = Austrian

| field = Architectural sculpture

| training = Edmund von Hellmer, Carl Kundmann

| movement = Art Nouveau

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Othmar Schimkowitz (2 October 1864 in Tárts,{{Cite book |last=Pötzl-Malikova |first=Maria |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3076466 |title=Die Plastik der Ringstrasse : künstlerische Entwicklung, 1890-1918 |date=1976 |publisher=F. Steiner |isbn=3-515-02391-7 |location=Wiesbaden |pages=147 |oclc=3076466}}{{Cite book |last=Waissenberger |first=Robert |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3526351 |title=Vienna Secession |date=1977 |publisher=Rizzoli |isbn=0-8478-0114-4 |location=New York |pages=132 |oclc=3526351}} Komárom County – 24 April 1947 in Graz) was a Hungarian-born architectural sculptor who worked on the greatest landmarks of the Vienna Secession.{{Cite book |last=Nebehay |first=Christian M. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4043659 |title=Ver Sacrum, 1898-1903 |date=1977 |publisher=Rizzoli |others=Wiener Secession |isbn=0-8478-0115-2 |location=New York |pages=285 |oclc=4043659}}

Life

Schimkowitz studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, lived for three years in New York as friends with the Austrian-American sculptor Karl Bitter,{{Cite book |last=Holme |first=Charles |title=The Art-Revival in Austria |publisher=Offices of "The Studio" |year=1906 |publication-place=London |pages=34 |language=English}} and returned to Vienna in 1895. He joined the Vienna Secession in 1898.{{Cite book |last=Vergo |first=Peter |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12578040 |title=Art in Vienna, 1898-1918 : Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their contemporaries |date=1981 |publisher=Phaidon |isbn=0-7148-2222-1 |edition=2nd |location=Oxford, OX |pages=108, 244 |oclc=12578040}}{{Cite book |last=Mahler |first=Alma |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39765160 |title=Diaries, 1898-1902 |date=1999 |publisher=Cornell University Press |others=Antony Beaumont, Susanne Rode-Breymann |isbn=0-8014-3654-0 |location=Ithaca, N.Y. |pages=64 |oclc=39765160}}

Major works

His architectural sculpture includes:

Figurative ornamentation for the 1897 Gutenberg Monument, Vienna, Jože Plečnik, architect{{Cite book |last=Krečič |first=Peter |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27034223 |title=Plečnik, the complete works |date=1993 |publisher=Whitney Library of Design |others=Jože Plečnik |isbn=0-8230-2565-9 |location=New York, N.Y. |pages=17 |oclc=27034223}}
The three gorgons on the 1898 Secession exhibition building in Vienna, Joseph Maria Olbrich, architect{{Cite book |last=Howard |first=Jeremy |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33863940 |title=Art nouveau : international and national styles in Europe |date=1996 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=0-7190-4160-0 |location=Manchester |pages=69 |oclc=33863940}}
The "calling women" of the 1898-1899 of the Linke Wienzeile Buildings by Otto Wagner, architect{{Cite book |last=Alofsin |first=Anthony |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61200687 |title=When buildings speak : architecture as language in the Habsburg Empire and its aftermath, 1867-1933 |date=2006 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |isbn=0-226-01506-8 |location=Chicago |pages=66 |oclc=61200687}}
Exterior work on the Austrian Pavilion at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri
Rooftop angels of the 1904-1906 Austrian Postal Savings Bank in Vienna, also for Wagner
Angels on the 1907 Kirche am Steinhof in Vienna, also for Wagner{{Cite book |last=Kalmár |first=János |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50784390 |title=Otto Wagner |date=2001 |publisher=Pichler Verlag |others=Renata Kassal-Mikula |isbn=3-85431-242-3 |location=Wien |pages=56 |oclc=50784390}}