"Russian Writer Leo Tolstoy, Bronze Bust By Robert Weigl ( 1851 Slovenia - 1902 Vienna)"
The original Art Nouveau bronze bust of the famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy was executed in Vienna in 1901 by the Slovenian-Austrian sculptor Robert Weigl (1851 Sagor/ Carniola in Slovenia - 1902 Vienna), who was famous at the turn of the 20th century for his sculptures of famous personalities of the monumental 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 artists' 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: Vienna Historical Encyclopedia. Vienna 1997.
Inscription: signed, dated: 1)901 Weigl, on the back of the sculpture and titled: Tolstoy, on the front.
Technique: bronze, granite base.
Dimensions: height 22 cm.
condition: very good.
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