Siegfried Charoux
BORN:
1896
LIVES:
Moved to England in 1935, died 1967
PARENTS:
His father Josef Kinich was a civil engineer who had served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. His mother Anna Buchta (née Charous) was a dressmaker
EARLY LIFE:
Siegfried’s conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian Army in early 1915. His right hand was wounded in the First World War, with nerve damage causing paralysis, and he left the army due to his wounds in 1917. He regained use of his right arm after a successful surgical operation.
EDUCATION:
Siegfried studied at the School of Arts and Crafts, then at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
CAREER:
Was a political cartoonist until 1933, when he began a series of monuments in Vienna. His cartoons were published in the Arbeiter-Zeitung and other left-wing journals. He shifted to sculpture, opening his own studio in 1926, and made memorials in Vienna
MEDIUMS USED IN WORK:
Bronze, stone, or terracotta
SUBJECTS OF WORK:
Mainly figures
EXHIBITIONS:
The Tate, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Piccadilly Gallery and widely in America
Siegfried Charoux’s sculpture and furniture for sale from The Sculpture Park is detailed below:
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Sale!
AbstractThe Pianist by Siegfried Charoux
Original price was: £3,240.£2,900Current price is: £2,900. inc VATThe Pianist by Siegfried Charoux, Bronze