GUSTINUS AMBROSI * (Eisenstadt 1893 - 1975 Vienna ) head bronze 4 x 2 cm ESTIMATE °€ 100 - € 200 STARTING PRICE € 100 Gustinus (August Arthur) Ambrosi was an Austrian artist. The father, Friedrich Ambrosi, was an officer in the Imperial and Royal Army, choir director and composer and a friend of Johannes Brahms and Joseph Joachim. The mother, Natalie Ambrosi, née de Lángh, wrote poetry and played the piano excellently. Son August played the violin in quartets as a six-year-old. In 1899, the family moved to Prague. In 1900, August lost his hearing due to meningitis. From 1902 to 1906, he learned modelling and carving as a student at the Prague Private Deaf and Mute Institute. In 1906, he was an intern and from 1907 an apprentice in the largest sculptor and plastering company in Prague, "Jakob Kozourek". After his father's death, the family moved to Graz in 1909, where Gustinus continued his apprenticeship at the Suppan, Haushofer und Nikisch company until 1911. While still an apprentice, he attended the master class for modelers at the Graz k.u.k. Staatsgewerbeschule (Imperial and Royal state trade school), sponsored by the sculptor Georg Winkler. Ambrosi received his first recognition with the work "The Man with the Broken Neck" (1909): The 16-year-old was accepted into the Styrian Fine Artists' Cooperative. From 1910 to 1912, he took part in collective exhibitions in the Graz State Museum; in 1912, he was awarded the State Prize for Sculpture. In 1913, after the intercession of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he received Governor of Styria, Count Manfred von Clary-Altreiben, gave him a state studio in Vienna for life through Emperor Franz Joseph I. For further education, Ambrosi moved to Vienna with his mother in 1912 and studied as an adjunct student at the Academy of Fine Arts until 1914 (he was a guest student with Josef Müllner and Edmund Hellmer, and he had private lessons with Kaspar von Zumbusch). Ambrosi corresponded with Felix Braun, Stefan Zweig, Anton Wildgans, Franz Karl Ginzkey, Alfons Petzold, Franz Theodor Csokor and Arthur Fischer-Colbrie, some of whom he portrayed. He was inspired to write his major work "Promethidenlos" (1916-1918) by Gerhart Hauptmann's verse poem of the same name; in 1914, he portrayed the poet in Agnetendorf. Ambrosi worked in many major cities in Europe (Amsterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Paris, Rome, Basel, Zurich, Cologne and others) and had studios in Rome, Paris and Cologne. On behalf of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Ambrosi created a bust of Mussolini in 1924. In 1925, Ambrosi represented Austria as a commissioner at the IIIrd Biennale in Rome and presented works by Alfons Walde, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Alfred Kubin, Anton Faistauer and Franz Barwig. Jan Tabor called Ambrosi the "prominent sculptor of all Austrian political forms of this century". Further artists and styles: Expressionism, Realism, Portrait, Nude, Anton Hanak, Josef Müllner, Fritz Wotruba, Wilhelm Frass, Anton Brenek, Auguste Rodin, Ivan Mestrovic, Edmund Hellmer PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and, the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.