Viktor Tilgner (1844 Bratislava - 1896 Vienna) Pair of portrait busts of an aristocratic couple Counterparts. White marble. Each signed with location Vienna. Subtly executed, life-size, representative busts in half profile. A crowned coat of arms or alliance coat of arms on the front of the neo-baroque-style plinths. Tilgner was one of the main representatives of the Neo-Baroque style of the Ringstrasse epoch in Vienna. He learnt under the sculptor Franz Schönthaler and studied at the academy under Franz Bauer and Josef Gasser. He travelled to Italy in 1874 with Hans Makart, the leading Viennese painter at the time. He also belonged to the circle of friends and artists of Johann Strauss and Karl Graf Lanckoronski. He was strongly influenced by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Gustave Deloye, who had travelled to Vienna in 1873 as part of the World Exhibition. The 1896 monument to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna's Burggarten is considered Tilgner's main work. In addition to architectural sculptures for the court museums, the Burgtheater, the Neue Hofburg and the Hermesvilla as well as several fountains, his oeuvre also includes numerous portrait busts of historical and living personalities from politics (including the imperial couple and Crown Prince Rudolf), nobility, high society and culture. H. 73-74 cm. Provenance: Dissolution of an important German private collection - Part II. A pair of white marble portrait busts of a noble couple with coats of arms. Each signed with location Vienna.