Emil Fuchs

Emil Fuchs (9 August 1866 – 13 January 1929) was an Austrian–American sculptor, medallist, painter, and author who worked in Vienna, London, and New York. He painted portraits of Queen Victoria and Edward VII and was fashionable among London high society in the early 20th century. He then attended the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin where he studied under Fritz Schaper and Anton von Werner. From 1891 to 1897 he was in Rome, having won the German Prix de Rome in 1891. He worked on commissions including portraits for Queen Victoria and Edward VII, and his portraits became fashionable among various patrons from the aristocracy and high society. producing more works there and offering assistance with the war effort. He became a US citizen in 1924. He had surgery for cancer in 1928, and in anticipation of a death with great suffering he shot himself at the Hotel des Artistes in New York on 13 January 1929, aged 62. His will created a foundation which put his art on view as a permanent exhibit, and for this he left $500,000 plus artworks to the public.

Artwork

During his career in Vienna, Berlin, Rome, England and New York he created portrait busts, figurines, memorials, medals, oil paintings and other works of art.

Exhibitions Between 1898 and 1902 he showed fourteen works over seven Royal Academy summer exhibitions. This included busts, figure groups, figurines, medals, and marble and bronze plaquettes. In 1898 he exhibited marble busts of Lady Alice Montagu and Mr Carl Meyer at the autumn exhibition in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. In 1901 at the RA summer exhibition he showed a case of medals including "portraits of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, H. M. King Edward VII., Lord Roberts, General Sir George White, General Baden-Powell, and the Peace Medal, of which two varieties exist". Several medallions commissioned by Queen Victoria (d.1901), Edward VII (d.1910) and Queen Alexandra (d.1925). Plymouth's memorial to Prince Christian Victor and the fallen of the Second Boer War (1903). Portrait in oils of Edward VII (1903) for his Prussian regiment at the Brooklyn Museum. King Edward VII penny postage stamp (1902–1910). Circular Carrara marble memorial plaques of Edward VII (d.1910) executed at Sandringham and Copenhagen for Alexandra of Denmark (1910–1913), and a replica plaque carved for the opening of The King's Hall, Herne Bay, Kent (1913). A bust of Lord Wolseley (d.1913) (between 1897 and 1915). The Hudson-Fulon Celebration Medal (1909) A selection of Fuchs' sculptures can be found in:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington National Academy of Design, New York City

A selection of Fuchs' paintings can be found at:

Pioneers' Museum, Colorado Springs, Colorado Yale University, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven, Connecticut Raydon Gallery, New York City Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

A selection of Fuchs' medallic art can be found at:

The American Numismatic Society, New York City