Viktor Tilgner

Viktor Oskar Tilgner (25 October 1844 in Pressburg – 16 April 1896 in Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor and medailleur. Later, he was attracted to engraving and worked with the medailleur . One of Tilgner's student's was German sculptor John Walz.

He belonged to the circle of artists around Count Karol Lanckoroński. During the World Exhibition of 1873, he met the French sculptor Gustave Deloye, who strongly influenced his work. The following year, he took a trip to Italy with Hans Makart, whose "realistic academicism" also influenced Tilgner's style. For the last twenty years of his life, he had a large studio in what was originally a greenhouse at the Palais Schwarzenberg.

Despite a long-standing heart condition and recurring chest pain, he spent a strenuous day working on his Mozart monument in Vienna, to get it ready on schedule. Raphael and Rembrandt Figures at the Burgtheater: Don Juan, Phaidra, Falstaff, Hanswurst, William Shakespeare, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Hebbel, Franz Grillparzer and Karl Felix Halm. Monument for Josef Werndl, Steyr Monument for Anton Bruckner in the Stadtpark. Due to vandalism, the female figure was removed and replaced with a simple pedestal. Monument for Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Bratislava Monument for Dr Johann Nepomuk Prix, Wiener Zentralfriedhof Monument for Franz Liszt, Ödenburg