Siegfried Joseph Charoux RA
Other names: Buchta, Charous
Born 15 November 1896
Died 26 April 1967
Active: 1943 - 1956
Country of birth: Austria
Country of death: Great Britain
Sculptor, painter, potter
Born at Koppstrasse 2, Vienna, Austria. Siegfried used his mother's surname, Buchta until 1914; then Charous (also from his mother) which he changed to Charoux in 1926.
He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna under Hans Bitterlich from 1922-24. Between 1924-8 he worked as a cartoonist for the Arbeiter-Zeitung under the pseudonym 'Chat Roux'.
He settled in England in 1935 (one of his works had been destroyed by the Nazis). From the late 1930s he received a number of important commissions and after the war exhibited widely. His commissions include: stone carvings for the New School of Anatomy and Engineering College at Cambridge University 1948; Amy Johnson Memorial, Hull Liverpool; Exchange Buildings in Liverpool; The Islanders for Festival of Britain 1951; The Neighbours for Quadrant Estate, Highbury, London 1959; Man 1960, South Bank, London.
In 1946 his work was included in 'Sculpture in the Home', Arts Council 1946; LCC 1948, 54, 57, 60; AC 1957, 58, 60, 61; SB 1951.
He was naturalized a British subject on 16 November 1946. Charoux died at Manor House Hospital, Hendon, London.
Biography from Gross (2004) and Whiteley (2001)
Wealth at death: £3,126 3s. 0d.
Probate date: 17 August 1967
Works
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A summer's day
1951
Young love
1951
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Fifth, 1951
'Two reclining figures'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1943
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1940 - 1967
Exhibited 29 times (13 times up to 1951 and work also shown posthumously in 1968). From 1940-1950 showed an average of 3 works per year, and thereafter usually 6 per year. Charoux exhibited sculptures and paintings.
Exhibited at Exhibition of Open Air Sculpture, Battersea Park (London County Council), 1948
1948
Selection committee member of Chantrey Bequest (Chantrey Fund; Royal Academy of Arts), 1875-1948
1951 - 1952
Served on the Recommending Committee in 1951 and 1952 (Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1951', 1952, p. 18).
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1947 - 1949
Unanimously nominated for membership
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
22 April 1949 - 21 February 1956
See Popp and Valentine, 'Directory of Membership', (1996), p. 21.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
21 February 1956 - 26 April 1967
Died in 1967.
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1949 - 1959
Wrote a letter of resignation in 1958
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1949 - 1951
Visitor at Royal Academy Schools
1949 - 1950
Listed as a visitor to the Sculpture School. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1949', (1950), p. 39.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Stanley Anderson
April 1943
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by James Bateman
April 1943
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by Gilbert Ledward
April 1943
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by Alfred Frank Hardiman
April 1943
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by Frank Owen Dobson
April 1943
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by William Reid Dick
April 1943
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominated by Edward Le Bas
April 1943
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominator of Eric Clare Telford Schilsky
21 April 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Nominator of Edward Charles N. Folkard
13 June 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Fred Kormis
1951
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of David McFall
April 1954
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Sources
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1950, 1951 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1951
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1950', 1951, p. 28.
Directory of sculptors working and exhibiting in Britain in the 1950s, by Gillian Whiteley
2001
p. 8
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Hans Kurt Gross, ‘Charoux , Siegfried Joseph (1896–1967)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32374, accessed 4 Feb 2010]
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.157, p.181, p.222, p.232.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1949, to be Presented at the Forty-Sixth Annual General Meeting, 1950
February 1950
pp. 2, 4
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1951, to be Presented at the Forty-Eighth Annual General Meeting, 1952
February 1952
p. 2.
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Catalogue, 1943
1943
p. 54
Citing this record
'Siegfried Joseph Charoux RA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1217499427, accessed 23 Mar 2023]
