Emil Fuchs
Born 1866
Died 1929
Active: 1898 - 1949
Country of birth: Austria
Country of death: United States
Sculptor, medallist, painter
Born in Vienna. Studied under the sculptor Hellmer at the Vienna Academy, and under Schaper and von Werner at the Academy in Berlin. Fuchs won the Rome Prize in 1891 and spent 1891-7 in Rome. He lived in London between 1897-1915 where he became a fashionable portrait artist and received a number of commissions from the royal family. During this time Fuchs learned to paint under the guidance of his friend John Singer Sargent. He moved to the USA in 1915 and settled in New York, in 1924 he was naturalized as an American citizen. Fuchs committed suicide in 1929. His papers (1880-1931) and studio contents were given to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. (See www.brooklynmuseum.org/collections/libraries.../Fuchs_final.pdf and http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/search/?type=object&start_index=0&q=fuchs&x=0&y=0 (accessed 5 May 2011))
Works
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Locations
Address 54 Devonshire Street Portland Place London | View on map
1898 (Presumed) - 1902 (Presumed)
Address Abbey Lodge Regents Park London | View on map
1908 (Circa) - 1915 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirtieth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1900
'Arthur W. Pinero'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Eighteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1900
'Grip of Death'
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
Mr Carl Meyer (cat. no. 1399, marble bust, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
Lady Alice Montagn (cat. no. 1473, marble bust, not for sale).
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1898 - 1902
Exhibited 7 times, fourteen works in all (busts, figure groups, statuettes, medals, plaquettes in marble and bronze)
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1901
1901
Study (cat. no. 1573, bronze head, not for sale).
Institutional and Business Connections
Worked for The Birmingham Mint Limited
Employed by the Mint. See Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 454, no dates are given.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume II, 1904 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary painter, sculptor and medallist. Made and exhibited numerous portrait medals bewteen c. 1900 and 1902. In the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1901 the artist exhibited 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': see Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), pp. 166-167.
Sources
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirtieth, 1900 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1900
Cat. No. 1433, p. 39
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth, 1898 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1898
pp. 45-48.
Catalogue of the Eighteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1900
1900
Cat. No. 250, pp. 45, 50
Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists
1981
p. 227-28
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1130&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio
(accessed 12 May 2009)
Citing this record
'Emil Fuchs', 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=msib6_1233140003, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
