Siegfried Charoux

BORN:
1896

LIVES:
Moved to England in 1935, died 1967

PARENTS:
His father Josef Kinich was a civil engineer who had served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. His mother Anna Buchta (née Charous) was a dressmaker

EARLY LIFE:
Siegfried’s conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian Army in early 1915. His right hand was wounded in the First World War, with nerve damage causing paralysis, and he left the army due to his wounds in 1917. He regained use of his right arm after a successful surgical operation.

EDUCATION:
Siegfried studied at the School of Arts and Crafts, then at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

CAREER:
Was a political cartoonist until 1933, when he began a series of monuments in Vienna. His cartoons were published in the Arbeiter-Zeitung and other left-wing journals. He shifted to sculpture, opening his own studio in 1926, and made memorials in Vienna

MEDIUMS USED IN WORK:
bronze, stone, or terracotta

SUBJECTS OF WORK:
Mainly figures

EXHIBITIONS:
The Tate, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Piccadilly Gallery and widely in America


Siegfried Charoux’s sculpture and furniture for sale from The Sculpture Park is detailed below: