- CountryAustria
- Town:Vienna
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Year of creation:1892
- Rider(s):Johann Josef Wenzel Radetzky
(1766 –1858) was a Bohemian nobleman and Austrian field marshal. He served as chief of the general staff in the Habsburg Monarchy during the later period of the Napoleonic Wars and afterwards began military reforms. A disciplined but fair man, he was so beloved by his troops that he was known as Vater (‘Father’) Radetzky. He is best known for the victories during the First Italian War of Independence. He was called into battle at age 90 and served until age 91. He was immortalized by Johann Strauss I’s Radetzky March commissioned to commemorate Radetzky’s victories at the Battle of Custoza.
(source Wikipedia) - Sculptor(s):Kaspar von Zumbusch
(1830 –1915) was a German sculptor, who became a pre-eminent sculptor of neo-Baroque monuments in Vienna.
He went at the age of eighteen to study in Munich. At first unsuccessfully at the Academy and then Polytechische Schule under Johann Halbig. He continued his studies in Rome. He won the competition in 1866 for a monument to Maximilian II of Bavaria in Munich, that was unveiled in 1875. In 1873 he was called to Vienna as professor in the academy, a post he held until 1901. His most important works are a statue of Count Rumford, Munich; and the monuments to Prince August of Prussia (Bellevue Park, Berlin), Beethoven (1873-1880, Vienna), Maria Theresa (1887, Vienna), and to Emperor William I (1896, Wittekindsberg, Westphalia). Also, in Vienna are his monuments to Count Radetzky (1891) and to Archduke Albrecht (1898-1899).
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