The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fernkorn, Anton Dominikus

FERNKORN, Anton Dominikus, än'tōn, dō-mi-ni-koos' fẽrn'korn, Austrian sculptor: b. Erfurt, Saxony, 17 March 1813; d. Irrsin, near Vienna, 16 Nov. 1878. He studied under Stiglmayer and Schwanthaler 1836-40, and attracted attention by his first group, ‘Saint George and the Dragon,’ the Austrian government then appointing him director of the Imperial bronze foundry at Vienna, where he executed his masterpiece, a colossal statue of Archduke Karl 1860, and his statue of Prince Eugéne 1865. Among his other works are a colossal bust of Radetsky; a marble statue of the poet Frederick Heffel, and a monument of Ressil.