The New International Encyclopædia/Fernkorn, Anton Dominikus

FERNKORN, fārn'kōrn, Anton Dominikus (1813-78). An Austrian sculptor, born at Erfurt, in the Province of Saxony, Prussia. He was a pupil of Stiglmayer and Von Schwanthaler at Munich, and in 1840 established himself, at Vienna, where he executed his first important work, the heroic equestrian statue “Saint George and the Dragon” (courtyard of the Montenuovo Palace). In 1858 he completed for the Cathedral of Speyer six of the eight free-stone statues of the German emperors there buried. He was appointed director of the Imperial bronze-foundry at Vienna, and in that capacity did some of his best work (including the colossal esquestrian statues of the Archduke Karl and of Prince Eugene, 1860 and 1865, in the Burgplatz, Vienna). He was skillful in his designs, but frequently inclined rather to the graphic than the truly plastic.