Alojz Rigele

[1] He spent most of his life working in today's Bratislava, where numerous examples of his statues survive to this day.

[3] Rigele was an active member of the Pressburger Kunstverein group[4] and the Bratislava Beautification Association.

His early education was at the modelling studio of the Bratislava decorative sculptor Adolf Messmer.

As a winner of Péter Pázmány's epitaph in 1907, Rigele got a 2-year study opportunity at Rome where he lived from 1908 to 1910.

Numerous statues survive in public spaces particularly in Bratislava, but also in over 50 villages and towns in Slovakia, Austria and Hungary.

Altogether, he used the studio for four decades and even long after his death in 1940 and the studio's later nationalization, there were parts of unfinished artworks lying around together with rare building materials including a piece of marble from the destroyed equestrian statue of Maria Theresa which stood at the today's Námestíe Ľ. Štúra.

The studio is a Category 1A Cultural Monument of Bratislava under the name Ateliér firmy Mahr a Alojza Rigeleho.