Edmund von Hellmer

Edmund Ritter von Hellmer (12 November 1850, Vienna – 9 March 1935, Vienna), born Edmund Hellmer and ennobled in 1912, was an Austrian sculptor who worked in the styles of Historicism and Art Nouveau.

At the same time, he received his first artistic training from his uncle, the sculptor Josef Schönfeld.

In 1866, Hellmer decided to study sculpture full-time at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

While there, he also worked in the studio of Hanns Gasser, who helped him to finance a short stay in Paris.

In 1869, at the age of 19, he presented a statue of Prometheus at the International Art Exhibition in Munich.