Emil Fuchs (artist)

Emil Fuchs MVO (9 August 1866 – 13 January 1929) was an Austrian–American sculptor, medallist, painter, and author[1] who worked in Vienna, London and New York.

He painted portraits of Queen Victoria and Edward VII and was fashionable among London high society in the early 20th century.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Edmund von Hellmer and Viktor Oskar Tilgner.

[5] By 1905 he had been teaching at Paris, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, and Rome and was making winter trips to the United States.

He had surgery for cancer in 1928, and in anticipation of a death with great suffering he shot himself at the Hotel des Artistes in New York on 13 January 1929, aged 62.

[11] During his career in Vienna, Berlin, Rome, England and New York he created portrait busts, figurines, memorials, medals, oil paintings and other works of art.