Siegfried Charoux

Siegfried Joseph Charoux (15 November 1896 – 26 April 1967) was an artist, primarily a figurative sculptor working in bronze, stone, or terracotta.

Later, as a political gesture and a derivative of Chat Roux (Red Cat) he changed the spelling of his surname to Charoux in 1926, at the time of his marriage to Margarethe Treibl (1895 - 1985).

Margarethe was in international textile trader who traveled extensively and introduced Charoux's sculptures to many of the countries in which she traded.

After the Second World War, Charoux was commissioned to replace the lost memorial with a bronze copy, which was unveiled in 1968, the year after his death, at Morzinplatz [de] in Vienna.

[1] His terracotta statue Youth: Standing Boy (1948) - built using an Etruscan technique in layers without an armature - was bought by the Tate Gallery in 1948, using funds from the Chantrey Bequest.

Charoux's style altered dramatically when he created The Pedestrian (1951) which acknowledged an early influence of American culture in post-war London.

He also made nine monumental figures, 8 feet (2.4 m) tall, embodying Manual and Spiritual Labour, for the new Salters' Hall, also designed by Basil Spence.

His remains were cremated at Golders Green crematorium, and the ashes deposited at Sulz im Wienerwald [de], then moved to the Vienna's Central Cemetery, the Wiener Zentralfriedhof, in 1977.