Equestrian of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
The Austrian sculptor Heinrich Krippel[1] worked three years on it (1928-1931). Official dedication in Samsun January 15, 1932.
See also : Anton Hanak and Josef Thorak. Other Austrian artists who created M.Kemal Ataturk monumental sculptures in Turkey.
[1] HEINRICH KRIPPEL (b. Sep.17,1883 in Wien - d. Apr. 5, 1945)
Viennese sculptor, engraver, painter and illustrator. He joined the I. World War as artilleryman. He was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, in the studio of Edmund von Hellmer and Hans Bitterlich. The artist took part in the Secessions and came to Turkey when he won a competition for a monument of victory in Ankara. He executed several monuments in Turkey during his 13-year stay. He realized in 1926 the Statue of Atatürk in Sarayburnu, the Statue of Atatürk in Konya; in 1927, he made the Equestrian Statue of Atatürk in Ankara; 1931 brought the Equestrian Statue of Atatürk in Samsun; 1935, the Monument of Victory in Afyon; 1938, the Monument of Atatürk in front of the Sümerbank Building in Ankara. All of them were made in the artist's studio in Vienna and cast in Vereinigte Metallwerke. He went back to Vienna in 1938 intending to return to Turkey, but when World War II broke out, he remained there and died in 1945.
Sources:
Sibel Bozdogan, Modernism and Nation Building. Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic, University of Washington Press, Seattle; London 2001, ISBN 0295981105
Wacha: Krippel, Heinrich. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Band 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1969, S. 275.
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