{{Short description|Austrian sculptor (1860–1949)}} thumb|185px|Hans Bitterlich (c. 1920) thumb|325px|The Empress Elisabeth Monument
'''Hans Bitterlich''' (28 April 1860, Vienna - 5 August 1949, Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor.
== Life and work == His father was the sculptor and history painter, Eduard Bitterlich. He studied with Edmund von Hellmer and Kaspar von Zumbusch, and was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, from 1901 to 1931.
His best known works include a monument to Gutenberg in the {{ill|Lugeck|de}} district (1900), and the monument to Empress Elisabeth in the Volksgarten, both with an architectural framework by Friedrich Ohmann.<ref>[http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?apm=0&aid=iwe&datum=19031231&seite=04 "Kaiserin Elisabeth-Denkmal in Wien"] from the ''Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt'', 31 December 1903</ref>
In 1943, he was awarded the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft, and placed on the Gottbegnadeten list of Joseph Goebbels, as an important artist of the Nazi state.<ref>{{citation|surname1=Ernst Klee|title=Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945|edition=1.|publisher=S. Fischer|publication-place=Frankfurt am Main|at=p. 51|isbn=978-3-596-17153-8|date=2009|language=German }}</ref>
He was interred in the Wiener Zentralfriedhof in a {{ill|Gewidmete Gräber der Stadt Wien|de}} (Dedicated Grave).<ref>[https://www.friedhoefewien.at/grabsuche?submitHidden=true&name=Johann%20Bitterlich&jdb_von=1949&jdb_bis=1949&friedhof=046 Grabstelle Hans Bitterlich] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720213750/https://www.friedhoefewien.at/grabsuche?submitHidden=true&name=Johann%20Bitterlich&jdb_von=1949&jdb_bis=1949&friedhof=046 |date=2020-07-20 }}, Wien, Zentralfriedhof, Gruppe 32, Gruppe Erweiterung A, Nr. 51.</ref>
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== Further reading == * [https://monuments.univie.ac.at/index.php?title=Hans_Bitterlich "Hans Bitterlich"] @ University of Vienna, Monuments * {{ÖBL|1|88||Bitterlich Hans|}}
== External links == {{Commonscat|Hans Bitterlich}} * {{Austriaforum|AEIOU/Bitterlich,_Hans}} * Hedwig Abraham (Ed.): [http://www.viennatouristguide.at/Friedhoefe/Zentralfriedhof/Index_32A_Bild/32A_Bitterlich_51.htm "Ehrengrab von Vater und Sohn Bitterlich auf dem Wiener Zentralfriedhof"] @ Viennatouristguide
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