The sculptor and painter Josef Riedl is mainly remembered for architectural construction and large sculptures. He worked mainly on small sculptures, figural sculptures and sgraffiti on the facade of his buildings. His focus in the 1920s and 1930s was the development of social housing. He was the son of a wood sculptor and was trained at the State Craft School in Wien (Vienna). He then studied at the Vienna Academy. From 1902-05 Riedl studied at the special school for large sculptures of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wien. In 1910 he received a scholarship in Roma. After being wounded on the Eastern Front in World War I he became a professor at the military school in Wien. His son Rupert Riedl became one of the most famous zoology professors in Austria and wrote a biography of his father Leben und Schaffen des Bildhauers Josef Riedl (Life and Work of Sculptor Josef Riedl).
Austria