Austrian sculptor Adolf Wagner von der Mühl studied studied wood sculpturing in Ottensheim, then at the München Academy of Fine Arts and at the Wien (Vienna) Academy of Fine Arts. After being awarded the Rome Prize, he went to Italy for a year. He then worked as a freelance sculptor. In World War I he was drafted, but then discharged as unfit. Some of his public contracts could not be executed in the war and post-war years. From 1922 he named himself Wagner von der Mühl in appreciation of his Mühlviertel home. In 1923 he became a member of the Vienna Secession. Wagner von der Mühl produced big stone and marble sculptures, wooden sculptures and small bronze figures, war memorials and gravesites. In addition, he created numerous portrait busts. In 1949 he was appointed a professor in Wien, after having been lecturing there since 1934. In the 1920s Wagner created a series of small bronzes of individual footballers and groups. From the catalog of 1928, it appears that two of the three submitted works were probably groups. All are believed to date from 1925.
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