Carl Kundmann (born June 15, 1838 in Vienna, † June 9, 1919) was an Austrian sculptor. He is considered one of the masters of the Ringstrasse era, where he held numerous decorative works. Kundmann was a pupil of Franz Bauer and Ernst Julius Hähnel in Dresden. From 1865 to 1867 he lived during a stay in Rome, where he also worked on the design of the Schubert memorial in Vienna's Stadtpark. Was commissioned by the Vienna Men's Choral Society, whose members in 1862 had decided to erect a monument to the composer. In 1864 it was decided that there should be at the city park, according to the ideas of the choral society in the later because of the bust there established the Mayor of Vienna Andreas Zelinka Zelinkahügel as known, only high point of the park. The Artistic Advisory Committee of the urban extension but decided that a less prominent, would be "more intimate" appropriate place. The foundation stone was laid in 1868, in the presence of some relatives and Zelinkas Mayor Schubert. The statue of the composer, who, seated, is shown with a music book in her lap and a pencil in his right hand, was built between trees in the lawn. Three reliefs on the pedestal designed by Theophil Hansen put in allegories right vocal music, instrumental music, and left at the front of the imagination dar. The inscription reads: Franz Schubert. His memory, the Vienna Men's Choral Society. The 15 May 1872 revealed work was such a success that Kundmann was then appointed professor at the Universal School of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he taught until 1909. Kund's early work to include the four life-size portrait statues made of white Carrara marble, which he for the Feldherrnhalle in 1856 completed "kuk Force Museum "(now Museum of Military History) anfertigte.
