Bust / Adolph Fischhof

Condition:
The entire surface is massively contaminated. Layers of grime are in part firmly adhering as well as stained. The paint layer displays several damages such as scratches and losses. The nose is truncated and missing. Other losses are in the area of the hair, cloak, bow tie, and of a button. The missing nose has a particularly detrimental and distorting effect on the bust's overall appearance.

Measures:
Removal of surface contamination and cleaning of color coating. Filling and retouching of losses in the area of the hair, cloak, bow tie, and of a button. The nose can be reconstructed and added only provided there are images of the depicted person available.

Required working hours:
60

Costs:
€ 2.400.-

The physician, politician, and author Adolph Fischhof, born in 1816 in Buda, Hungary, was among the most significant proponents of the Revolution of 1848. With his speech on press freedom in the court of the Niederösterreichisches Landhaus (seat of the Lower Austrian government), he provided the decisive impulse for the outbreak of the March upheavals. As president of the Viennese security committee and as representative of the Reichstag, he subsequently played an influential political role. In the wake of the victory of the reactionaries and the dissolution of the Reichstag in March 1849, he was temporarily arrested. Eventually he retired to Emmersdorf in Carinthia, where he worked as a country doctor until his death in 1893. In his political writings he advocated, according to the principles of Liberalism, equal standing for the various nations within the Habsburg Empire.