Anton Endstorfer

The Austrian sculptor and medalist Anton Endstorfer learned his art in various master classes in Wien (Vienna), where he worked until 1913. During this time, he exhibited his own works for the first time. From 1915 he was a member of the Künstlerhaus. As a freelance artist he created several monuments and public wells in Vienna, Moslar and Ybbs. During World War II he was subject to a professional ban because of his Jewish wife initiated by his colleague Wilhelm Frass, who was a Nazi sympathizer. Endstorfer was only allowed to work as an unskilled laborer in Edwin Grienauer’s workshop.

After World War II, Endstorfer worked as a freelancer again but was appointed a professor in 1949. In the late 1950s, he had to give up his job because of an eye problem. The Female ball thrower is a 43 cm high bronze. The Female relay runner was shown in 1929 in the annual exhibition of the Künstlerhaus and was awarded a cash prize.