WEYR, RUDOLF VON (1847-1914), Austrian sculptor, was born on Mar. 22, 1847, at Vienna, and received his art educa tion at the academy in his native city. He concerned himself most with decorative sculpture, chiefly in the revived rococo style. This he executed with great facility and rapidity, excelling especially in relief. His work perhaps shows no great depth of thought but does reveal an amazing faculty of decorative inven tion. Special mention should be made of the frieze of the Triumph of Bacchus in the Hofburg theatre, his Furies and Graces in the Raimund theatre, the frieze in the rotunda of the Art Museum of Vienna glorifying the Hapsburgs as patrons of art, decorations in the Natural History Museum, the reliefs from Grillparzer's dramas on his monument at the entrance of the Volksgarten. the
fountain representing Naval Power on the facade of the Hofburg and his statue of the painter Hans Canon in the Stadt-Park.