Schönau near Neutitschein 1868 – 1931 Vienna
Sculptor, woodcarver and ceramist
1888–97 Studied woodcarving at the Vienna School of Applied Arts.
1890–1904 Barwig worked as a freelance sculptor, 1904/05 as a teacher at the Technical College for Woodworking in Villach. 1910–1922 Teacher at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. 1931 Memorial exhibition at the Vienna Secession, exhibition at the Austrian Gallery. Models for the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory Augarten and the Wienerberger Brickworks and Construction Company. Many of his sculptures are in the Austrian Gallery in the Belvedere.
Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. 2, p. 587; W. Neuwirth, Wiener Keramik, p. 102; Austrian Gallery in the Upper Belvedere, 1969, Franz Barwig
