Bitter was one of the foremost architectural sculptors working in the USA at the turn of the century. Trained originally at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vienne, Bitter came to America in 1889.
Biography
He owed his early success to the architect, Richard Morris Hunt, who employed him on several projects inculding Hunt's Fifth Avenue façade of the Metropolitan of Art for wich Bitter designed the four allegorical figures and sculptural ornaments in 1889.
