Hellmuth Marx (Linz, 1915 - Lienz, 2002) was an Austrian sculptor whose work, centred on the human body, developed mainly in Carinthia and Styria in the second half of the twentieth century. His name did not gain wide recognition beyond his region, but his career shows the continuity of academic sculpture in Austria after the Second World War.
He trained in Graz, where he studied architecture at the technical university while also enrolling at the Styrian school of arts, with teachers such as Daniel Pauluzzi, Alfred Wickenburg and Fritz Silberbauer. After military service and the war, which took him as far as Narvik, he resumed his training at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the sculpture class of Josef Müllner. From 1948 he worked as an independent sculptor from Heiligenblut, and later settled permanently in Oberdrauburg.
His style was oriented towards the neoclassical tendencies of the 1920s and 1930s, and he remained faithful to it even as the avant-garde gained ground. He worked in marble, clay, granite, sandstone and plaster, but preferred wood. He made several sculptures for Oberdrauburg, among them a fountain figure of a young woman in traditional dress holding the town crest. A large lime tree that dominated the main square was felled, and its wood became material for numerous carvings. His sculpture "Mutter und Kind" (Mother and Child) is part of the 21er Haus in Vienna, and the restoration of religious buildings was an important part of his work.
Drawing and painting, which formed part of his training, he practised throughout his career, mainly watercolours and oils, many on fibreboard. Later he also took up photography, although the negatives of his portraits have been lost. His legacy remains chiefly in Oberdrauburg and the Carinthian region, where his works and restorations form part of the local heritage.