Adam Rammelmayer

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Adam Rammelmayer. Portrait of Carl Rahl (1835)

Adam Rammelmayer (also Ramelmayer or Ramelmayr ; born January 28, 1807 in Vienna , † March 20, 1887 there ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

From 1827 Rammelmayer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he also received several awards, such as the Neulingspreis (1830), the Reichelpreis (1932) and the great sculptor prize of Milan (1833, for the figure group Androclus and the Lion ). In the years from 1840 to 1844 he received a scholarship at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. In 1843 he became a member of the Vienna Academy and in 1849 he was also a member of the study reform commission.

Rammelmayer called himself a history sculptor and tried to give the sculpture new impulses through Christian and romantic content. Friendships with artistic and political personalities of his time are documented, such as Friedrich von Amerling , Adolf Fischhof and Maximilian von Spaun .

Main work

Heldenberg memorial with busts of Rammelmayer

The more than 180 portrait busts for the Heldenberg memorial in Kleinwetzdorf , Lower Austria , which he commissioned Joseph Gottfried Pargfrieder (whom he met while studying in Rome) and together with his colleagues Anton Dietrich and Johann Baptist Feßler can be described as Rammelmayer's main work (both students of Josef Klieber at the Viennese engraving school). The casting took place in the Salm'schen and Mohrenberg'schen foundry in Blansko (Moravia). Originally the busts had a light colored surface. The current black surface was probably not applied until 1936 during a restoration . The busts were common in those days for plastics used cast zinc - more accurately a zinc alloy with small amounts of copper and aluminum  - made only four statues are made of cast iron , a comparatively more complex procedure.

The criticism of the Heldenberg complex and thus also of his sculptural work is said to have caused Rammelmayer to give up artistic activity. Apart from these zinc and iron castings, only a few works by his hand are known, such as the Rebekka fountain in Franziskanerplatz 1 in the 1st district of Vienna ; two statue models in the meeting room of the Old Town Hall ; a marble statuette of Prince Metternich in Enzesfeld Castle and a marble seated figure of Archduke Carl of Austria , as well as a few more.

Works (excerpt)

literature

Web links

Commons : Adam Rammelmayer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rammelmayer, Adam . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 597 .
  2. ↑ Adam Rammelmayer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 408.
  3. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 139 f.
  4. ↑ cf. Text of the Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum on geschichte.landesmuseum.net, accessed on February 22, 2013.
  5. ^ Copy of it on artfact.com , accessed February 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Rammelmayer, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramelmayr, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1887
Place of death Vienna