Adolf Halbreiter

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Adolf Halbreiter (born May 13, 1839 in Rosenheim , † June 28, 1898 in Munich ) was a German artisan , especially gold and silversmith , chaser and designer.

Life

Adolf Halbreiter was born the son of the doctor Michael Halbreiter (1811-1881), a brother of the history painter and silver worker Ulrich Halbreiter , and his wife Josepha, née Freiin von Sauer, in Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria, where the father settled as a general practitioner and owner of a bath would have. Adolf's sisters Anna (* 1837) and Bertha (* 1840) were born in Rosenheim. Of the other five siblings born in Munich from 1841 onwards, only the brothers Emil (1843–1891) and Wilhelm (* 1847) reached adulthood. Josepha Halbreiter died in 1848.

After his wife's death, Michael Halbreiter joined the Russian military as a military doctor . For his work in the siege of Sevastopol (1854/55) he was awarded a medal and appointed Imperial Russian Councilor . Adolf attended the Catholic cathedral school and for a few months the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich . From 1854 he went to his uncle Ulrich Halbreiter, who ran a workshop for jewelry and decorative objects in Munich, as an apprenticeship . He then attended the drawing school of the Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association under the direction of Hermann Dyck and finally changed on May 20, 1859 to the class of antiquities at the Munich Art Academy under Johann Georg Hiltensperger and to the sculpture class of Max von Widnmann . From 1862 to 1866 he trained in Paris with the goldsmith Charles Christofle and the brothers Auguste Fannière (1818–1900) and Joseph Fannière (1820–1897) as a silversmith and chaser . In 1866 he took part as a soldier in the war of the South German Confederation against Prussia.

Around 1871 he founded his own metalworking workshop in Munich. In 1880 Halbreiter married Cäcilie Sedelmayr. Of the four children from this marriage, the eldest son, Bernhard Halbreiter , became a sculptor. Fritz von Miller , professor of metalwork and chasing at the newly founded arts and crafts school, was his brother-in-law. When he was appointed professor and head of the modeling and chasing department at the Dresden School of Applied Arts in 1878 , King Ludwig II did not want to lose the talented artist: he appointed him titular professor and tied him to Munich through lucrative assignments. Halbreiter was a member of the Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft (MKG) and the Kunstgewerbeverein as well as an honorary member of the association for the preservation of the folk costume "The Wallberger" in Rottach-Egern , whose club badge he designed and modeled in 1889.

In 1886, Halbreiter was granted citizenship in Munich and had lived with his family at Sophienstrasse 1a since 1887, in the immediate vicinity of the Glass Palace. His workshop was in the nearby Karlstrasse, No. 42 (rear building). After a disease of rheumatoid arthritis had increasingly made it impossible for him to work on his own, Adolf Halbreiter died shortly before the age of 61 and was buried in the Auer Friedhof (today Ostfriedhof ):

plant

Adolf Halbreiter made a name for himself with his production of fine brooches and decorative pins , table decorations, cups and female lustres based on his own and other people's designs. Stylistically, he orientated himself in his drafts and executed work on the historical styles , especially in the architecture and interior design, and thus adapted himself to the taste of his time or that of his clients.

Selection of works

  • Gas chandelier (design: Rudolf Seitz); Fig .: ZdKGV 1879, pl. 2;
  • Wall lamp (design and execution: A. Halbreiter); Fig .: ZdKGV 1879, pl. 3;
  • Chandelier (design by Gabriel Seidl); Fig .: ZdKGV 1879, pl. 31;
  • Ladies bag (design: A. Halbreiter); Fig .: ZdKGV 1879, pl. 33;
  • Neck hangings / bridal jewelry for Caecilie Sedelmayr (design and execution: A. Halbreiter), ill .: ZdKGV 1880, pl. 16;
  • Gothic style chandelier with 24 arms and 120 flames, 1880 (design: Georg Hauberisser);
  • Wrought iron chandelier (design: Rudolf Seitz); Fig .: ZdKGV 1881, pl. 37;
  • Chandelier for gas for Kommerzienrat JCSchön in Worms (design: G. Seidl; figurative decorations: Cramer); Fig .: ZdKGV 1882, pl. 5;
  • Two trophies (design: R. Seitz, honorary gifts to a bowling party); Fig .: ZdKGV 1882, pl. 13 + 14;
  • Female chandelier with deer antlers and sea girl playing syringes (design: Ludwig Herterich); Fig .: ZdKGV 1882, pl. 24;
  • Shrine of jewelry and orders for Prince Leopold of Bavaria, 1882 (commissioned by the Emperor of Austria);
  • Centerpiece in the Renaissance style with a St. Hubertus group; Commissioned by SM Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (design and execution: A. Halbreiter); Fig .: ZdKGV 1883, pl. 25;
  • Candlesticks; Commissioned by HRH Prince Arnulf of Bavaria (design and execution: A. Halbreiter); Fig .: ZdKGV 1883, pl. 30;
  • Chandelier for gas driven in copper (design and execution: A. Halbreiter); Fig .: ZdKGV 1883, pl. 36;
  • Homage sheet with diploma cover for ore caster Ferdinand von Miller sen. (Design: R. Seitz); Middle section, corners and clasps: A. Halbreiter; Fig .: ZdKGV 1884, pl. 12;
  • "Alma Julia and female representatives of the 4 faculties", centerpiece as a foundation of Ludwig II. To the University of Würzburg for the 3rd secular celebration (Fig .: Zeitschr. D. Mü. Kunstgewerbevereins 1886, pls. 1, 2; Pecht, 1888, p. 473);
  • Chandelier for the representation hall and 24-armed bronze chandelier for the meeting room in the New Town Hall in Munich.
  • Cup of honor for the 25th anniversary of the k. Bavarian government councilor Albert Jäger, director of the Palatinate railways; Silver (draft: Anton Hess).

Fonts

  • Diary of a Bavarian warrior. 1866, In: Charivari. 1 (1975), p. 4, pp. 19-21 (excerpts from the war diary of the Rosenheim bath owner's son).

Archival material

  • Registration documents (PMB) Adolf, Emil and Michael Halbreiter: Munich, City Archives.
  • Registration documents (PMB) Fritz von Miller: Munich, City Archives.
  • Matriculation 1849/50: Maximiliansgymnasium Munich, archive.
  • 01566 Adolf Halbreiter. In: Matriculation Book 1841–1884. Academy dbK Munich ( matrikel.adbk.de ).

literature

  • Journal of the art-trade association in Munich. Fig .: 1879, plates 2, 3, 31, 33; 1881, pl. 37; 1882, pl. 5, 24; 1883, pl. 25, 30.
  • Visual arts magazine. Art Chronicle supplement, No. 26, April 8, 1880.
  • Georg Lehnert (Hrsg.): Illustrated history of the applied arts. Volume 2, Berlin 1882, Fig. 552.
  • Friedrich Pecht: History of Munich Art. Munich 1888, p. 473 (ill.).
  • Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein (ed.): Arts and crafts. Applied Arts and Crafts Journal. 47, 1897/98, pp. 388-391.
  • Spiritual Germany at the end of the 19th century Century. In: Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches. Volume 1: The visual artists. Röder, Leipzig 1898, p. 264.
  • Munich Latest News (MNN). 293, June 30, 1898 (obituary); No. 296, Jul 1, 1898, Local (Funeral); No. 299, July 3, 1898 (Acknowledgments).
  • Max Fürst (Ed.): Biographical lexicon for the area between Inn and Salzach. Munich 1901.
  • Hyacinth Hollandhalf rider, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 785 f.
  • Half rider, Adolph . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 497–498 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • 125 years of the Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association. Stadtmuseum München, July 7th - October 10th 1976. Catalog, pp. 80, 83 (No. 129, 130).
  • City archive Munich (ed.), Brigitte Huber: The new town hall in Munich. Georg von Hauberisser (1841–1922) and his main work. Munich 2005, p. 102 and pl. 8 and p. 104 and pl. 13, 13a.
  • Siegfried Weiß : Half rider, Adolf . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 68, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23035-6 , p. 145.
  • Siegfried Weiß: Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 51–55 (Fig.)

Individual evidence

  1. * March 28, 1814 in Munich, † December 18, 1848 in Munich; Parents: Iganz Freiherr von Sauer, captain, citizen and trader, and Maria, b. Buchner, daughter of an innkeeper from Munich.
  2. * October 10, 1856 in Munich, † July 10, 1916; Daughter of the brewer "zum Oberspaten" (Spatenbräu), Gabriel von Sedelmayr , and Anna Rosalia, nee. Schwangart; Sisters: Rosina (1854–1918) and Helene (1858–1926)