Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg

Statue of St. Servatius in front of the Liesing parish church , work by Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg

Mother with children, on Hohenbergstrasse in Vienna-Meidling

Four evangelists at the church tower of the Roman Catholic. Herz-Jesu-Friedenskirche "Wienerwalddom" in Eichgraben . These 2.15 m high, winged sculptures made of St. Margarethen sand-lime stone - a human bust in the east symbolizes Matthew, a lion bust in the south Markus, a bull bust in the north Luke and an eagle in the west Johannes - come from Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg.

Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg (born January 7, 1911 in Wilhelmsburg , † October 23, 1955 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor . His mostly sacred and religiously inspired works are characterized by a spiritual proximity to Expressionism and modernity .

Life

Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg (AT-T.) Was born in 1911 as the seventh child of a saddle maker. His technical training began at an early age at the Federal School for Woodworking in Hallstatt (1925–1929) and was completed by studying sculpture at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna (later University of Applied Arts Vienna ) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1934. His teachers included Eugen Steinhof , Clemens Holzmeister and above all Anton Hanak , whose master class he attended. Anton Hanak, with whom he had a personal friendship until his death, had a formative influence on art and the understanding of art AT-T. He mediated AT-T. commissioned work during his student days and selected him as one of his students to work on the monumental security monument in Ankara .

The then founded Turkish Republic was particularly interested in the work of Western artists, so AT-T. in the years from 1936 to 1938 it was possible to live as a freelance artist. In 1938, when Rudolf Belling was appointed, he was appointed professor of wood, stone carving and ornamental writing at the Turkish State Art Academy in Istanbul . Only after the beginning of the war did he feel compelled to leave Turkey due to political pressure in 1941 and returned to Austria, where he was drafted into the German armed forces that same year.

After a short captivity, AT-T took effect. as a freelance artist. The majority of his works fall into this creative period and consist of v. a. in commissioned works by the Catholic Church and the Second Republic. In addition to these public works, freelance work was created to a similar extent, which shaped his artistic reputation through exhibitions in the Vienna Seccesion, the Künstlerhaus Wien and the Künstlerhaus Salzburg. He was an active member of the Künstlerhaus in Vienna.

Works

Commissioned works

• Vienna
  • Austrian national coat of arms of the Albertina (Vienna) , 1951
  • Relief mother with children at Hohenbergstrasse 14–16, 1953
  • Statue of St. Servatius in Liesing Parish Church , 1954
  • Figure of St. Severin Lazarist Church (Währing) , 1952
  • Bird drinking fountain of the City of Vienna , 1954
• Lower Austria
  • Reliefs of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Gmünd) , 1953
  • Schubert Monument in Wilhelmsburg , 1931
  • War memorial in Wilhelmsburg in collaboration with Anton Hanak , 1932
  • Reliefs and depictions of the Evangelists in the Prandauerkirche in St. Pölten , 1949–1950
  • Larger-than-life tower sculptures and crucifixion group of the church in Eichgraben , 1949–1950
  • High altar sculpture of the Ulmerfeld church near Amstetten, 1953 ( see list of listed objects in Amstetten )
• Turkey
  • Parts of the Monument of Trust in Ankara (Güven Anıtı), 1936
  • Portrait bust Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , 1938
  • Larger- than-life portrait bust İsmet İnönü , commissioned by the city of Ankara , 1938

Free work ATT's free work focuses on religious topics and especially on the different depictions of the motifs "mother and child" and "embrace".

• Hug, cast bronze 1949

literature

• Hermann Fillitz : The sculpture in modern church architecture in Austria. In: The Minster. Journal for Christian Art and Art History. 8th year, issue 3/4, Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich 1955.
• Clara Treberspurg: Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg. Master's thesis at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Vienna 2008.
• Wilhelm Zotti : Church art in Lower Austria. Diocese of St. Pölten. Volume 2: Parish and branch churches north of the Danube. 1st edition. Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, 1986, ISBN 3-85326-813-7 .
• Friedrich Grassegger, Wolfgang Krug (Ed.): Anton Hanak. 1875-1934. Böhlau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-205-98599-0 .
• Martin Treberspurg (Ed.): Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg 1911-1955. Künstlerhaus Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-900354-28-2 . (Accompanying the exhibition A Sculptor Between Times with Contributions by Jürgen Borchhardt , Thomas Pulle and Peter Bogner)

Web links

Commons : Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Artist page