Albert Bechtold

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Albert Bechtold: Memorial plaque for Kaspar Hagen at the lake chapel in Bregenz, 1923
Albert Bechtold: St. Michael at the parish church Mariahilf in Bregenz
Albert Bechtold: War memorial at the parish church of St. Gallus in Bregenz, 1931

Albert Bechtold (born October 5, 1885 in Bregenz , † July 23, 1965 in Schwarzach ) was an Austrian sculptor.

Life

Albert Bechtold came on October 5, 1885 as the eldest of seven children of Gottfried Bechtold and his wife Theresia born. Salzgeber in Bregenz to the world. From 1900 to 1903 he completed his stonemason training in his father's company and at the same time attended the municipal trade school in Munich. This was followed by further training at the stone processing school in Laas and again at the municipal trade school in Munich. From 1906 Albert Bechtold studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

During the First World War , Bechtold served as Kaiserjäger on the Italian front. In August 1917 he married Marianne Thum from South Tyrol.

From the end of the war, Bechtold lived and worked in Bregenz. He designed numerous drafts for war memorials and also implemented some of them himself. From 1924, his work was increasingly influenced by Cubism . From 1934 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but was deposed in 1938 by the provincial leadership of the NSDAP as acting management of the university, which consisted of Ferdinand Andri , Wilhelm Dachauer and Alexander Popp .

In 1939 Bechtold moved to Schwarzach. During and after the Second World War, he was denied major artistic or economic success. After a stroke on March 1, 1954, he was paralyzed on one side. Albert Bechtold died in Schwarzach on July 23, 1965.

Works

  • 1923: St. George of the former war memorial at the cemetery in Lochau
  • 1923: Marian sculpture at the Mehrerau sanatorium (architect Clemens Holzmeister ) in Bregenz
  • 1923: Crucifix on the war memorial in the choir of the Kreuzkirche am Ölrain in Bregenz
  • 1923: Memorial plaque to the dialect poet Kaspar Hagen at the lake chapel in Bregenz
  • 1924: Bust of Rudolf Wacker (Wackerkopf), wood, on loan from the city of Bregenz in the vorarlberg museum
  • 1928: Well mask in the cemetery at Taxispark in Bregenz
  • around 1930: Bronze sculpture on the cemetery chapel at the Evangelical Cemetery in Bregenz
  • 1931: War memorial at the parish church Bregenz-St. Gallus
  • 1932: Mourning woman at the war memorial at the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Lustenau
  • War memorial at the parish church of St. Agnes in Höchst
  • Baptismal font in the parish church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Bregenz
  • 1932/1933: Relief St. Michael and crucifix of the parish church Mariahilf (Heldendankkirche) in Bregenz
  • 1935: stone figure St. Michael and war memorial in the staircase of the parish church Frastanz
  • Memorial plaque for Hildegard Burjan with portrait relief in the Christ the King's Church in Vienna
  • War memorial at the parish church of Klaus

literature

  • Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 , list of artists.
  • Gabriele Koller, Gloria Withalm: The expulsion of the spiritual from Austria, 1985, p. 108
  • Ingrid Adamer: Albert Bechtold 1885–1965. Verlag Böhlau, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-2059-9494-9 .

Web links

Commons : Albert Bechtold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingrid Adamer, Albert Bechtold 1885-1965, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, p. 225.
  2. ↑ Dr. Ingrid Adamer: Albert Bechtold . Biography. In: Marktgemeinde Lustenau (ed.): The Lustenauer war memorial - origin and history . Lustenau 2013 (for the entire “Life” section).
personal data
SURNAME Bechtold, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1965
Place of death Schwarzach