Albert Jele

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Albert Jele

Albert Jele (born April 29, 1844 in Innsbruck ; † October 13, 1900 there ) was an Austrian art historian . From 1874 to 1898 he was director of the Tiroler Glasmalereianstalt , which enjoyed a great boom under him.

Life

Albert Jele was born in Innsbruck in 1844 as the eldest son of the painter Caspar Jele and his wife Anna. He graduated from the state high school in Innsbruck with honors and attended his father's drawing school on Sundays. After graduating from high school, his father took him on a trip to see the art treasures in Munich .

Since at that time only the art history of antiquity was taught at the University of Innsbruck , but not the later epochs, Jele enrolled in classical philology . He also studied at the universities of Münster and Vienna and received his doctorate in philosophy in Innsbruck in 1867.

Jele learned French and English, including during longer stays in Lausanne and England, as well as Italian and Spanish. During major trips to Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, England, and Italy, he dealt with history and art history and prepared for a lectureship.

In 1861 Albert Neuhauser , Josef von Stadl and Georg Mader founded the Tyrolean glass painting company. After Neuhauser withdrew for health reasons, Albert Jele followed suit and became director in 1874. Under his leadership, the glass painting company took off rapidly and received orders from all over Europe and North America. In 1880 he founded a branch in Vienna. Was considered a duty of 45% decided on imports of glass windows to the United States, traveled to America Jele and founded under the name Tirolese Art Glass Co. a branch in New York .

Albert Jele was an art collector and donated a number of works to museums, especially the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum , which made him an honorary member.

In December 1868 he married Angelika Streiter (* 1830), a daughter of the Bolzano mayor Joseph Streiter . After his father left the company, the son Fritz became a partner in the Tyrolean glass painting establishment for a short time.

1898 Jele pulled back from the line of stained glass institution, on October 13, 1900, he died of lung and pleurisy .

Awards

literature

  • Jele, Albert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 96.
  • Conrad Fischnaler: Albert Jele †. In: Journal of the Ferdinandeum for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, 3rd episode, 45th issue, 1901, pp. V-IX ( PDF; 554 kB )
  • † Dr. Albert Jele and the Tyrolean stained glass. In: Archives for Christian Art. Organ of the Rottenburg Diocesan Association for Christian Art. No. 3, 1901, pp. 17–19, No. 4, pp. 27–30 ( digitized version )
  • Reinhard Rampold: 140 years of the Tyrolean glass painting and mosaic company 1861–2001. ( PDF; 747 kB )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margot Pizzini (edit.): Estate of Joseph Streiter. South Tyrolean Provincial Archives, Bozen 1998 ( PDF; 355 kB )
  2. ^ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (ed.): Kulturberichte aus Tirol 2013. 64th Monument Report. Innsbruck 2013, p. 16 ( PDF; 11.5 MB )
personal data
SURNAME Jele, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian, director of the Tiroler Glasmalereianstalt
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1900
Place of death innsbruck