Albert Neuhauser

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Albert Neuhauser (born May 12, 1832 in Innsbruck ; † January 18, 1901 there ) was an Austrian glass painter and one of the founders of the Tyrolean glass painting company .

Life

Allegory of the Kingdom of Bohemia, mosaic based on a model by František Urban, Prague, Na příkopě 20
Allegory of the City of Prague, Old Town Square 6
Mosaics in Prague, Na Příkopě 20

Albert Neuhauser learned and worked first with his father, the plumber and glazier Anton Neuhauser in Innsbruck. Since he could no longer work in his father's workshop due to a lung disease, he began to work on glass painting. After studying at the Königliche Glasmalereianstalt in Munich , he attempted to make glass paintings himself and set up a kiln in his parents' house . The architect Josef von Stadl , who was concerned with glass painting and who visited him on the occasion of the production of a test window, made contact with the painter Georg Mader . Together the three founded the Tyrolean glass painting company in Sterzing in 1861 . Mader took over the figural, Stadl the decorative drawings and Neuhauser took over the technical production as well as the commercial area. Soon the company was very successful in producing stained glass windows for churches and secular buildings throughout the monarchy and beyond. Since the premises were insufficient, Neuhauser had a new building built in Müllerstrasse in Wilten from 1870 to 1873 with the support of his father according to Stadl's plans . In 1874 Neuhauser retired as a partner in the glass painting company for health reasons, and the art historian Albert Jele took over for him . Inspired by a visit to Venice , Neuhauser founded a mosaic workshop in 1877, the first in Austria. This was combined with the glass painting establishment in 1900.

In the years 1896–1898 he made mosaics based on the templates of the Prague painter František Urban for two Prague palaces: a lunette with an allegory of the city of Prague for the building of the Prague Municipal Insurance Company on 6 Old Town Square (now the Ministry) and 22 figural mosaics for the Palace of the Handelsbank in Prague-Neustadt, Na příkopě 20 (Am Graben), all of which were realized by Luigi Solerti from Innsbruck.

For the introduction of mosaic art he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tagblatt Politik No. 145, May 27, 1900, page 8, ( http://kramerius.nkp.cz/kramerius/ontheflypdf_PGetPdf?app=11&id=951614&start=8&end=9 )
  2. ↑ Liselotte Schwab: Homage to a murdered Empress: the Elisabeth Chapel in the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Jubiläumskirche in Vienna II., Mexikoplatz. Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg 2010, p. 159 ( digitized in the Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Neuhauser, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian glass painter, founder of the Tiroler Glasmalereianstalt
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1901
Place of death innsbruck