Albrecht Steiner von Felsburg
Albrecht Carl Steiner Edler von Felsburg (born February 25, 1838 in Vienna-Josefstadt ; † October 31, 1905 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian Nazarene painter , restorer and architect.
Origin and life
Albrecht Steiner v. Felsburg - mostly called Albrecht v. Felsburg - was a son of (Jakob) Josef Steiner Edlen v. Felsburg (* 1786 in Vienna, † January 29, 1857 in Stuttgart) and his wife Antonie Edle v. Ferrari (* 1811 in Trient, † 1842 in Vienna), whose family originally came from Tyrol. His father Josef Steiner v. Felsburg first studied (1804–1808) law in Jena , stayed in Weimar in 1806, then in Vienna (residence at Minoritenplatz No. 38), worked here as an official ("liquidator") of the Austrian National Bank and finally moved in 1855 with his Family moved to Stuttgart, where he died two years later. The maternal grandfather was an official at the prince-bishop's court of Trento , but later emigrated to Vienna. In addition to their son Albrecht, the couple had a daughter named Mathilde Barbara (born September 1, 1832 in Vienna-Josefstadt, † December 1, 1905 in Innsbruck).
When Felsburg was 4 years old, his mother died. At the age of 9 he came to the Protestant educational institute Schnepfenthal near Gotha in Thuringia in 1847, although he was baptized a Catholic himself . In 1855 he went with the family to Stuttgart , where he attended high school. On June 13, 1856 Albrecht v. According to the registry book of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Felsburg invited me to study art there. At first he studied architecture according to his father's wishes, but after his death he turned completely to painting and became an enthusiastic student of Johann von Schraudolph . In 1858 his sister moved to Munich with him, in 1859 he was called up for military service, but a short time later he was released for health reasons. In 1860 he became a member of the Munich Association for Christian Art .
In 1860 Felsburg left the Munich Academy, made up the high school diploma he had neglected to study in art, and in 1863 entered the Benedictine Abbey of St. Boniface in Munich as a novice . After a year and a half stay and intensive consultations with his abbot Daniel Bonifaz von Haneberg (later Bishop of Speyer ) he decided to leave the abbey because he did not feel called to the monastic life. In the wake of the German-German War of 1866, Albrecht v. Felsburg and his sister went to Tyrol, where he later settled in Innsbruck as a painter of ecclesiastical art, and in 1873 he and his sister Mathilde bought the house at Museumstrasse 26. Albrecht Steiner v. Felsburg (like his sister Mathilde) is buried in the St. Nikolaus cemetery in Innsbruck.
Artistic work
Albrecht Steiner v. As a late Nazarene, Felsburg not only occupies an important position among church painters in the late 19th century, but also created canvases and led numerous restorations. Particularly noteworthy are the numerous surviving sketches by the master, which give us an insight into his precise and conscientious nature of the preparatory work. Every single work became the subject of loving, in-depth studies, the implementation of which was mostly undertaken by Felsburg himself or one of his many students. Together with his pupil Heinrich Kluibenschedl , he decorated the facade of the parish church of St. Nicholas in the community of Proveis with a mural of St. Nicholas, and in 1889 he painted the newly built Sacred Heart Church near the Vincentinum (Brixen) and restored it the cathedral there also contains the frescoes by Paul Troger (1698–1762). Felsburg removed Troger's dummy dome and covered the original quadrature painting with a neo-baroque stucco decoration. For the new execution of Troger's dome painting in Brixner Dom, he used the draft by Troger with Minerva, accompanied by virtues, which was intended for the staircase of Stift Geras in Lower Austria, as a template.
Albrecht Steiner v. Felsburg was the teacher of the painters Heinrich Kluibenschedl , Emanuel Raffeiner , Franz Spörr , Father Johann Maria Reiter , but also the Augsburg artist Schnitzler.
He was a very devout and practicing Catholic. Despite his resignation from the Benedictine order , Felsburg led a life oriented towards the spiritual ideal of monasticism and, by his own admission, had also made the promise to create only religious art, but nothing profane .
student
- Anton Dürrmüller from St. Gallen
- Johann Ertl from Tyrol
- Heinrich Kluibenschedl (1849–1929) from Tyrol
- Josef Mennel (1851–1930) from Tyrol
- Hans Rabensteiner from Tyrol
- Emanuel Raffeiner (1881–1923)
- Johann Maria Reiter (1851-1924)
- Hermann Seidler from Constance
- Franz Spörr from Tyrol
grandfather
Albrecht Steiner v. Felsburg's grandfather, Johann (Baptist) Steiner v. Felsburg (* 1756, † February 24, 1832 in Mödling / Lower Austria), originally from Holleischen in Bohemia, was her first marriage with Barbara Spengler and her second marriage with Anna Maria Reinhold (born July 4, 1762 in Vienna), a sister by Carl Leonhard Reinhold , married. He lived at Minoritenplatz No. 38 in Vienna and held the office of kk real court secretary of the united ("Hofkanzelley") court chancellery in Vienna (which was then at Wipplingerstraße No. 384), in which function he was awarded the title "Edler" by the Kaiser in 1813 v. Felsburg "was raised to the hereditary Austrian nobility. Johann Steiner v. Felsburg was born next to his second wife Maria Anna. Reinhold is buried in the now defunct cemetery in Mödling (“Medling”) in Lower Austria next to the parish church of St. Othmar; In the same grave ("Steiner v. Felsburg'sche and Konopasek'sche" gravesite) is also Johann Nepomuk Konopasek, who died on October 20, 1831 at the age of 57 in Mödling, was professor (and 1798–1805 prefect) of the kk Theresian knights Academy in Vienna, buried.
Johann Steiner v. Felsburg was also active as a lay musician (artistically trained dilettante) and was personally acquainted with Ludwig van Beethoven , to whom he wrote a memorandum of his own in February 1824. Beethoven, however, seems to have been less taken with this acquaintance: when Johann Steiner v. One day Felsburg was supposed to (or wanted to) play the solo part in Beethoven's first piano concerto in C major op. 15, Beethoven declared that this was unsuitable and trusted Moriz Graf v. Dietrichstein wrote in January 1808: " Be careful, he [Felsburg] falls before he comes to Cadenz - (...) - I told H. Felsenburg myself that I wouldn't advise him to play tomorrow - Es there is a real mess. NB. as soon as he can do the concerto better, he can play it "(BGA 317. Beethoven to Count Moriz Dietrichstein [Vienna, January 30, 1808]). The cadenza that was discussed between Beethoven and Count Dietrichstein at the time has only survived as a fragment today; it breaks off after the first 60 bars. However, there is much to suggest that Beethoven wrote it down in full, but that the second half was lost.
literature
- Andrea Volgger: On the work of the history painter Albrecht Steiner von Felsburg (1838–1905): the painting equipment in the parish church of Proveis and at the Vincentinum in Brixen, taking into account their preliminary studies. Inst. F. Art history at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, 2005. (2008, ISBN 978-3-639-06912-9 )
- Leo Andergassen: Albrecht Steiner v. Rock castle. In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2003, p. 119 f.
- Maria Rumer: History painter Albrecht Steiner von Felsburg. In: New Tyrolean Voices. 1905, No. 278, p. 1 ff.
- Albrecht von Felsburg. A memorial sheet. In: VH v. Wörndle (Ed.): The art lover. Bolzano 1906.
- Albrecht Steiner v. Felsburg, project for a circle of images in the new church of the boys' seminar in Brixen, based on the “high priesthood of Christ” as the guiding thought. Manuscript. Innsbruck 1877.
- Imperial-royal schematic of the Archduchy of Austria ob der Enns to the year 1825. Linz 1825, p. 37.
- k. bohemian society d. Sciences with Sr. kk Majesty most gracious privilegio privativo (ed.): Schematism for the Kingdom of Bohemia to the year 1831. Prague 1831, p. 6.
- Anton Schindler, Ignaz Moscheles: The Life of Beethoven: Including His Correspondence with His Friends, Numerous Characteristic Traits, and Remarks on His Musical Works. H. Colburn, London 1841, p. 11.
- Anton Schindler: Biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. 3. Edition. Münster 1860, p. 63.
- Letters to Beethoven and Other Correspondence: 1824–1828. Translated by Theodore Albrecht. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8032-1040-X , p. 10.
- L. Andergassen: Steiner (Stainer) from Felsburg Albrecht. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 180.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Registration Albrecht von Felsburg
- ^ Association for Christian Art in Munich (ed.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th year. Anniversary . Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, p. 77 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Felsburg, Albrecht Steiner from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Felsburg, Albrecht von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1905 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |