Alexander Silveri

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Alexander Silveri (born January 9, 1910 in Graz ; † July 21, 1986 there ) was an Austrian sculptor.

Life

The cast steel crucifix in the Franziskanerkirche Graz (center) is also a bronze cast in the Friedenskirche in Trappenkamp

Silveri attended the Graz School of Applied Arts from 1925 to 1928 in the class led by the sculptor Wilhelm Gösser , where he perfected his carving technique. With his fellow students Rudolf Szyszkowitz and Albin Stranig, he joined the Neuland Federation and followed them to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1928 , where the group expanded to include students Werner Berg , Leopold Birstinger , Max Weiler and Karl Weiser. The group, in which Silveri was the only sculptor, dealt with social problems and religious art, citing Ernst Barlach , Albin Egger-Lienz and Käthe Kollwitz , among others . In 1936 Silveri returned to Graz as an academic sculptor, opened his own studio in Gabelsbergerstraße and joined the Styrian art association Werkbund. He turned to the portrait in 1937 and created more than 100 portraits by the 1970s. In 1945 he followed Wilhelm Gösser as head of the master class for stone and wood carving at the Graz School of Applied Arts. In 1946 he joined the newly founded Bund Neuland. In 1939 he married Hiltraud Fabiani, with whom he has four children.

For the parish church of Wenigzell, which was badly damaged by the war and where the entire baroque interior was burned, he designed a new altar design between 1946 and 1948, based on the village linden tree that was burned in the war, but which began to green again. Silveri placed the crucified Christ as a burned tree as a single representation in the center of the altar. The execution of this design in Wenigzell failed due to funding. However, in the years that followed, Silveri repeatedly dealt with this symbolism until the last version of the burned tree was installed as a bronze cast in St. Martin in 1965 . In 2009 a second cast was made, which was installed in the local churchyard on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the Wenigzell community.

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His main focus was on sacred art and the design of church interiors.

Recognitions

A street was named after him in the Styrian town of Parschlug .

Works

hanging cross in the parish church of Liesing

literature

  • Silveri. Monograph, work book for his 60th birthday, foreword by architect Jules Predl from Zug, introduction by Irmengard Fausch-Horvath, review by Heinz Gerstinger on the exhibition in Lucerne, on the memorial in Graz by Erich Gschwend, thoughts on Silveri by Willy Gutmann, notes by the artist , Biography, directory of illustrations and sketches, exhibitions, books, magazines, newspapers; Client Jules Predl, Verlag Offizin Zürcher AG, Zug 1970.
  • Johannes Silveri: Alexander Silveri. File. Drawings by the artist, forewords by Hanns Koren and Heinz Gerstinger, self-published by Hiltraud Silveri, print: Styria, Graz 1983.
  • Martin Schmiedbauer, Johannes Silveri, Friedemann Silveri: Alexander Silveri. 1910-1986. [Catalog for the Alexander Silveri memorial exhibition 1910–1986 in the Volksbildungswerk St. Martin], Graz 1997.
  • Ingeborg Radimsky (Ed.): Alexander Silveri. 1910-1986. The sculptural work. Verlag Ingeborg Radimsky, Bad Gleichenberg 2011, 207 pages, review in Encounters 2013/2 (PDF)

Web links

Commons : Alexander Silveri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Schweigert: Marginalia ... in Ingeborg Radimsky: Alexander Silveri. 1910-1986. The sculptural work. , see literature
  2. ↑ Ingeborg Radimsky: Alexander Silveri. 1910-1986. The sculptural work. , see literature, p. 154
  3. ↑ Alexander Silveri: A life in bronze and stone in the Kleine Zeitung of January 7, 2010, accessed on January 23, 2013
  4. ↑ 30th anniversary of the death of the sculptor Alexander Silveri on November 27, 2016, accessed on September 7, 2018
  5. ^ Werner Gobiet: Chapel in the seminary
  6. ↑ Festschrift 50 Years of the Peace Church
personal data
SURNAME Silveri, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1986
Place of death Graz