Alfons Siber

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alfons Siber (born February 23, 1860 in Schwaz , † February 8, 1919 in Hall in Tirol ) was an Austrian painter and restorer .

Life

Alfons Siber, the oldest of ten children of a district court clerk, did an apprenticeship at the Tyrolean glass painting institute in Innsbruck from 1879 . From 1881 to 1890 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , where he received several awards (Lampi Prize, Füger Prize, Hof Prize, Stremayr Prize) and in 1886 a scholarship from the Tyrolean estates. His teachers included Christian Griepenkerl and Josef Mathias Trenkwald , among others . After a short time in Wilten  , from 1891 he lived in the Siber-Schlössl in Hall in Tirol, where he worked as a painter and restorer.

From 1887 Siber exhibited regularly in Innsbruck. He was close to the “Young Tyroleans” around Arthur von Wallpach  . In 1903 he founded the Tiroler Künstlerbund, which he also headed until 1906, and initiated its first annual exhibition. His students included Rafael Thaler , Toni Kirchmayr, and Peter Sellemond .

Siber created numerous portraits and landscapes. He was particularly interested in large-scale representations in churches and ballrooms, for which, however, he received only a few commissions. His main work is the design of the Hall cemetery chapel, which he painted between 1900 and 1903 with wall paintings of Christ, St. Michael and symbolic representations of death and eternal life. Siber also supplied cardboard boxes for the Tyrolean Glasmalereianstalt for church and secular stained glass windows. While Siber's frescoes and other commissioned works mostly follow a neo-Gothic - Nazarene style in accordance with the expectations of the client, his preference for Art Nouveau , secessionist - decorative motifs is shown in private oil paintings .

In addition to his independent artistic work, he often carried out restorations, including on the Innsbruck hospital church , the Brixen cathedral cloister and the cloister of the Franciscan monastery Schwaz , which he reported in the communications of the kk Central Commission for the research and preservation of architectural monuments , whose correspondent he from the end the 1890s was reported.

To celebrate the 600th anniversary of Hall's elevation, he and Josef Bachlechner the Elder organized a parade based on the model of Hans Makart , for whom he also wrote the prologues. As a result, he organized other city festivals, parades and the like.

Siber was an avid skier and often out and about on the Glungezer  , where he taught Mathias Zdarsky's "Lilienfeld skiing method" to others .

Works (selection)

Painting above the north portal of the San Candido Collegiate Church (1909)
Mosaic at the Innsbruck Chamber of Commerce (1906)
  • Design of stained glass windows for Providence Cathedral , Rhode Island, circa 1885
  • Panels with representations of angels, Mayerling Castle Chapel , 1891
  • Ceiling frescoes, pilgrimage church Maria Weißenstein , 1891 (overpainting of the frescoes by Josef Adam Mölk , removed in 1977)
  • Wall paintings (Christ, St. Michael and symbolic depictions of death and eternal life), Hall cemetery chapel, 1900–1903
  • Ceiling frescoes, chapel of the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Jubiläums-Infirmary in Innsbruck, 1903
  • Draft facade mosaic allegory of trade and commerce , Innsbruck Chamber of Commerce, 1906
  • Painting above the north portal (Saints Candidus and Corbinian), San Candido Collegiate Church , 1909
  • Façade fresco of St. Sebastian and the prelate Sebastian Glatz kneeling in front of him, St. Nikolaus parish church , Merano

literature

Web links

Commons : Alfons Siber  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reinhard Rampold: 140 years of the Tyrolean glass painting and mosaic company 1861 - 2001 ( PDF; 747 kB )
  2. ^ Franz Caramelle, Richard Frischauf: The monasteries and monasteries of Tyrol . Tyrolia-Athesia, Innsbruck-Bozen 1985, ISBN 3-7022-1549-2 , p. 178-179 .
  3. ↑ Frick, Wiesauer: Cemetery Hall. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved February 1, 2016 .
  4. ^ Felmayer, Wiesauer: Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Jubiläums-Siechenhaus, former municipal nursing home. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved October 8, 2015 .
  5. ^ Weirather, Wiesauer: Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved August 10, 2015 .
  6. ^ Allegory of trade and commerce - facade mosaic of the Chamber of Commerce in Innsbruck (1906) , Kulturraum Tirol
personal data
SURNAME Siber, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH black
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1919
Place of death Hall in Tirol