Alois Dirnberger

Alois Dirnberger (born December 23, 1823 in Benediktbeuern , † November 20, 1897 in Miesbach ) was a German painter .

Life

Boniface has the Donar oak felled - fresco in the Martinskirche in Westenhofen ( Schliersee)

The son of a glass worker at the Fraunhofer glassworks was placed in 1840 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich because of his talent . Here he was a student of Wilhelm von Kaulbach and Karl Theodor von Piloty . In Munich he also married his wife Josepha Borghi, with whom he had four sons and three daughters. From 1860 he lived in Miesbach, where, in addition to his freelance work as a painter, he also worked as a drawing teacher at the commercial advanced training school (forerunner of today's vocational school).

Dirnberger painted in his new home town the parish church of the Assumption of Mary (1865/66) and the Portiunkula church (1861/62) based on the model of the Munich Ludwig Church . In the following years, further redesigns followed, such as the parish churches of Parsberg and Unterdarching ( Valley ) and the Martinskirche in Westenhofen near Schliersee . Further commissions in the region followed, creating both sacred and profane wall paintings such as in the so-called Waitzingerkeller Miesbach (cultural center since 1997). In addition, Dirnberger worked as a portraitist, genre and landscape painter. His shooting targets, which are still preserved today, are also recognized in specialist circles.

After many of his sacred wall paintings had to give way to the later taste of the time, mainly his paintings and shooting targets testify to his craftsmanship.

Alois Dirnberger is also said to have been a member of the Haberer secret society , as he created significant testimonies from the rural Vime Court, which was very active during his lifetime.

A street in Miesbach was named after him.

literature

• Fischhaber, Martin, Krobisch, Isabella and Schuhbeck, Hans: Great Miesbacher artists of the past. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Waitzinger Keller cultural center. Miesbach 1998.
• Langheiter, Alexander: Miesbach. A cultural guide . Maurusverlag, Miesbach 2006