Alois Dorn

Alois Dorn (born May 20, 1908 in Mühlheim am Inn , † August 24, 1985 in Linz , Upper Austria ) was an Austrian visual artist . He was married to the writer Gertrud Fussenegger .

Life and work

The academic sculptor Alois Dorn, "sculptor, painter, glass painter, mosaic artist", brother of the painter Johanna Dorn-Fladerer (1913–1988) and of Conrad Dorn (1915–1987), who worked as a sculptor , was one of ten children of the small business owner Johann Dorn and his wife Maria, b. Karl and grew up under poor conditions in Suben am Inn. After elementary school in Suben and the public school in Schärding he received his first training, which was leading him to his later career, at the University School of Woodworking in Hallstatt , as reflected in the dedicated to him short story " A small black wooden hand " by Gertrud Fussenegger reflects . Working on wood was also his special preference in his later artistic activity. From 1927 to 1933 (graduation as "Academic Sculptor") Dorn studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the master class of Joseph Wackerle . Like him, Dorn also saw himself primarily as an architectural sculptor and less as a creator of free sculpture purely for the purpose of exhibition in a museum.

Until 1939, Dorn worked in Munich as a sought-after freelance sculptor on numerous commissioned works. After his discharge from military service, he set up a studio in his parents' house, worked in Salzburg from 1949 to 1951 and lived from 1952 to 1960 in Solbad Hall in Tyrol with Gertrud Fussenegger , whom he divorced from his Munich sculptor colleague Elmar in 1950 Dietz married and had a son, Lukas, with one of them. From 1961 he lived with the family in Leonding in Upper Austria.

Alois Dorn, who was awarded the professional title of " Professor ", was a member of the MAERZ artists ' association in Linz and the Innviertel artists' guild . His grave was in the cemetery of Gallneukirchen , for which he had created a way of the cross from mosaic pictures on the cemetery wall as one of his last major works in order to “'tie the remembrance of the dead to the story of the passion of the Lord' '. The 'Via Sacra', the holy way, begins with the condemnation of Jesus to death, but ends with the message: 'The one you are looking for has risen!' ”Alois Dorn was taken to the cemetery in Leonding after the death of Gertrud Fussenegger reburied.

In October 2008, the city of Leonding organized a commemorative exhibition in the "Galerie 44er Haus" for Alois Dorn's 100th birthday.

Works (selection)

Fountain in front of the Linz Chamber of Labor (1949/1950)

European Monument in front of the European School Linz (1961)

• Europe on the bull for the square in front of Munich University
• Fountain in front of the Linz Chamber of Labor (1949; PDF file; 686 kB)
• Memorial to the victims of both world wars in Wernstein am Inn (1953)
• Garrison pioneer memorial in Melk (1959)
• European monument in front of the European School Linz Lederergasse 35, Rathausviertel, Linz
• Gallustor and mosaic picture for the parish church Gallneukirchen
• Way of the Cross made of mosaic pictures on the cemetery wall in Gallneukirchen (on this a book together with Gertrud Fussenegger) (PDF file; 80 kB)
• Schoolhouse portal in Munich * Column capitals and 12 bronze chandeliers for the Munich town hall ballroom
• Memorial column in the Munich municipal art gallery
• Carved altar with a life-size crucifixion group in the parish church of Bad Aibling,
• St. Anna in the Church of St. Andrä in Salzburg
• numerous portraits and grave monuments in wood, stone, bronze, terracotta in Munich, Regensburg, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Upper Austria
• Plastic groups and figures for the Nymphenburg porcelain manufactory
• Reliefs in the administration building of VOEST Linz
• Oil painting, e.g. B. "Harbor", "Fish", "Large bouquet"

literature

• Gertrud Fussenegger, Alois Dorn: We announce your cross . Veritas-Verlag , Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85329-468-5 .
• Rainer Zimmermann: Alois Dorn. A life for figure and space . Herder , Vienna / Freiburg / Basel 1984, ISBN 3-210-24768-4 .
• Karl Pömer: Alois Dorn (1908–1985). A life for figure, space and measure. In: Upper Austrian pictures of life. Volume 6, Linz 1988, pp. 133-146.
• Alois Dorn as a draftsman. published by Upper Austrian cultural center, Linz 1979.
• Franz Engl : The Schärdinger Artists' Circle. In: Yearbook of the Innviertel Artists Guild. 1966/67, Ried 1966, pp. 5-28.
• Sculpture in Upper Austria 1880–1990 - monument observation. ed. vd Landesgalerie Upper Austria. (= Catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museum. New series no. 104). Linz 1996, ISBN 3-900746-99-0 and Library of the Province , Weitra 1996, ISBN 3-85252-130-0 .

Web links

Commons : Alois Dorn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Artfact Auctions: Alois Dorn
2. ^ Conrad Dorn, in: Regiowiki.at website
3. ↑ see homepage Johanna Dorn
4. ↑ Gertrud Fussenegger: One game for another. ( Memento from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: The literary wren. 2008, issue 1, Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart 1996.
5. ^ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Invitation to the memorial exhibition Prof. Alois Dorn 1908–2008 in Leonding
6. ↑ Herbert Lange : The fountain in front of the Linz Chamber of Labor . In: Yearbook of the City of Linz 1949 . Linz 1950, p. 55 .
7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Stadtgalerie Ried im Innkreis
8. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: We announce your cross . Media center diocese of Würzburg: Stations of the Cross - Lent - Easter. P. 2.
9. ↑ Memorial exhibition Prof. Alois Dorn  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Europadenkmal, art in architecture, Linz, in: Web presence of the city of Linz
11. ↑ We proclaim your cross . Veritas-Verlag, Vienna 1985
12. ↑ Franz Engl. In: Regiowiki.at website