Alois Schenk

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Signature of Alois Schenk in the Baienfurt parish church
Altar wall in the Baienfurt parish church

Alois Georg Schenk (born February 4, 1888 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † September 24, 1949 there ) was a German church painter.

Life

Alois Schenk studied at the Academy of Arts in Stuttgart, where he was a student of Robert Poetzelberger , Christian Landenberger and Adolf Hölzel .

In the 1920s he furnished several new Catholic churches, especially in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, with murals and stations of the cross, including expressionist churches by the architect Otto Linder .

Works (selection)

  • Painting of the choir of the parish church of St. Cyriakus , Straßdorf , 1914–1915
  • Stations of the Cross frieze in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul, Röhlingen , 1919–1922
  • Painting of the parish church of St. Mary of the Assumption, Baienfurt , 1926/1927
  • Frescoes in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary (new Marienkirche), Süßen , 1928/1929
  • Frescoes in the parish church of Zöschingen , 1928
  • Ceiling frescoes and altar leaves in the pilgrimage church of St. Maria , Rechberg , 1928 (meanwhile repainted in the course of a renovation)
  • Altarpiece in the parish church of the Holy Cross, Bludenz , approx. 1932–1934
  • Evangelist frescoes and the Way of the Cross in the Name of Mary and St. Sebastian , Degenfeld
  • Altarpiece (?) For the Sießen monastery near Saulgau
  • Altarpiece (?) For the parish church of the Assumption of Mary, Neresheim
  • Altarpiece (?) For the Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Pforzheim
  • Altarpiece (?) For the parish church of St. Martin, Landshausen
  • Altarpiece (?) For the parish church in Rheineck, Switzerland
  • Altarpiece for the Sankt-Patrizius-Kirche in Eggenrot , 1937, not visible
  • Röhlingen , Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul, Stations of the Cross (1919–1922)

literature

  • Josef Anselm Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden : The Christ image with Alois Schenk. In: Sacred Art. Member gift of the Art Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. 1978, pp. 115-130
  • Josef Anselm Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden: Alois Schenk (1888–1949). The rediscovery of color. In: Sacred Art. Member gift of the Art Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. 29th year 1997 (1998), ISBN 3-7966-0900-7 , pp. 47–51 (essayistic article with many quotations, nothing about biography)
  • Hermann Hauber: Karl Stirner and Alois Schenk. In the Holy Land. An artist's journey in 1930/1931. Betulius, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-89511-091-4
  • Susanne Maywurm: The expressionist phase in the work of the Swabian church builder Otto Linder (1891-1976). Shown on his buildings from the 1920s in Baden-Württemberg. Master's thesis, University of Heidelberg 1988
  • Siegwart Rupp: The Röhlinger Kreuzweg Frieze by the fresco painter Alois Schenk. In: Swabian homeland. 22nd year 1971, issue 4, p. 235
  • Schenk, Alois Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 26 .
  • Schenk, Alois . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 181 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung of May 28, 2010: Expressionism slumbers in the church (article about the hidden altarpiece in the Eggenrot church).
  2. ^ Siegwart Rupp: The Röhlinger Kreuzwegfrieze by the fresco painter Alois Schenk. In: Schwäbische Heimat 22, 1971, pp. 235–241.
personal data
SURNAME Schenk, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenk, Alois Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1949
Place of death Schwäbisch Gmünd