Andreas Einberger

Bust of Andreas Einberger by Franz Josef Kranewitter in Telfs

Andreas Einberger (born October 30, 1878 in Kramsach , † April 29, 1952 in Telfs ) was an Austrian painter and sculptor .

Life

The farmer's son did an apprenticeship with Josef Bachlechner the Elder in Hall in Tyrol  and initially worked as a wood carver. After years of traveling and activities in Hamburg  and Bremen , he turned to painting and studied from 1900 to 1903 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich  with Gabriel von Hackl and from 1903 to 1906 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the special school of Alois Delug . After studying in Rome , he returned to Kramsach. After returning from military service in the First World War , he married Maria Pöschl from Telfs in 1919, and lived with her in Telfs from 1920 until his death. The only son died as a toddler in 1927.

Einberger built a studio in Telfs and initially worked primarily as a sculptor and graphic artist. He received several commissions, including for war memorials in the Upper Inn Valley. In 1921 he had his first major solo exhibition in Innsbruck. In 1948, the state of Tyrol appointed him to the cultural advisory board of the state government.

His works include portraits, landscapes (especially the high mountains) in watercolor and oil , frescoes , etchings and colored woodcuts . As a sculptor, he created figures, war memorials and nativity scenes.

Honors

• Professional title Professor , 1949
• Honorary citizen of Telfs, 1949
• Naming of Prof.-Andreas-Einberger-Straße in Telfs
• Monument in Telfs (bust created by Franz Josef Kranewitter )

Works in public space

Reliefs on the Delevo community center in Innsbruck

• War memorial, Voldöpp parish church , around 1920
• War memorial for those who fell in World War I, parish church Kirchdorf in Tirol, 1922
• War memorial on the south portal of the cemetery, Pfaffenhofen , 1922/1924
• War memorial, Oberhofen parish church in the Inn Valley , around 1923
• Frescoes on the Kaiserschützenkapelle on Tummelplatz, Innsbruck, 1924 (with Alfons Walde )
• Oriel reliefs, Delevo community center, Innsbruck, 1925
• Façade paintings, Haas commercial and residential buildings, Telfs, around 1936
• Madonna fresco above the portal, former Gasthof Baldauf, Pettnau, 1946/1947
• High altar relief, parish church Fügen

literature

• Einberger, Andreas . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 422 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Einberger, Andreas . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 24 .
• Andreas Einberger - biography , RLB-Kunstbrücke, 2002 (RTF; 12 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ War memorial. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 16, 2017 . 
2. ↑ War memorial for those who fell in World War I. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 16, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Frick, Wiesauer: War memorial with a sculpture of a wounded soldier. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ War memorial. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 16, 2017 . 
5. ^ Cemetery chapel, Kaiserschützenkapelle. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 16, 2017 . 
6. ^ Felmayer, Wiesauer: Residential and commercial building, Delevo community center. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 16, 2017 . 
7. ^ Menardi, Schmid-Pittl: business and residential buildings, Haas. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 11, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Kronbichler, Wiesauer: Municipal Office, former Baldauf Inn, Municipal House. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 11, 2017 .