Andreas Kompatscher
Andreas Kompatscher , also Andrä Kompatscher (born November 30, 1864 in Bozen ; † August 30, 1939 there ), was a Tyrolean sculptor .
Life
Andreas Kompatscher studied first at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts , then at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . In 1887 he worked in Rome, then worked in Vienna on the construction of the Burgtheater and settled in Bozen in 1890, where from 1909 he worked as a professor and head of the stone carving department at the State Trade School. He was married to the sculptor Johanna Stainer (1901–1956) from Margreid .
Works
In addition to numerous grave monuments , he created the following works in Bolzano:
- 1893 Marian column with pedestal statues (erected in 1909 in front of today's Goethe School)
- 1895 St. George's Group
- 1896 Sacred Heart Relief, Palais Toggenburg
- 1899 bust of Heinrich Noë in the station park
- 1903 Queen Elisabeth of Romania
- 1904 Memorial for Anton Schiestl on Walther-von-der-Vogelweide-Platz , destroyed by an American bombing in 1943, faithfully reproduced in 2015
- 1906 Christ relief above the main portal of the Protestant church
- 1907 Laurin-Brunnen together with Arthur Winder; stands today at Silvius-Magnago-Platz
- 1909 Niche statue of Oswald von Wolkenstein at the southeast corner of the Bolzano City Museum ( removed and destroyed in 1936 as part of the fascist Italianization policy )
literature
- Paulin: Compatriot Andreas. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 103 f. (Direct links on p. 103 , p. 104 ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Eduard Widmoser (Ed.): Südtirol A – Z , Volume 2, Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1983, p. 446
- ↑ Eduard Widmoser (Ed.): Südtirol A – Z , Volume 2, Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1983, p. 447
- ↑ Der Schlern , 1946, p. 150
- ↑ Jürgen Krüger: The Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church in Bozen - a church on the way to modernity , arte factum Verlag, Karlsruhe 2010, p. 12
- ^ Walter Freiberg: South Tyrol and Italian Nationalism , Part 1, Wagner University Press, Innsbruck 2004, p. 244
Web links
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kompatscher, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kompatscher, Andrä |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sculptor (South Tyrol) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bolzano |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1939 |
| Place of death | Bolzano |