Anton Kaindl (sculptor)

Grave of Anton Kaindl; Munich, forest cemetery, old part

Stucco relief Madonna at the entrance to the St. Michael parish church in Schönberg

Anton Kaindl (born April 5, 1849 in Munich , † July 20, 1922 at Benediktbeuern ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Kaindl was born as the son of Kistler journeyman and piano maker Anton Kaindl sen. and his wife Sophie Silbernagel was born. He grew up in Munich and showed artistic talent at an early age. After graduating from school, he studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich .

At the turn of the 20th century, he created numerous war memorials , especially in the Munich area , which were created in memory of the fallen in the German War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and earned him the nickname " Soldiers-Kaindl" .

Monument to the blacksmith von Kochel

His most famous works include the war memorials on Rotkreuzplatz in Munich and in Kolbermoor as well as the Schmied-von-Kochel monument in Kochel am See . In cooperation with Hygin Kiene , the large Tilly monument and the Oberland monument in Waakirchen were created on the market square in Rain am Lech in 1914 , with the lion on a lance by Hygin Kiene and the four reliefs on the base with scenes from the Sendling Christmas Murder Christmas by Anton Kaindl .

Together with Hygin Kiene, Kaindl created the extensive figure cycle at the St. Johann town hall in Saarbrücken , which Georg von Hauberisser had designed based on the New Town Hall in Munich.

For the parish church Maria Immaculata in Dietelskirchen he created the 14 stations of the cross, the depiction of the souls of the poor and the figures of the apostles in the presbytery. The parish church of St. Martin and St. Maria Magdalena in Obertaufkirchen was decorated with neo- Rococo stucco.

On July 20, 1922, Kaindl suffered a heart attack while climbing the Benediktenwand , his favorite mountain. He was buried in the Munich forest cemetery.

Works (selection)

Town hall tower St. Johann ; St. Johanner class cycle, here the farmer and brewer of Anton Kaindl

• 1888 - Munich-Neuhausen , Rotkreuzplatz, 1870/71 war memorial for the fallen soldiers of Neuhausen. Dismantled around 1970 and stored in an unknown location
• 1889 - Munich, Thiersch Strasse 25/ 27 /29: plastic decor of Hausteinfassade
• 1896 - Penig : War memorial for those who fell in the war of 1870/71
• 1901 - Aschheim : War memorial for those who fell in the wars of 1866 and 1870/71
• 1904 - Grünwald : War memorial for those who fell in the war of 1870/71
• 1905 - Waakirchen : Oberland monument to commemorate those who fell at the Sendlinger Murder Christmas and the wars of 1866 and 1870/71
• 1914 - Rain: Tilly monument on the town hall square
• 1916 - Schönberg : Stucco relief and Madonna on the west side of the facade of the parish church of St. Michael

literature

• Dehio , Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria, Darmstadt 1990

Web links

Commons : Anton Kaindl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Adalbert Riehl: Bayerdilling and Wächtering, history of two villages on the lower Lechrain. Chapter 14: “Extraordinary Families”, The “Soldiers Kaindl” . Retrieved August 30, 2010