Anton Kob

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Anton Kob

Anton Kob (born September 7, 1822 in Partschins , † December 29, 1895 in Bozen ) was an Austrian sculptor and barrel painter from Tyrol .

Life

Anton Kob worked as a journeyman in his father's mill from the age of 17. The following year he learned gold plating from master Hanny from Kaltern . From 1845 he got his first orders as a barrel painter in St. Walburg , Partschins and Meran . After the death of his parents, he leased the mill and went on trips to Munich ; in Augsburg he later worked as a gilder assistant. From 1852 Kob learned sculpture from Johann Baptist Pendl and later became his son-in-law. In May 1859 he sold the local mill and moved with his wife Anna to Gries , four years later to Bozen .

The catalog raisonné of Anton Kobs comprises around 300 works, some of his wood carvings were life-size. The majority was created for the local area, but the figures have also been sold to England, Russia, North America, Brazil and Australia.

Among other things, Kob was a founding member and long-time librarian of the Bolzano Museum Association and drawing teacher at the journeyman's association there.

Works (selection)

  • Bozen , Heinrichkirche, figures on the facade
  • Bolzano , St. Peter on Karnol , statues
  • Laives , parish church St. Anton and Nikolaus, high altar, side figures St. Nikolaus and Anton Abt
  • Partschins , St. Helena on the Töll, statue of St. Valentin
  • Renon , Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary in Lengmoos, Altarantependium, Last Supper
  • Renon , St. Vigilius in the village, statues on the high altar
  • Truden , St. Blasius, high altar
  • Villanders , parish church of St. Stephen , on the high altar relief figures Stephen and Laurentius
  • Völlan , chapel at Weinreichhof, statues Herz Jesu and Herz Maria

literature

Web links

Commons : Anton Kob  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peters, p. 10
  2. ↑ Peters, p. 16f
  3. ↑ Peters, p. 16
  4. ^ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol . Vol. II, 7th edition 1991, p. 54
  5. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 54
  6. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 421
  7. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 711
  8. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 138
  9. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 156
  10. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 403
  11. ^ Josef Weingartner: The art monuments of South Tyrol . Vol. I, 8th edition 1998, p. 366
  12. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 479
personal data
SURNAME Kob, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor and barrel painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Partschins
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1895
Place of death Bolzano