Anton Schimser

Anton Schimser (born February 19, 1790 in Vienna , † August 5, 1838 in Lemberg ) was an Austrian sculptor who worked in Lemberg and founded the Schimser family of sculptors.

life and work

Anton Schimser came to Lemberg in 1812, his brother Johann Baptist (1793-1856) followed him in 1826. After Johann's death, the family business was inherited by Johann's son Leopold (1833-1888), after Leopold's death his widow Viktoria Schimser (1838-1908) took over. the management of the company.

Anton Schimser studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. After graduating, he worked in Rome and Bratislava . The influence of Antonio Canova's style is noticeable in his works .

In 1812 he settled in Lviv, where he founded a sculpture workshop. From 1826 he worked with his brother Johann, from 1820 with the sculptor Hartmann Witwer (1774–1825).

Schimser mainly dealt with the grave sculpture, especially at the Lviv Lychakiv Cemetery , also outside Lviv, as well as with the sculptural decoration of the Lviv residential houses and public buildings.

In 1833 he applied unsuccessfully for the position of lecturer for sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow .

Tombs in the Lychakiv Cemetery

Tomb of Apolonia Hoffman, around 1825/26

• The tomb of the Breuer, Tränkl and Weigl families consists of three natural-size figures next to an urn standing on a base.
• Tomb of Julianna Nevather geb. Schabinger shows the goddess of the night, who removes a star crown from a young woman, and the genius of death with a palm frond.
• The tomb of Maria Chaudoir shows the Greek god of sleep Hypnos with a dying torch in his hand
• Tomb of Amelia Gołębska shows the figures of her husband and her daughter next to an urn containing her ashes.
• Tomb of Stanisław Zarwański shows the death Genius with a dying torch.
• Tomb of Sophia Siegel geb. Schartel shows a woman with folded hands.
• Anton Edmund Kriegshaber's tomb shows a kneeling female figure with arms raised.
• Tomb of Joanna Bagghofwund geb. Ruszkowski in the form of a sarcophagus, the three sides of which are filled with reliefs depicting allegories of piety and love and angels with wreaths of flowers. The fourth page contains the text of the epitaph.
• The tomb of Jan Hausner the Younger is reminiscent of the tomb of the Stuart family in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, a work by Antonio Canova . It is crowned with a winged ball, a symbol of the sales team.
• The tomb of Jan Hausner the Elder has the shape of the Ark of the Covenant protected by four cherub figures , at the top there is an urn with swan reliefs.
• Tomb of the governor of Galicia and Lodomeria, Franz Seraph Freiherr von Hauer, in the form of an Egyptian portal guarded by two lion figures. The tomb was probably the tomb of Pope Clement XIII. modeled on Antonio Canova.
• Georg Hoffmann, the owner of the Lviv Hotel George, rests in the tomb of the Hoffmann and Vogel families . The tomb consists of an obelisk with a relief of dancing guardian spirits, an obelisk with a reclining female figure and three praying virgins, a winged genius with an urn and a mourner sitting next to it.
• Tomb of Rosalie Mieleniewska b. Gross-Rypiński shows a male figure with a coat of arms next to a column topped with an urn. The relief on the base depicts six girls and an infant, probably the orphans .

Decoration of Lviv architecture

• Reliefs on the facade of the credit institution (1821-1822)
• Façade and interior of the Baworowski library
• Decoration of the Chołoniewski Palace (1818-1820, demolished in 1880)
• Decoration of tenement at Krakowska Street 11 (1826-1828)
• Monument to Governor Franz von Hauer in the Dominican Church (1823-1824)
• Reliefs on the facade of the Mititary Baths (1820, kept in the Historical Museum)
• Sphinx reliefs in the gable of the building at Zielona-Str. 102 (1829)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grabmal ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Wikisource

literature

• Stanisław Nicieja, Cmentarz Łyczakowski we Lwowie w latach 1786-1986, Wrocław 1989 ISBN 83-0403-320-8
• Stanisław Nicieja, Ogród snu i pamięci. Dzieje Cmentarza Łyczakowskiego we Lwowie i ludzi tam spoczywających w latach 1786-2010 , Opole 2010, ISBN 978-83-61915-13-3
• Jurij Biriulow, Rzeźba lwowska od połowy XVIII wieku do 1939 roku: Od zapowiedzi klasycyzmu do awangardy , Warszawa: “Neriton” 2007, pp.37-46. ISBN 978-83-7543-009-7

Web links

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

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