Anton Stummer

Anton Stummer (born February 28, 1930 in Stein an der Donau ) is an Austrian artist and local researcher .

Anton Stummer worked from 1950 until his retirement in 1989 in the service of the municipality of Krems an der Donau and from 1956 after training as a restorer at the Federal Monuments Office in Vienna, specifically in the Museum of the City of Krems an der Donau. He was responsible for the preservation of the art treasures in the museum, the churches and the sculptures on the houses and in public places of the city.

From his earliest youth he had inclinations in relation to prehistory , mineralogy and geology, as well as paleontology and folklore . His research areas were the Waldviertel and the area of ​​the Dunkelsteinerwald . His role models in the field of field research were Franz Xaver Kießling and Candidus Ponz, Imperial Knight of Engelshofen , whose traces he followed. He was able to understand many a previously forgotten find report and thus make it accessible to science. Stummer put on extensive and high-quality collections, most of which are now kept in the Museum of the City of Eggenburg . He discovered important stations of Ice Age man ( Paleolithic ) as well as important settlements of the late Neolithic . His collection of snails , which he created together with his wife, was bought by the Academy of Sciences in Vienna because of its importance.

Anton Stummer has been a member of the Wachau Artists' Association since 1964 . "I draw trees, cellars, houses and barns, according to my own definition. After numerous exhibitions and participations at home and abroad, many of his pictures are in the possession of museums and collections.

Stummer has also published about his findings and discoveries. His reports and articles can be found in several specialist journals, for example in the magazine of the Federal Monuments Office Fund reports from Austria and in the communications of the Krems city archive .

Publications (selection)

• About new, Paleolithic sites in the Krems district. In: Messages from the Krems City Archives. 9, 1969, p. 139ff.
• Oil paintings - graphics. Modern gallery Dominikanerkloster Krems (July 28th to August 28th 1977), Krems an der Donau 1977.
• with Hermann Maurer : A linear ceramic idol fragment from Poigen , Archäologie Österreichs 11/1, 2000, 49f.
• with Hermann Maurer: New contributions to the “Plateau Clay Paleolithic” of the Waldviertel. In: Our home. 71, 2000, p. 127ff.
• with Hermann Maurer: A linear ceramic animal head handle from the Waldviertel. In: Archeology of Austria. 12, 2001, pp. 20f.
• with Hermann Maurer: A "loaf of bread" from a Bronze Age settlement near Unterwölbling, VB St. Pölten, Lower Austria. In: Our home. 74, 2003, pp. 333f.
• with Hermann Maurer: An anthropomorphically designed vessel part of the linear ceramic band from Breiteneich bei Horn. In: Our home. 75, 2004, p. 354ff.

literature

• Hermann Maurer : Anton Stummer, local researcher and artist, on his 70th birthday. In: The Waldviertel. 49, 2000, p. 196ff.
• Harry Kühnel , Anton-Anton Stummer. Oil paintings - graphics , Modern Gallery Dominikanerkloster Krems, July 28 to August 28, 1977, catalog for the exhibition