August Bishop
August Josef Bischof (born November 24, 1889 in Steinschönau (Bohemia), † November 24, 1979 ) was a glass engraver who worked in Steinschönau. He is one of the best engravers of his time and is the father of the glass designer and sculptor Walter Bischof and the glass engraver Kurt Bischof .
Life
August Bischof was born in the North Bohemian glass processing center Steinschönau as the eldest of six children of the glass painter August Bischof and his wife Emilie Löhnert, who also came from a glass processing family. The glass finishing trade had a tradition in the family for generations. Nevertheless, he grew up in poor circumstances and attended elementary school from 1896. From 1903 to 1907 he trained at the applied arts college (department for glass engraving). The certificate of leaving after successful completion of this training entitles to carry out the glass engraving trade and to train apprentices. August Bischof gained his first impressions of industrial production while working in Schreiberhau for almost a year . From the company Carl Lorenz Jun., He received increasingly demanding orders, which he carried out at home with an engraving tool with foot drive. When there are few orders, he works as a waiter in various restaurants and hotels.
In January 1915, Bishop was drafted into the infantry of the Austro-Hungarian military and was at the front until 1918. Suspected of typhus, he was taken to the Josefstadt military hospital and later to Kukus in the Giant Mountains. There he met his future wife. After that he was "assigned" to his hometown to work at J. & L. Lobmeyr , probably on his own initiative .
On October 1, 1918, Juliana Pauline Jank was married and their son Walter Bischof was born.
From 1920 to 1922 August Bischof first engraved old samples and then until 1925 also pieces according to new designs for the World Exhibition in Paris. This was the first time the so-called "wave surge" was created. The works were exhibited in the Czechoslovak and Austrian pavilions and for the most part ended up in major museums around the world. August Bischof received a diploma and after this recognition at the world exhibition he received important orders. In 1930 the great world economic crisis made itself felt and led to the termination by Mr. Rath, the owner of the Lobmeyr company.
In 1929 the second son Kurt Bischof was born and an old wooden house was bought for the family in Steinschönau. In the workshop set up there, he made the engravings on glasses, plates and vases, which he acquired in the glass factories in the area. He also received well-paid assignments from Professor Drahonowsky, the head of the School of Applied Arts in Prague. A diploma shows that his work is recognized.
The company J .. & L. LOBMEYR'S NEFFE STEFAN RATH STEINSCHÖNAU also repeatedly issued commissioned work, either as home work or with short-term employment. From 1910 to 1951 he worked there as an employee. During the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the German Wehrmacht, he is said to have carried out a domestic job as a gift from Czech communists to Stalin.
After the end of the Second World War, respected workers in the glass industry and workers in the glass processing trade of German descent were not expelled from the former Sudetenland. They continued to work in the ČSR. So did August Bischof. Only after the death of his eldest son Walter Bischof in Magdeburg did he follow the younger son Kurt Bischof to Rheinbach in Germany in 1969 . Until his death on November 24, 1979, some nice commissioned works were created in his sons' workshops. a. for Johannes Hegenbarth and Prof. Dr. Romans. Many of his works can be found in private collections and, for example, in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin-Köpenick and Grassimuseum Leipzig.
In the Czechoslovak art film Démanty noci (German: Diamonds of the Night) by Jan Němec from 1964, he can be seen as an extra. Although he plays one of the hunters, he only appears in the sociable scenes. Parts of the film were shot in August Bischof's "parlor", which is now privately owned. His daughter-in-law Ilse Bischof (wife of the youngest son Kurt Bischof) can also be seen as an actress in the film.
The estate of August Bischof and his sons is privately owned by his descendants.
literature
- Carmen Sommer : The history of the Haidaer-Steinschönau glass processing industry and its structural change after the relocation in the Rheinbach area: from a publishing company to a glass artisan company . Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1997, p. 123.
- Verena Wasmuth : Czech glass: Artistic design in socialism . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne u. a. 2016. (There under the wrong name spelling Bischoff.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Spiegl: "DB 1826" - A double masterpiece. The barrel cup with a portrait of a man and Madonna della Sedia by Dominik Biemann from the former Gustav Schmidt collection, Reichenberg, and its identical counterpart . (PDF, version 2005). P. 7.
- ↑ Peter Rath, J. and L. Lobmeyr: Lobmeyr 1823: bright glass and clear light . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1994. p. 326.
- ↑ August Bischof in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Ilse Bischof in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bishop, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bishop, August Josef (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German glass artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamenický Šenov , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1979 |