Balthasar Waltl
Balthasar Waltl (born March 3, 1858 in Kirchdorf in Tirol ; † June 9, 1908 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian portrait , history and church painter .
Balthasar Waltl attended the applied arts school in Innsbruck with Michael Stolz and Caspar Jele and continued his studies from April 9, 1877 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Alois Gabl and Otto Seitz .
In 1890 he married Anna Mayr and bought the "Rennfeld" estate in Kitzbühel . In 1894 he built the "Villa Waltl" in Bahnhofstrasse.
Waltl mainly dealt with church, portrait and landscape painting as well as with the restoration of works by old masters, such as B. the frescoes by Simon Benedikt Faistenberger in the parish church in Ellmau . He also painted a number of altarpieces. In the parish church of Hopfgarten im Brixental , Waltl created pictures with depictions of saints above the high altar from 1891 to 1893 as part of the church renovation.
Waltl showed his works a. a. at the Tyrolean State Exhibition in 1893 and at the World Exhibition in St. Louis .
Balthasar Waltl lived in Innsbruck from 1902 and was buried in Innsbruck's Westfriedhof .
In his birthplace Kirchdorf in Tirol, the Balthasar-Waltl-Weg was named after him.
literature
- Waltl, Balthasar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 134 .
Web links
- In memory of Balthasar Waltl. Kitzbüheler Anzeiger from September 11, 2008
- 03398 Balthasar Waltl , register book 1841–1884 of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Weidl: Hopfgarten im Brixental. Parish church hll. Jakobus and Leonhard. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2011, p. 11 ( online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waltl, Balthasar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian portrait, history and church painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirchdorf in Tirol |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1908 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |