Bernard Rice
Bernard Rice (born February 11, 1874 in Birmingham , † after 1917 ) was a British glass painter who worked mainly in Austria.
Life
Bernard Rice was trained as a glass painter and draftsman at the Munich School of Applied Arts . From 1897 he worked as a draftsman at the Tyrolean glass painting and mosaic institute in Innsbruck and soon became its artistic director. He was a connoisseur of English stained glass in Art Nouveau and in the style of the Pre-Raphaelites and brought their artistic influence as well as some technical innovations. In 1903 he went on a study trip to Italy with the director Robert Mader to study the mosaics of Ravenna and Venice . In 1904 he went to England to study the works of Edward Coley Burne-Jones and Walter Crane . Rice created the designs for numerous glass paintings and mosaics, including for the parish church of Hötting and the Protestant Christ Church in Innsbruck. Around 260 of his designs have been preserved in the archive of the glass painting establishment.
When he was denied Austrian citizenship in 1917, he returned to England. His successor as artistic director of the glass painting establishment was Gottlieb Schuller after the end of the war .
Works
- Mosaic designs for the Elisabeth chapel of the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Jubiläumskirche , Vienna, 1898 (not executed)
- Mosaic on the facade of the Canisianum , Innsbruck, 1908
- Glass window, Pradl parish church , 1909–1911 (not preserved)
- two cycles of glass windows, Christ Church , Innsbruck, 1913
- Stained glass window, Hötting parish church
literature
- Rice, Bernard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 265 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Reinhard Rampold: 140 years of the Tyrolean glass painting and mosaic establishment 1861 - 2001 ( PDF; 747 kB )
- ↑ a b c Liselotte Schwab: Homage to a murdered empress: the Elisabeth chapel in the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Jubiläumskirche in Vienna II., Mexikoplatz. Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg 2010, pp. 144–145 ( digitized in the Google book search)
- ↑ a b Helmuth Öhler: Paintings with glass and light in the Pradl parish church. In: Contacts. Parish sheet of the Pradl parish. December 2011, pp. 5–11 ( PDF; 8.5 MB )
- ↑ Kulturraum Tirol: Stained glass window of the Evangelical Christ Church in Innsbruck (1913)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rice, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British glass painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1917 |