Bernward Schmid
Bernward Schmid OSB (born June 14, 1920 in Riefensberg ; † August 21, 2010 in Seckau ) was an Austrian Benedictine monk , blacksmith and lay brother .
Life
Bernward Schmid attended the Oblate Brothers School in Seckau Abbey from the age of 15 , where his wish to become a monk arose. On July 18, 1939, due to the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany, he took his religious vows at a difficult time. After the abolition of the monastery by the National Socialists, he moved to the Maria Laach Abbey . It was there that brother Notker Becker (1883–1978), a later representative of the Beuron art school , discovered his craftsmanship and gave him his first artistic training. After the war he returned to Seckau Abbey and attended the HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule , where he passed the master's examination to become a silver and goldsmith in 1951. He then headed the gold and silversmith's workshop in Seckau Abbey for more than 40 years, where a total of 29 apprentices learned their craft under his guidance.
From 1953 to 1989 Bernward Schmid taught art education at the Abbey High School .
Awards
Works
Bernward Schmid was particularly noted for his enamel work and created more than 1000 devices for liturgical use and jewelry of all kinds with the employees of the workshop .
- 1972 Enamel pictures for the wayside shrines from St. Ruprecht an der Raab to the Breitegg Calvary Church
- around 1992 Lecture cross Figural crucified Jesus on a cross made of shaped metal tubes with a colored circular ring made of enamel for the branch church in Aigen in Ennstal
Picture gallery
Mary with Jesus teaching, enamel work in the arch of a door of the pilgrimage church Maria Schnee on the Hochalm
Ave spes mea Jesus et virgo Maria , enamel work in the arch of a door of the pilgrimage church Maria Schnee on the Hochalm
The baptismal font is covered with enamel in the Seckau basilica
Lecture cross in the sacristy of the Seckau basilica with enamel work (Mother of God and John under the cross).
Way of the Cross Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab - Breitegg - 11th station: Jesus is nailed to the cross , around 1972
Figural crucified Jesus , lecture cross in the Aigen branch church in Ennstal , around 1992
Censer for the liturgy.
One of the many goblets that Br. Bernward made; hammered silver, gold-plated inside.
literature
- Brother Bernward Schmid OSB. Monk - artist - teacher. Festschrift on behalf of Michael W. Wieser. Edited by Rosemarie Eichwalder. With a foreword by Egon Kapellari , REV, Wolfsberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-200-02096-2 .
Web links
- Abbey high school Seckau: Part of Prof. Br. Bernward (Peter Paul) Schmid OSB
Individual evidence
- ↑ G. Steinwender: Breitegg branch church on unterfladnitz.eu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmid, Bernward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian blacksmith and lay brother |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riefensberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 2010 |
| Place of death | Seckau |