Carl Rieder

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Carl Rieder (born November 18, 1898 in Schwaz , † September 17, 1980 in Schwaz) was a Tyrolean visual artist . In addition to paintings and drawings, he created church windows, frescoes and sgraffiti .

Life

Carl Rieder was born as the son of foreman Stefan Rieder, who worked in a tobacco factory, and his wife Maria, b. Purner, born. After primary school, Rieder attended the Prince-Bishop's High School Vinzentinum in Brixen from 1911, following his parents' wish for training as a clergyman , but left the school a year later due to insufficient performance in the subjects of Latin and mathematics. Back in Schwaz in 1912 Rieder was allowed to do an apprenticeship with the painter August Johann Wagner (1864–1935), a graduate of the Vienna School of Applied Arts . From 1913 to 1916 he attended the Innsbruck State Trade School, among others with Franz Burger , interrupted during the war by his employment with the State Railways from 1914 to 1915. In 1916 he was ordered to the Dolomites Front as Kaiserschützen , where he suffered an avalanche accident on the Tonale Pass in September 1918 went blind in the right eye. Through tireless work, he was able to compensate for this handicap in drawing. From 1919 to 1920 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Peter Halm , and until 1921 at the State College of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts (since 1924 United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts ) with Emil Orlik and Emil Doepler . For the Tyrolean writer Hans Schrott-Fiechtl , he illustrated his novella Al fresco in 1920 .

In 1921 Rieder returned to Schwaz and married Maria Mair from the town the following year. In 1924 daughter Maria and in 1925 son Maximilian were born. In addition to his freelance artistic activity, Rieder also worked as a drawing teacher at the local vocational training school from 1928 to 1939. In addition, together with his artist colleagues Alois Norer, Josef Prantl and Jakob Rappel , among other things as secretary, he was involved in the Schwaz branch of the Association for Homeland Security in Tyrol, founded in 1929. The establishment of a local history museum in 1931 and efforts to preserve the Schwaz monuments followed the association's purpose of "Rescue, preservation and promotion of traditional things". The museum's holdings came from a private collection, estates from local artists and loans from the local population. His growing popularity and the major order for the designs for 14 windows of the church in the Episcopal High School Paulinum in Schwaz in 1931/32 enabled him to secure his family's livelihood in the future through numerous commissioned works for glass windows and frescoes in the sacred area.

When Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany, he was classified as politically unreliable due to his position in the corporate state as district leader of the Ostmärkische Sturmscharen and in 1939 he was dismissed from school. In August 1939 Rieder was drafted into the German Wehrmacht , where he served with the staff of the State Rifle Battalion 925, but was released in 1941 at the request of the State Curator Oskar Graf Trapp to finish the design of the parish church of Ehrwald. Rieder took part in the 3rd "Gau-Kunstausstellung Tirol-Vorarlberg" in Innsbruck in the summer of 1942 with three of his paintings, like most of the well-known Tyrolean artists whose paintings corresponded in terms of content and form to the art ideas of National Socialism . From 1942 until the end of the war he worked for the customs border guard on the Swiss and Italian borders.

After the war, Rieder was entrusted not only with drafting glass windows for churches but also with the artistic design of secular buildings and by private clients. By the end of the 1970s, he created a large number of facade paintings, designs for church windows and frescoes in church interiors.

Honors

  • In 1974, Rieder's artistic activity was recognized by the award of the Tyrolean Medal of Merit .
  • In 1978 he was given the professional title of professor by the Federal President for special services in the artistic field.
  • The Carl-Rieder-Weg in Schwaz was named in his honor.
  • October 10th to 31st, 1998 Memorial exhibition Carl Rieder, Rabalderhaus Schwaz

plant

Rieder was one of the most versatile Schwaz artists and in the course of his artistic activity created countless designs and cardboard boxes for stained glass windows , mosaics , frescoes, sgraffiti as well as numerous paintings and also worked as a graphic artist with illustrations for books, calendars and magazines. Rieder's designs and boxes were implemented by the Tyrolean glass painting and mosaic institute . He painted stage sets for the theater performances of the Catholic Austrian Student Union (K.Ö.St.V.) Frundsberg.

"The stained glass windows of the church, made from boxes by the Schwaz painter Carl Rieder in 1929/30, are of great artistic importance and pointed the way for the turning away from historicism and the further development of the art of stained glass in Tyrol." "He made a radical break with traditional stained glass and created large picture windows as well as large ornamental windows and color compositions that sought new ways of expressing spiritual content through interspersed symbols, color values, color rhythms or color movements".

In addition to Secessionism , Expressionism and New Objectivity, there are also influences from the Beuron School in his works. "While a strong expressionist trait can initially be found in his stained glass windows, his frescos are in the tradition of New Objectivity from the start."

Glass window (selection)

  • House chapel in the Lienz district hospital , Lienz, 1931: Pietà
  • Church in the Episcopal Gymnasium Paulinum , Schwaz, 1931/1932 and 1949: 14 windows depicting the five secrets of the joyous rosary , three scenes from the life of Mary, Joseph with the baby Jesus, Christ as king with angels
  • House chapel of the sanatorium (today St. Vinzenz) of the Sisters of Mercy , Zams, 1932: middle window: Crucifixion , left side window: Christ and the Sick, Resurrection, Heart of Jesus , right side window: Good Samaritan, raising of the daughter of Jarius, appearance of Mary
  • Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist, Fritzens, 1933: Archangel Michael
  • Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche , Bludenz, 1934/1935: Arched windows in the dome: the four angels, symbols of bliss , circular windows: heads of the twelve apostles , Theresienkapelle: Christ, Mary, Joseph , above the gallery: Pope Gregory the Great, Pope Pius XI, Bishop Sigismund Waitz , in the baptistery: Saint Christopheros , in the confessional chapel: Prodigal Son , in the sacristy: Johannes Baptist Vianney, Don Bosco, Tharcisus
  • Parish Church of the Holy Cross, Going, 1936/1944: Saint Elisabeth, Theresia, Johannes the Baptist, Joseph
  • Parish Church of the Divine Redeemer, Rheindorf-Lustenau, 1936: Death of Saint Joseph and Saint Barbara and handover of keys to Peter and Pope Pius XI with Bishop Sigismund Waitz, Christ with Lazarus, the baptism of Christ, the fall of Lucifer, Saint Vincent de Paul, St. Leopold, Hortensia Borromea, Count Jakob Hannibal von Hohenems
  • Parish Church of St. Ulrich , Lavant, 1942
  • Parish church , Wörgl, 1948, two glass windows
  • Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit and John the Baptist, Schwaz, 1950
  • Parish Church of Saint Martin, Bannberg / Assling, 1956
  • Parish Church, Salzburg-Maxglan, 1957
  • Pilgrimage Chapel Wendelinkapelle , Alberschwende, 1959: left side of the nave Merbod healing the sick , right side of the nave Merbod's murder
  • Cemetery municipal cemetery, Schwaz, 1977

  • Hospital Church, Schwaz, 1950

  • Window in the parish church of St. Ulrich, Lavant

  • Wendelinkapelle Alberschwende, 1959

  • Wendelinkapelle Alberschwende, 1959

Frescoes / sgraffiti (selection)

Sacred works

  • Chapel of the sanatorium (today St. Vincent) of the Sisters of Mercy, Zams, 1934: Wall painting: Joseph with the boy Jesus, St. Vincent de Paul with a beggar
  • Parish Church of St. Virgil, Virgen, 1936: ceiling painting
  • Parish church hll. Viktor and Maria Magdalena, Kematen in Tirol, 1937: gable painting on the west facade
  • Parish Church of Our Lady of the Conception , Innsbruck-Pradl, 1938: Saint Joseph with child and saints
  • Dome in the Seekapelle, Obernberg, 1938: Coronation of Mary and Saints
  • Parish church, Ehrwald, 1939/1941 (no longer preserved): in the presbytery ceiling painting Christmas events , in the nave ceiling painting Maria with Jesus child as protector of the village and its inhabitants , side altar paintings of the Holy Family and the family of Mary (Joachim and Anna)
  • New parish church of Saints Ingenuin and Albuin, Innsbruck-Hötting, 1942: Saint Joseph with the boy Jesus
  • Church in the episcopal high school Paulinum, Schwaz, 1946: Maria with the baby Jesus, Saint Paul
  • Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, Bludenz, 1949: Choir arch wall on the left Immaculata , on the right Saint Joseph
  • Holy Cross Church, Mitterlana, 1950
  • Chapel of Heilige Notburga in Rottenburg, Buch bei Jenbach, 1957, fresco Notburgalegende
  • Kaplaneikirche , Huben near Matrei, 1957: wall painting above the side altars
  • Friedhof, Schwaz, 1957, arcades: Lamentation of Christ

  • Parish Church of St. Virgil, Virgen, 1936

  • Kaplaneikirche Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Huben near Matrei, 1957

Profane works

Reimmichl House, Hall, 1963
  • Fresco with the hll. Sebastian and Georg at the war memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War on the south side of the nave of the parish church, Fendels , 1938
  • The skier with city arms , valley station of the Hahnenkammbahn , Kitzbühel, 1941
  • The farmer's wife with a bouquet of flowers , valley station of the Hahnenkammbahn, Kitzbühel, 1941
  • Reimmichl -Haus, Heiligkreuz / Hall, 1963: mural in memory of Reimmichl (Sebastian Rieger) on the former rectory of Heiligkreuz
  • The Boy with a Rooster , 1966/67, is one of Rieder's wall paintings that still serve as a signpost to the Hahnenkammbahn in Kitzbühel. It has been on Josef-Herold-Straße No. 1 since 1966.

Paintings (selection)

  • Altarpiece, hospital church, Schwaz
  • Sermon on the Bird of St. Francis , Study Room of the Leopoldinum, Hall
  • Saint Bonaventure , Franciscan monastery, Schwaz
  • Church in the episcopal high school Paulinum, Schwaz, 1938: 14 Stations of the Cross , painted on sheet copper, originally painted for the Innsbruck Clinic Chapel, which was demolished in 1998, in its current location since 2007
  • Triptych, wedding hall of the town hall, Schwaz, 1941
  • Nursing mother in front of the Schlern , 1941, private property

Illustrations (selection)

  • Illustrations for Alpenbote (calendar)
  • Illustrations for Sonnenland (magazine)
  • 1955: "The most beautiful Tyrolean sagas" by Karl Paulin

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Rieder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimatblätter - Schwazer Kulturzeitschrift: Rescue, preservation and promotion of traditional things . Number 36, 1998, publisher: Museum and Heimatschutzverein Schwaz, p. 4
  2. ↑ Bischöfliches Gymnasium Paulinum Schwaz: 81st Annual Report 2013/2014 , pp. 58–61.
  3. ↑ a b Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol , Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 138-139 .
  4. ↑ Heimatblätter - Schwazer Kulturzeitschrift: 100 Years of the Catholic Austrian Student Union Frundsberg . Number 43, 2000, Ed .: Museum and Heimatschutzverein Schwaz, p. 29.
  5. ↑ Culture reports from Tyrol 2009 - Annual report of the Federal Monuments Office 2007 . Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, pp. 121–122.
  6. ↑ a b Reinhard Rampold: Carl Rieder. 1898 - 1980. Glass paintings - frescoes - sgraffiti. Ed .: Museum and Heimatschutzverein Schwaz, 2007, pp. 68–69.
  7. ↑ Vorarlberg Catholic Church: City Parish Church of the Holy Cross . Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  8. ^ Erlöserpfarre Lustenau Rheindorf: History of the Erlöserpfarre . Retrieved November 13, 2016.
  9. ↑ Stadtpfarre Woergl: III. The interior . Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  10. ↑ Parish Virgen: Parish Church of St. Virgil ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 29, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.virgen.at
  11. ↑ Dr. Helmuth Öhler: The fresco “St. Joseph with baby Jesus and saints ” . In: Parish gazette of the Pradl parish. Volume 34, No. 164, October 2008, pp. 3–4. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  12. ^ Diocese of Innsbruck: The parish Ehrwald and its parish church . Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  13. ↑ Parish St. Alban, Matrei in Osttirol: Kaplanei Huben ( memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 29, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfarre-matrei.at
personal data
SURNAME Rieder, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rieder, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH black
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1980
Place of death black