Carlo Wostry

Carlo Wostry (born February 18, 1865 in Trieste , Austrian Empire , † March 10, 1943 in Trieste, Italy ) was an Italian painter.

Life

Carlo Wostry was on 18 February 1865, the son of Irish Ferdinando Wostry and the Venetian born Virginia Artelli in Trieste. From 1882 to 1885 he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . He then continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and made friends with the painter Umberto Veruda . After returning to his hometown of Trieste in 1887, the 22-year-old Wostry published his first work Via Crucis ( Way of the Cross ), which consisted of 14 blackboards, which later found their place in the Jesuit church of Santa Maria Maggiore .

In 1887 he received a scholarship for a two-year stay in Rome , but could not take the trip for health reasons. Wostry later stayed in Barcelona , Budapest and Russia , where his interest in orientalism was aroused.

In 1896 he moved to Paris . During his 7-year stay in the French capital, he illustrated numerous publications and wrote several articles, including for the French daily Le Figaro . In 1897 he painted Christ and Mary Magdalene for the parish church of Saint-Roch in Paris; In 1900 the martyrdom of Saint Justus followed for the Cathedral of Trieste . During a short stay in London in 1902, his painting was inspired by English works of art from the 18th century. His most important work from this phase is Scena Boschereccia , which is now kept in the Revoltella Museum in Trieste. Back in France, he spent time in Paris, Trouville-sur-Mer and Deauville .

Carlo Wostry: Apse of St. Andrew Church in Pasadena , California

After Wostry returned to his home town of Trieste, he worked on various works that he exhibited at international art exhibitions such as the Biennale di Venezia (1907, 1910, 1920, 1922, 1924 and 1925). From 1916 he taught as an art professor at the Istituto Industriale in Trieste. After the First World War , Wostry increasingly occupied himself with religious motifs in his works, those in the Church of St. Vincent-de-Paul in Paris, the Cathedral of San Giusto and the Church of Sant'Antonio Nuovo in Trieste and in the Basilica of San Francesco in Ravenna were integrated.

In 1926 he traveled to the United States of America and worked in New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles and Miami , among others . In 1930 Wostry was commissioned to equip St. Andrew Church in Pasadena , California , which would become one of his most important works. Originally only commissioned to produce a mural for the apse, his clients were so enthusiastic about his work that they entrusted him with the furnishing of a side chapel and in 1932 with the depiction of the various stations of the cross . Wostry traveled back to Trieste, where he made the 24 blackboards that were transferred to Pasadena in 1935.

In 1937 Wostry finally returned to Trieste, where he died on March 10, 1943.

Works (excerpt)

painting

• Via Crucis , Santa Maria Maggiore , Trieste, 1887
• Ritratto di Pietro Sartorio , Museo Sartorio , Trieste, 1888
• Parco di villa Sartorio di Monebello , Museo Sartorio , Trieste
• Il sonno , Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte, Trieste
• Cristo e Maria Maddalena , Saint-Roch parish church , Paris, 1897
• Martirio di San Giusto , San Giusto Cathedral , Trieste, 1900.
• "Portrait of Erma Bossi"
• Scena Boschereccia , Museo Revoltella , Trieste, 1902
• The Stations of the Cross , St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Pasadena, 1935

Book publications

• Carlo Wostry (1934): Storia del circolo artistico di Trieste , Udine.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fred Hogue. "Church's Mural Paintings Masterful: St. Andrew's, Pasadena, to Enshrine New Jewel With Completion of Colorful, Titanic Figures of Disciples and Saints," Los Angeles Times, December 28, 1930.
2. ^ Sergio Vatta, artist from Trieste in Munich. The training of a painter, in exh. Cat .: Erma Bossi, Eine Spurensuche, Schloßmuseum Murnau 2013, p. 34, fig. 4 and p. 115

Web links

Commons : Carlo Wostry  - Collection of images, videos and audio files