Dominikus Trenkwalder

Dominikus Trenkwalder

Grave site at the Wilten cemetery in Innsbruck

Dominikus Trenkwalder (born April 22, 1841 in Angedair , † July 7, 1897 in Wilten ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

The son of a glazier and small farmer was interested in sculpture, but first learned the miller's trade. From 1857 he did an apprenticeship as a sculptor with Michael Stolz in Innsbruck, which he broke off after his father's death in 1860 to help out at home. From 1862 to 1864 he worked in the Mayr'schen Kunstanstalt for church work in Munich with Josef Knabl , then again with Michael Stolz. With grants from the Ministry of Culture and the Tyrolean estates, he undertook study trips to Vienna between 1867 and 1873 , where he worked in Josef Gasser's studio  , Munich and Italy. After a short stay in Rome  , he settled in Wilten (today a district of Innsbruck) in 1876 , where he ran a large workshop with many students. There he created numerous neo-Gothic altars and statues in marble and wood for churches throughout Tyrol and Vorarlberg , as well as grave monuments for cemeteries in Innsbruck, Wilten and Lienz , where he repeated successful works for various clients. Trenkwalder also worked as a restorer, among other things for the door inlays in Ambras Castle and, together with Franz Xaver Spörr , in the Pill parish church . He worked several times with his brothers Josef, Alois and Matthias, who also worked as cabinet makers and altar builders. Among his students were Franz Kobald and Alois Winkler .

Dominikus Trenkwalder was a bachelor all his life and, as a devout and practicing Catholic, devoted himself intensively to the sacred motifs in the then modern neo-Gothic style in the exercise of his sculpture. He is buried in the Wilten cemetery in Innsbruck. A street was named after him in the Innsbruck district of Höttinger Au .

Works (selection)

Altar in the fourteen helpers chapel in St. Leonhard, Meran, 1885

Pietà, St. Jakob Cathedral, Innsbruck, 1893

• Side altar Mary with the child on her lap presents the rosary to St. Dominic , Landeck parish church , 1862
• Side altar Lamentation of Christ , Landeck parish church , 1866
• High altar Queen of Heaven enthroned , Langesthei parish church , 1866
• Equipment, Sacred Heart Chapel at Landeck cemetery, 1869
• Marble group Thomas puts his fingers in the Lord's wounds , Spielmann's grave, Westfriedhof Innsbruck, 1871
• Relief Christ on the Mount of Olives , grave of Count Emanuel von Hendl, Innsbruck West Cemetery, 1874
• Side figures on the high altar, St. Gallus and St. Dominikus , Schnepfau parish church , around 1875
• High altar, New Parish Church Götzis , around 1875 (removed around 1960)
• Immaculate Conception statue , Strassen parish church , 1877
• Marble group The risen one appears to his St. Mother , Stummreich-Breinössl'sche grave, Westfriedhof Innsbruck, 1879
• Grave monument The Good Shepherd , Carnelli family crypt, Westfriedhof Innsbruck, 1880
• Side altar relief Death of St. Josef , parish church of St. Leonhard, Au , 1885
• Winged altar 14 emergency helpers , St. Leonhard, Meran , 1885
• Carved figures St. Joseph as a friend of children , St. Agnes , St. Pankratius , parish church Rankweil-St. Peter , 1890
• 14 Stations of the Cross, Tiroler Landesfriedhof Mariahilf , 1891
• Winged altar, parish church St. Nikolaus , Merano, 1892
• Statues of the Man of Sorrows and Pietà on the Triumphal Arch, St. Jakob Cathedral , Innsbruck, 1893
• Pietà , parish church of St. Sulpitius , Frastanz, 1895
• High altar figures of Mary of the Holy Rosary , St. Ulrich and St. Wolfgang , parish church Deutschnofen

literature

• Bruno Habicher: Dominikus Trenkwalder - life and work of a Tyrolean wood and stone sculptor 1841 - 1897 . Verlag Edition Tirol, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-85361-226-2
• Ellen Hastaba:  Trenkwalder Dominik (us). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 452 f. (Direct links on p. 452 , p. 453 ).
• Ekkart Sauser :  Trenkwalder, Dominikus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 1395. ( online ( Memento from June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Trenkwalder, Dominicus . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 47th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1883, p. 160 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Dominikus Trenkwalder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 184 .
2. ↑ Sparkasse Imst supports altar restoration in Landeck , mein district.at from July 4, 2016
3. ↑ The parishes in Landeck: Die Stadtpfarrkirche ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Gruber, Wiesauer: War memorial chapel, Herz-Jesu-Kapelle. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 7, 2018 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Heinrich Hammer: The palaces and civil buildings of Innsbruck. Art history guide through the buildings and monuments . Hölzel, Vienna 1923, p. 200–206 ( tugraz.at [PDF; 1.4 MB ]).
6. ↑ Thomas Kirisits: 150 Years Parish Church of St. Ulrich - a brief look at history. In: Contact, Parish Götzis, No. 4, September 2015, pp. 3-6 ( PDF; 2 MB )
7. ↑ Parish Strassen: Parish Church of St. Apostle James the Elder Elderly
8. ↑ Capuchin Foundation Liebeswerk Meran: Church of St. Leonhard
9. ↑ Hans Sperandio: An eventful history: St. Peter's Church. In: Pfarrblatt Rankweil, volume 2013/2014, number 14, pp. 4–5 ( PDF; 2.6 MB  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link accordingly Instructions and then remove this notice. )  
10. ↑ Reinhard Rampold: The parish and parish church of Mariahilf in Innsbruck. Festschrift for the 200th anniversary of the pastoral care . Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-7954-0625-0 , p. 52-53 .
11. ^ Reinhard Rampold (ed.): Kunstführer Tirol. The 400 most important art treasures in North and East Tyrol. Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2014, p. 16
12. ↑ Eggental: Parish Church Deutschnofen ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.