Eberhard Zobel

P. Eberhard Zobel, lithograph by Johann Pirkl, 1832

Eberhard Zobel (born April 14, 1757 in Schwaz as Johann Nepomuk Tiburtius Zobel , † April 27, 1837 in Fiecht ) was an Austrian Benedictine , painter , art collector and teacher . He founded a painting and drawing school in Fiecht Abbey , which produced numerous important artists.

Life

Johann Nepomuk Tiburtius Zobel was born as the youngest child of the doctor Eustach Dionys Zobel in Schwaz. In 1773, at the age of 16, he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Fiecht and took the religious name Eberhard. He was ordained a priest on February 19, 1780, and took vows on April 19 of the same year. He then worked as a pastor in the parishes of the monastery and taught at the grammar school in Merano for some time. When the monastery was closed under the Bavarian occupation in 1807, he went to Schwaz. After the restoration of the monastery, he was again active in pastoral care at various monastery parishes until 1820.

Zobel was an avid collector of engravings, drawings and paintings. In his free time, the artistically gifted autodidact painted and drew based on models in his collection. During his time as parish provisional officer of Stans he founded a painting and drawing school, which he continued in the Fiecht monastery. He taught his students in the sense of the prevailing classicism in architecture, perspective and anatomy. The school offered gifted young men from humble backgrounds the preparation for later attending an academy. Important painters and sculptors such as Johann Endfelder , Josef Arnold the Elder , Johann Pirkl , Kaspar Pichler , Joseph Hell , Joseph Friedrich Lentner and Thomas Lang emerged from the school. Six of Zobel's pupils were accepted into the art academy in Vienna or Munich . Zobel was also an artist himself and designed, for example, a classical high altar for the Schwaz parish church in 1805.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Zobel, Eberhard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 60th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1891, p. 216 ( digitized version ).
Monika Stern: Monasteries as mediators of knowledge in the Tyrol area, which have asserted themselves in their role since the secularization by Joseph II. Diploma thesis, University of Applied Sciences course information professions, Eisenstadt 2005, p. 39. hdl : 10760/6461
Walter Zwicknagl: Drawing and painting in a pen. Tyrolean daily newspaper from June 3, 2016

Individual evidence

↑ Erich Egg: The first three high altars of the Liebfrauenkirche in Schwaz. In: Heimatblätter - Schwazer Kulturzeitschrift, No. 48 (2002), pp. 8-10 ( PDF; 3.1 MB )

personal data
SURNAME	Zobel, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zobel, Johann Nepomuk Tiburtius (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Benedictine, painter, art collector and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH	black
DATE OF DEATH	April 27, 1837
Place of death	Fears

[1] Erich Egg: The first three high altars of the Liebfrauenkirche in Schwaz. In: Heimatblätter - Schwazer Kulturzeitschrift, No. 48 (2002), pp. 8-10 ( PDF; 3.1 MB )