Egid Schor

Egid Schor (also Aegydius , Egidius , Ägyd , Egyd ; baptized 2 September 1627 in Innsbruck , † 2. July 1701 ) was an Austrian painter . He is considered to be the founder of baroque ceiling painting in Tyrol .

Life

Schors designs for ceiling decorations

Egid Schor was born as the fifth son of the painter Hans Schor in Innsbruck. He first learned from his father and went to Rome around 1655 , where his older brother Johann Paul Schor worked as a painter in the papal service. With his brother and fourteen other artists, he painted frescoes in the gallery of the Quirinal Palace in 1656/57 . He returned to Tyrol around 1665 and created altarpieces for the Stams and Wilten monasteries . In 1674 he applied for Innsbruck citizenship, which was rejected because he was unmarried. He then went on a hike and worked as a decorative painter in Salzburg , Linz , Vienna , Munich , Nuremberg and Augsburg .

On January 12, 1682, he married Barbara Gumpp vonfragenstein, the daughter of the baroque master builder Christoph Gumpp , in Innsbruck , after which he became a citizen of the city in 1683. In 1685 he was called to Munich  to make  festival decorations, theater sets and triumphal arches for the wedding of Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel with Maria Antonia of Austria . He then stayed in Augsburg and created designs for goldsmiths and ivory carvers. Returning to Innsbruck, he was appointed court painter by Duke Karl von Lothringen , the governor of Tyrol, and created paintings in the rooms of the Hofburg in addition to decorations for pageants and theater performances .

Schor had three children, Johann Ferdinand, Maria Anna and Maria Barbara. The son Johann Ferdinand Schor also became a painter.

As a decorative painter, Egid Schor created triumphal arches, theater sets, holy graves and the like and provided designs for handicrafts such as monstrances or chalices and book decorations . During his years in Rome he came into contact with Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona and brought their high baroque forms to Tyrol. He painted several altar leaves for churches in Innsbruck and the surrounding area and created ceiling paintings in the Wilten and Stams monasteries, which are considered to be the earliest Baroque ceiling paintings in Tyrol. Schor also played the violin and basset and composed.

Works

High altar image of the Wilten collegiate church (1671)

• High altar picture, Wilten Collegiate Church, 1671
• Side altarpiece St. Philipp Neri , St. Jakob Cathedral , Innsbruck, 1673
• Side altarpiece finding the cross , Barwies parish church , around 1685/1690
• Side altar paintings St. Liborius kneels before the Mother of God and Fourteen Holy Helpers , Mariahilfkirche , Innsbruck, after 1689
• Ceiling paintings, Wilten Abbey , 1696
• Painting in the apse, Stams collegiate church, 1691/1697
• Frescoes in the side chapel, Schabs parish church , 1697
• Side altarpiece St. Nikolaus von Tolentino , Augustinian Church Rattenberg

literature

• Schor, Egidius. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler (arrangement): New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 15, EA publishing house Fleischmann, Munich 1845, p. 502 ( urn : nbn: de: gbv: wim2-g-1795648 ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schor, Aegydius . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, p. 238 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Heinrich Hammer: The development of the baroque ceiling painting in Tyrol. Studies on German Art History, Issue 159, JH Ed. Heitz, Strassburg 1912, pp. 81–145 ( digitized version ).
• Silvia Carola Keller:  Schor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 477 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Egid Schor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Schor, Egid (Egydius) in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klemens Halder: The works of art of Wilten Abbey. In: Austria's museums introduce themselves, Volume 22 (1986), pp. 35–40 ( online PDF; 1.1 MB)
2. ^ Reinhard Rampold (ed.): Kunstführer Tirol. The 400 most important art treasures in North and East Tyrol. Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2014, p. 16
3. ^ Office of the Tyrolean provincial government, cultural department (ed.): Culture reports from Tyrol 2012. 63rd monument report. Innsbruck 2012, p. 52 ( online ; PDF; 12 MB)
4. ^ Schmid-Pittl, Wiesauer: Premonstratensian Canon Monastery Wilten, Wilten Monastery. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved February 29, 2016 . 
5. ^ Wiesauer: Collegiate Church Marie Ascension. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved February 29, 2016 . 
6. ^ Parish church of St. Margareth with cemetery chapel and cemetery in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
7. ↑ Reinhard Weidl: The churches of Rattenberg. Christian Art Centers in Austria, No. 564, Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2014 ( online )