Egon Weissenbach

Egon Weißenbach (* 1897 in Bischofteinitz ; † 1966 ) was an Austrian painter and restorer.

life and career

Egon Weißenbach was born in Bischofteinitz in 1897 as the son of the District Court Councilor August Weissenbach. His father was a long-time head of the district court and played a significant role in the city's social and cultural life.

Egon Weißenbach graduated from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . Church painting was his main activity in the long artistic activity. Many Austrian pilgrimage and cathedral churches owe him the new and restoration of their frescoes, for example St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. In 1936 he restored the miraculous image of Mariahilf by Lucas Cranach the Elder, which is in the high altar of Innsbruck Cathedral. He also presented his art at the Vienna Academy. In 1945 Weißenbach took over the management of the workshop for restoration work at the University of Applied Arts Vienna as an assistant. In 1951 he exposed the overpainted frescoes on the Maria Taferl pilgrimage church .

Individual evidence

↑ Ernestine Meisl, Johann Zauner: Gnadenbild Mariahilf. (PDF) Local Research Working Group. (No longer available online.) In: Gemeindekurier Marktgemeinde Sierndorf. Sierndorf, March 2017, p. 37 , archived from the original on November 13, 2017 ; Retrieved November 13, 2017 (122nd edition). 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. @1@ 2
↑ Martina Griesser-Stermscheg, Gabriela Krist: Metal Conservation, Metal Restoration: History, Method, Practice . In: Anthology on the occasion of the symposium "Metal Restoration - Metal Conservation" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna 2007 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2009, master class for restoration, p. 64, 65 (368 pp.).

^ Rudolf Schierer: The parish church of Gr.-Siegharts . a newly discovered baroque jewel of the Waldviertel. Ed .: The Waldviertel. No. 5/6 , 1961, pp. 75 ( daswaldviertel.at [PDF]).

personal data
SURNAME	Weissenbach, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bischofteinitz
DATE OF DEATH	1966

[1] Ernestine Meisl, Johann Zauner: Gnadenbild Mariahilf. (PDF) Local Research Working Group. (No longer available online.) In: Gemeindekurier Marktgemeinde Sierndorf. Sierndorf, March 2017, p. 37 , archived from the original on November 13, 2017 ; Retrieved November 13, 2017 (122nd edition). 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. @1@ 2

[2] Martina Griesser-Stermscheg, Gabriela Krist: Metal Conservation, Metal Restoration: History, Method, Practice . In: Anthology on the occasion of the symposium "Metal Restoration - Metal Conservation" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna 2007 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2009, master class for restoration, p. 64, 65 (368 pp.).

[3] Rudolf Schierer: The parish church of Gr.-Siegharts . a newly discovered baroque jewel of the Waldviertel. Ed .: The Waldviertel. No. 5/6 , 1961, pp. 75 ( daswaldviertel.at [PDF]).