Emanuel Max von Wachstein
Emanuel Max Ritter von Wachstein (born October 19, 1810 in Bürgstein , † February 22, 1901 in Prague ) was a Bohemian sculptor .
Life
He came from the Max sculptor and painter dynasty , which also provided the young Emanuel Max with technical training. In addition, he received art lessons from well-known personalities such as Joseph von Führich , Joseph Bergler and Leopold Kupelwieser . At the age of 27 he modeled the marble portrait bust of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the Clementinum in Prague. The following year he created the statue of the Guardian Spirit of Austria for the monument of the Tyrolean defenders in the court church in Innsbruck . An extensive study trip took Emanuel Max to Italy , where he stayed in Rome from 1839 to 1847 on a scholarship .
From 1850, Emanuel Max is proven to be a self-employed artist in Prague. The figure of John the Baptist on the lid of the baptismal font of the Tyn Church , made around 1846, is one of the first independent works from Max's studio.
In the years from 1855 to 1859 he created three stone groups of figures of saints and patrons for the Charles Bridge . In addition to a large number of portrait busts and statues for the city of Prague and its surroundings, four monumental statues were also created for the General Hall of the Military History Museum in Vienna . In 1893, Emanuel Max published an autobiography entitled 82 Years of Life . In 1896 he was raised to the nobility , in 1901 Emanuel Max died very old at the age of 90 in Prague.
Works (excerpt)
- 1855: Statue of St. Francis of Assisi , Charles Bridge, Prague (since the 1990s in the Lapidarium of the Prague National Museum , replica on Charles Bridge)
- 1857: Statue of St. Christopher , 1857, Charles Bridge, Prague (original in the Lapidarium of the Prague National Museum, replica on Charles Bridge)
- 1859: Pietà , Charles Bridge, Prague (original in the lapidarium of the Prague National Museum, replica on Charles Bridge)
- Monument to Franz Josef von Dietrichstein-Proskau-Leslie , Nikolsburg
- 1863: Portrait bust of Alfred Fürst Windisch-Graetz , white marble, 56 × 43 × 73 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
- 1866: Tomb for the prima donna Emilie Schmidt (1836–1866), Turnau
- 1867: Statue of Emperor Karl V , Carrara marble , Army History Museum, Vienna
- 1867: Statue of Emperor Ferdinand III. , Carrara marble , Army History Museum, Vienna
- 1868: Statue of Hieronymus von Colloredo-Mansfeld , 1868, Carrara marble , Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
- 1868: Statue of Field Marshal Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg , Carrara marble , Army History Museum, Vienna
- Monument to Field Marshal Josef Wenzel Radetzky , National Museum , Prague
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Max, Emanuel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 17th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1867, pp. 159–165 ( digitized version ).
- Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig 1930, Volume 24, p. 288.
- Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 118 f.
Web links
- Biography on portal.suedmaehren.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 118 f.
- ^ History of the Tyn Church> last paragraph (Czech), accessed on September 26, 2014.
- ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. The museum and its representative rooms . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1981, ISBN 3-7023-0113-5 , p. 37
- ↑ at books.google.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 11, 2013
- ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig 1930, Volume 24, p. 288
- ↑ Emanuel Max. In: portal.suedmaehren.at. January 11, 2012, accessed April 26, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Max von Wachstein, Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | bohemian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sloup v Čechách |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1901 |
| Place of death | Prague |