Engelbert Kolp

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Engelbert Kolp (born October 28, 1840 in Flirsch , † August 21, 1877 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

The farmer's son, born in Flirsch im Stanzer Tal , grew up in Holzgau im Lechtal after the family moved . He showed a talent for carving and received his first training with the lithographer and draftsman Anton Falger in Elbigenalp . In 1860 he moved to Munich , where he first worked in the workshop of Anselm Sickinger and from November 1863 studied with Joseph Knabl and Max von Widnmann at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts . In 1866 he founded his own studio in Munich, in which he later employed several employees. He mainly created religious sculptures in the style of the late Nazarene for churches in Bavaria and Tyrol , but also beyond. Johann Piger and Josef Ignaz Sattler were among his students . Kolp was a member of the Association for Christian Art in Munich.

On October 18, 1874, he married Anna Pembaur, the sister of the music director Josef Pembaur, in Innsbruck . Their son Paul Vinzenz was born in 1875 and died in 1877 at the age of one and three quarters. Engelbert Kolp fell seriously ill in the autumn of 1876 and retired to the low mountain range near Innsbruck to relax . On August 21, 1877, he died of tuberculosis at the age of 36 .

Works

Relief on the grave of the Servites at the Innsbruck municipal cemetery (1876)
  • Pulpit, figures on the high altar and on the right side altar, Holzgau parish church , 1860–1870
  • Crucifixion group, St. Peter and Paul , Oberbrunn, 1870
  • Group Adoration of the Shepherds, Birmingham , 1872
  • Bust of Matthäus Nagiller , Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum , 1873
  • Last Supper group and reliefs of the sacraments, Corpus Christi altar, St. Johann parish church , Erding, 1875
  • Relief Walther von der Vogelweide for the Innsbrucker Liedertafel, 1875
  • Gravestone of Matthäus Nagiller, municipal cemetery , Innsbruck, 1876
  • Oak wood relief crucifixion group with St. Philippus Benizi and Anna Caterina Gonzaga, grave site of the Servites at the Innsbruck municipal cemetery, 1876
  • Crucifixion group, Ustersbach

literature

Web links

Commons : Engelbert Kolp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 01991 Engelbert Kolp , register book 1841–1884 of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  2. ^ Announcements. In:  Innsbrucker Tagblatt , October 23, 1874, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibt
  3. ↑ On the death of Mrs. Anna Kolp-Pembaur. In:  Tiroler Anzeiger , May 2, 1934, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / tan
  4. ↑ Obituary. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , June 20, 1877, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn
  5. ^ Heinrich Hammer: The palaces and civil buildings of Innsbruck. Art history guide through the buildings and monuments . Hölzel, Vienna 1923, p. 203 ( tugraz.at [PDF; 1.4 MB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Kolp, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Flirsch
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1877
Place of death innsbruck