Engelbert Westreicher

Engelbert Westreicher (born September 20, 1825 in Pfunds , † January 20, 1890 in Linz ) was an Austrian sculptor and produced works of the so-called joiner's Gothic.

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Engelbert Weistracher was born as the son of a master baker in Pfunds in Tyrol, studied with the Tyrolean sculptor Franz Renn and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on November 14, 1847 .

In 1857 he set up a powerful workshop for church art in Linz , which received orders from various countries of the monarchy. His works include more than 100 larger and smaller, neo-Gothic altars in Upper and Lower Austria, 26 pulpits, two large organ cases and several hundred statues of saints .

His students included u. a. Hans Greil .

Works

Pulpit of the Steyr parish church

The following is an exemplary list of works that were partially removed in the course of renovations in the 20th century.

In Upper Austria :

Stadtpfarrkirche Steyr : pulpit
Monastery church in the convent hospital of the Brothers of Mercy Linz (main altar and side altars, 1866)
Parish church Hargelsberg : high altar (1867)
Parish church Traberg : high altar (1878)
Perg parish church : high altar and pulpit (1880)
Parish church Zwettl an der Rodl : high altar, two side altars, pulpit (1881)
Parish church Schwertberg : Mary with the baby Jesus (1886)
Gunskirchen parish church : high altar (1887)

In Lower Austria :

Behamberg parish church : side altars
Parish church Erla : high altar (1865/66), side altar (1872) and Sacred Heart Altar with canon tables and pulpit (1883)
Parish church Waidhofen an der Ybbs : three altars and a pulpit
Monastery church of St. Franziskus in Waidhofen an der Ybbs : Lourdes grotto Immaculate Conception and child Bernadette

Otherwise:

Parish church Mils near Imst : 3 figures of the main altar (Petrus, Paulus, Maria)
Parish Church of St. Jacob in Světlík : interior design (1872 to 1874)

literature

Linzer Zeitung , 1865, No. 48
Constantin von Wurzbach : Westreicher, Engelbert . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 55th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1887, p. 179 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Engelbert Westreicher - Collection of images, videos and audio files

B. Prokisch: Westreicher, Engelbert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon.

Individual evidence

^ Matriculation book 1841 to 1884
↑ Ferdinand Krackowizer , Franz Berger: Biographisches Lexikon des Landes ob der Enns, scholars, writers and artists. Institute for Old Bavarian Local History, Passau / Linz 1931, p. 368 ( digitized from literature.at).
^ Siegfried Haider : History of Upper Austria. Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Linz 1987, p. 367 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
↑ Georg Wacha : The Herz-Jesu-Kapelle of the Linz Freinbergkirche and the holy arts. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 135a, Linz 1990, p. 259 (full article, pp. 231-262, PDF (647 kB) on ZOBODAT ).

personal data
SURNAME	Westreicher, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian artist of the fine arts
DATE OF BIRTH	September 20, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pfunds
DATE OF DEATH	January 20, 1890
Place of death	Linz

[1] Matriculation book 1841 to 1884

[2] Ferdinand Krackowizer , Franz Berger: Biographisches Lexikon des Landes ob der Enns, scholars, writers and artists. Institute for Old Bavarian Local History, Passau / Linz 1931, p. 368 ( digitized from literature.at).

[3] Siegfried Haider : History of Upper Austria. Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Linz 1987, p. 367 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[4] Georg Wacha : The Herz-Jesu-Kapelle of the Linz Freinbergkirche and the holy arts. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 135a, Linz 1990, p. 259 (full article, pp. 231-262, PDF (647 kB) on ZOBODAT ).