Franz Abart

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Franz Abart (born December 22, 1769 in Schlinig , † September 10, 1863 in Kerns ) was a South Tyrolean sculptor .

At his main place of activity, Kerns in the canton of Obwalden , he made numerous wooden crucifixes and figures of saints , and later also depictions of figures from Swiss history . His work was very popular in the contemporary context, but after 1857 it fell almost completely from the public eye.

Life

Abart was trained as a sculptor by the sculptors Mattia Punt or Pöder in his place of birth and then went on a journey to Alsace at the age of 14 . He worked in Strasbourg until the outbreak of the French Revolution , but then fled to Switzerland. After a short stay in Zug , he was in Sarnen from 1790 to 1828 in the service of the Swiss sculptor Balthasar Durrer . When Abart moved to Lucerne , he went into business for himself in the St. Niklausen district of Kerns . In the following years he received numerous private and public commissions, including from churches and monasteries in the vicinity of Kerns. The later famous Uri sculptor Heinrich Max Imhof was one of his students .

plant

Abart's main works are figures and reliefs on the main altar and on the pulpit and Brother Klaus on the gable front of the Kerns parish church, figures in the Mercy Chapel in the Einsiedeln monastery church , figures on the main altar of the Altdorf parish church , figures on the gable front of the Alpnach parish church and granite bears in front of the Bernese Historical museum .

literature

  • General artist lexicon. Vol. 1, VEB EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1983.
  • Otto Hess: Franz Abart . In: Obwaldner Geschichtsblätter , Heft 3, Sarnen 1913, pp. 5-53.

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personal data
SURNAME Abart, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tyrolean sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlinig , Vinschgau
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1863
Place of death Kerns , Canton of Obwalden