Franz Ehrenhöfer

Franz Ehrenhöfer (born July 29, 1880 in Reinberg near Vorau , Styria , † April 17, 1939 in Grosseto ) was an Austrian sculptor , craftsman and painter .

Life

After completing an apprenticeship and attending the arts and crafts school from 1894 to 1899, Ehrenhöfer studied from 1900 to 1907 with Hans Bitterlich and Edmund von Hellmer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . He then taught at the wood industry college in Villach until 1915 . Between 1916 and 1937 Ehrenhöfer taught at the Bolzano State Trade School before he spent the last years of his life at the Scuola Tecnica in Grosseto, where he also died.

Works

Ehrenhöfer created monuments and tombs as a sculptor. He was also active as a draftsman, painter and ceramist.

• 4 stone reliefs ( soldiers 'prayer, soldiers' suffering, soldiers 'loyalty, soldiers' song ) from the former Kaiserjäger memorial, Bozen , 1917/18 (demolished 1926/27), seized in 1930 and transferred to the Bergisel in 1941
• War Madonna ( nail figure ), Gries-Bozen, outer wall of the Muri-Gries Abbey (inauguration: June 29, 1917)
• Allegorical Figures Electricity, Steam and Rivers , Bolzano Train Station (1928)

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  Allegorical figure steam at the Bolzano train station

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  Allegorical figure Strom at the Bolzano train station

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  Allegorical figure Etschländer rivers at Bozen train station: Eisack and Rienz, Etsch and Passer

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  War Madonna in Bolzano Gries

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  Stone reliefs on the Bergisel (from the former Bozen Kaiserjäger monument)

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  Sculpture Loyalty to the Soldiers from the former Kaiserjäger Monument (cast in the Bolzano victory monument )

Web links

Commons : Franz Ehrenhöfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Inventory of the Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sabrina Michielli, Hannes Obermair (Red.): BZ '18 –'45: one monument, one city, two dictatorships. Accompanying volume for the documentation exhibition in the Bolzano Victory Monument . Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85256-713-6 , p. 80-83 .
2. ↑ Hildegard Schmid: Monument Imagerie of the political Austria of the 20s. In: Stefan Riesenfellner (Ed.): Stone consciousness I. The public representation of state and national identity of Austria in its monuments. Böhlau, Vienna 1998, p. 483.
3. ↑ (caption):  Inauguration of the iron landmark in Gries. In:  The Interesting Sheet , No. 28/1917 (XXXVI. Year), July 12, 1917, p. 7, top left, and p. 10 f. (Online at ANNO ). ;
   Martin Kronenberg: "For Emperor, King and Fatherland" - War nails in the Danube Monarchy in World War I. (...) Object: "War Madonna" ( memento of the original from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: kriegsnagelungen.de , sd 2014, accessed on April 22, 2014. 
4. ↑ Arnold Becke (Ed.): Etschländer Weinbuch: a collection of selected articles with many single and multi-colored pictures, overview maps of the Etschländer wine-growing region. Bozen: Vogelweider 1930, p. 105 (with ill.).