Franz Gastell (sculptor)

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Franz Gastell (born February 21, 1840 in Schwanheim ; † October 14, 1927 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

He was born as the eldest son of the sculptor and stonemason Johann and his wife Katharina (née Leimer) in Schwanheim, which at that time did not yet belong to the city of Frankfurt am Main . He attended secondary school in Mainz and then at the age of 16 went to his uncle Josef Leimer in Vienna , where he began to study sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts . His teacher there was Franz Bauer . In 1862 Gastell was awarded the Füger Prize. He completed his studies under Ernst Hähnel at the Dresden Art Academy . Gastell then went on study trips to Paris , Prague , Berlin and Rome .

Statue "Justice" (Vienna City Hall)

In 1872 Franz Gastell founded his own atelier in Vienna and profited greatly from the historical building boom of the Ringstrasse era . He received many orders for sculptural jewelry on the monumental buildings that were being built at that time. In 1870 Gastell exhibited his works in Munich, in 1877 at the Vienna historical exhibition in Vienna, where he showed a marble statue of Guido von Starhemberg , which was intended for the general hall of the kk court weapons museum . For the building of the Kunsthistorisches Museum he created the four figures in the tabernacles (“Talent”, “Measure”, “Enthusiasm” and “Willpower”), for the Parliament and the Burgtheater he also made sculptures. In 1882 he made the plaster model for the Viennese town hall man based on a design by Friedrich von Schmidt , followed by sculptures on the main portal of the Vienna town hall ("Justice" and "Strength").

In 1872 he married Amalia, b. Benk. In 1885 Gastell and his wife moved to Schwanheim, where he was born, after an eye disease made it increasingly difficult for him to work as an artist. However, in 1898 he began work on the high altar of the St. Mauritius Church there . On October 14, 1927, he died, almost blind, in his house across from the church, which he shaped artistically.

Works (excerpt)

  • Statue of Guido von Starhemberg , Carrara marble , 1875, Feldherrenhalle of the Army History Museum , Vienna
  • Statuette Wiener Rathausmann , pewter painted black, 1914, 8 × 7 × 31 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
  • High altar of St. Mauritius Church, Frankfurt-Schwanheim, 1898–1906

literature

  • Agnes Rummeleit: Schwanheimer WeibsBilder = the port 21. Museum messenger of the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Schwanheim eV Frankfurt 2016. ISBN 978-3-944542-12-6
  • Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 51 f.
  • Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig 1920, Volume 13, p. 241 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. The museum and its representative rooms . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1981, ISBN 3-7023-0113-5 , pp. 33 and 49
  2. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 51 f.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig 1920, Volume 13, p. 241 f.
  4. ↑ Rummeleit, p. 14.
  5. ↑ Rummeleit, p. 18.
  6. ↑ The high altar in St. Mauritius ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on bistumlimburg.de, accessed on July 16, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / maujoh.bistumlimburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Gastell, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt-Schwanheim
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1927
Place of death Frankfurt-Schwanheim