Franz Santifaller

Franz Santifaller (born December 14, 1894 in Meran , † January 12, 1953 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Family and life

The family name Santifaller is derived from the farm Santuel in the Val Gardena mountains and appears in the church registers of Brixen as early as 1412 .

The father came from Val Gardena , the mother, a nee Langes , belonged to a sizable farming family from Tesimo above Meran. After elementary school, Santifaller, following his will, went to the kk sculpture school in Laas , where the large marble quarries are located. After completing this apprenticeship, he attended the trade school in Bolzano. In 1914 he had to join the Kaiserschützen and came to the Russian front. In 1916 he came to Vienna , disabled , where he studied with Anton Hanak for a year (1918/19) . In 1920, a scholarship enabled him to study in depth in Rome and at the Art Academy in Paris , where he was influenced by Antoine Bourdelle and Charles Despiau . Since 1920 Santifaller had his permanent seat in Innsbruck and worked as a freelance artist in his studio in Mariahilf No. 7. In 1948 he was appointed head of a master school at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The artist died in Innsbruck after severe suffering.

Public purchases

• Austrian Gallery Belvedere , Vienna
• State Graphic Collection Albertina , Vienna
• Ferdinandeum Museum , Innsbruck
• Merano City Museum

Works - sculptures (selection)

Mariahilfbrunnen in Innsbruck (1926)

Tympanum relief above the central portal of the chapel of the Innsbruck Westfriedhof (1927)

• Friedrich Wilhelm Ellmenreich , portrait relief in Lasa marble. 1918.
• Höttinger war memorial 1914–1918 , artificial stone. 1921/22.
• The Sorrow , portrait of the tragedy Auguste Welten. Lasa marble. 1922
• Pietà from the war memorial 1914–1918. Gossensaß am Brenner, Lasa marble. 1924.
• Death mark . Porphyry relief in the cemetery in Sexten , Pustertal . 1924.
• Dead warrior from the war memorial in Sexten. South Tyrol, red porphyry. 1925/26.
• Mother of God with child as the coronation of the fountain column on Mariahilfplatz in Innsbruck, artificial stone. 1926.
• Putti carrying grapes , relief in marble from Lasa. Villa Achammer in Mühlau near Innsbruck.
• Gable figure for the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale . 1926.
• Portrait of the hotelier Friedrich L. Freytag , 1926. The sitter was a pioneer of the Merano hospitality industry. One copy of the bronze bust on Freytag's grave in the Merano municipal cemetery, a second on loan from the Merano Museum.
• Christ on the cross , hardwood, 1926/27. Comperdell refuge near Serfaus .
• Figure triptych Faith - Hope - Love , linden wood. 1926/27. Innsbruck West Cemetery , consecration hall.
• Christ and the four evangelists in the three tympana of the consecration hall at Innsbruck's Westfriedhof, 1928.
• Coat of arms of the city of Innsbruck with the year 1928. Relief in artificial stone. Architectural sculpture on the facade of the Milchhof in Innsbruck.
• Eagle coat of arms of the Austrian Republic , copper sheet drifting. 1928. Innsbruck, entrance to the Chamber of Labor. Originally intended for the Chamber of Labor in Linz, the eagle in sheet copper replaced a similar one in artificial stone from 1932, which had been removed in Innsbruck between 1938 and 1944.
• St. Notburga . 1928. In 1954, commissioned by the Tyrolean provincial government, cast from the wax model in the estate and purchased by the state.
• Bust of the Tyrolean poet Heinrich von Schullern , 1928. Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck. Modeled ready for bronze or stone.
• South Tyrolean peasant girl (portrait study by Mathilde Schrott). 1928. Neustift near Brixen.
• Portrait of the composer Karl Koch , 1929.
• Worker of the Mind , bronze figure. 1928/29. On the facade above the entrance to the Chamber of Labor in Linz ad Donau. Dismantled during the Second World War and melted down in Ebelsberg.
• Reliefs with toys, animals, stars . Decorative building sculpture (decoration of the window frames) in artificial stone on the street facades of the kindergarten in Innsbruck-Pradl. 1930.
• Portrait bust National Councilor Hans Muchitsch , Lasa marble. 1930.
• Portrait bust of the Tyrolean poet Joseph Georg Oberkofler , bronze. 1930.
• Bronze bust of the Innsbruck architect Hans Fritz . Actually a bronze mask, 1931. Belvedere Gallery in Vienna (acquired in 1933).
• Bronze bust of the MP Josef Holzhammer (1850–1942), executed in bronze and marble. 1932. Bronze bust on Holzhammer's grave and in the vestibule of the Innsbruck Chamber of Labor. A marble bust in the staircase of the Innsbruck regional health insurance fund, whose founder was a wooden hammer.
• Marble bust of the Tyrolean poet Heinrich von Schullern . 1932. Acquired in 1953 by the Tyrolean provincial government for the Ferdinandeum Museum.
• Pomona , bozzetto in bronze. 1932-1934. Vienna, Austrian Gallery in the Belvedere (acquired in 1935).
• St. Francis , oak wood. 1933. Bolzano, new municipal cemetery, Franciscan arcade.
• Bronze bust of Anna Countess du Parc , 1934, Merano, Rubein Castle.
• Portrait of the centenary bear owner Hans Innerhofer in Innsbruck. 1934/35. Innsbruck, Museum Ferdinandeum and Meran, city museum, on whose behalf the artist created the bronze portrait of the artist who was born on September 27, 1836 in Meran in autumn 1934.
• Portrait bust of the Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg , bronze, 1934/35. Austrian pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair 1935 . After the exhibition in the Federal Chancellery in Vienna, the work was melted down after 1938.
• Portrait bust of Ernst Rüdiger Prince Starhemberg . Vienna 1935.
• Crucified with angels , bronze relief. Milland near Brixen. Tomb of the primary physician Dr. Pius Dejaco. 1935.
• Four apostles - St. James the Elder J., Simon, Judas Thaddäus and Thomas . Sandstone. 1935-1936. Vienna- Floridsdorf , Catholic parish church Floridsdorf , top row of niches on the facade. The architect of the church was Prof. Ing. Robert Kramreiter .
• Bronze bust of an old Viennese (Hofrat Dr. Arthur Ender). 1936.
• Bronze portrait of university professor Carl Mayer , 1936/37. Innsbruck, entrance hall of the psychiatric-neurological clinic. A second copy in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum. The bust was created at the suggestion of lecturer Dr. Hans Ganner after the scholar's death († April 24, 1936).
• Portrait relief Anna von Schullern , b. von Thurn (†). Lasa marble, life-size. 1938. Innsbruck, Westfriedhof.
• Christ's head , 1938/39. Executed in bronze, the work is on the artist's tombstone in Innsbruck, Mariahilfer Friedhof . Full of pain over the resettlement of the German population, Santifaller called the head "In memoriam South Tyrol 1939".
• Three siblings . Portrait relief. Today in Philadelphia (USA). The depicted are the children of the painter Peter Wackerle, who died prematurely in 1935.
• Coat of arms for the Graßmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck. 1946, owned by the Grassmayr bell foundry .
• Mathilde Pancheri's tomb . Lasa marble. 1947. Innsbruck, Mühlauer Friedhof .
• Bronze bust of the historian University Professor Leo Santifaller . 1950.

literature

• Mountain country. Innsbruck, 1923. First brief appraisal with 8 illustrations of earlier works.
• Yearbook Country in the Mountains. Bolzano 1924. Illustration "The Suffering".
• Artur Nikodem: Tyrol and its art. In: Hellweg. Wochenschrift der Deutschen Kunst, Essen, 5th year, issue 45. November 11, 1925. Two illustrations.
• Josef Graber: Christian Art in Tyrol. On the occasion of the exhibition "Tyrolean Artists" in Westphalia-Rhineland. In: The Christian Art . Munich, year 22, issue 4, January 11, 1926. One illustration.
• Heinrich Hammer : From today's Tyrolean art. For the exhibition in Düsseldorf. "Tirol" magazine, Nature-Art-People-Life. Born in 1926, booklet 1. An illustration.
• Joseph Georg Oberkofler: Sculptor Franz Santifaller. In: The German family. Tyrolia, Innsbruck, 4th year, volume 2, 1927. Illustration of the Innsbruck cemetery figures.
• Hans Hochenegg: From the work of Santifaller. In: Tiroler Heimatblätter. Innsbruck 11th year, booklet 10, 1933. Five illustrations.
• Anselm Weißenhofer, sculptor Franz Santifaller. In: Kirchenkust. Vienna 6th year, booklet 2, 1934. Three illustrations.
• The great herder. Reference work, Volume 10, 1935, p. 715.
• Otto von Lutterotti : Santifaller, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 447 .
• Catalog Modern gallery in the Orangery of the Belvedere. Vienna, 1935. Portrait of the architect Hans Fritz, bronze.
• L'Autriche à L'Exposition Universelle Internationale de Bruxelles. 1935, p.
• Austrian art. Vienna, 6th year, volume 5, 1935. Austria at the world exhibition in Brussels.
• Robert Kramreiter: New church art in the spirit of the liturgy. 1935, The four apostles for the St. Josephs Church in Vienna-Floridsdorf.
• Austrian art in the 20th century. Exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bern, 1937.
• Karl Emerich Hirt, Some Tyrolean Artists. In: The picture. Monthly magazine Karlsruhe, issue 5, 1938. Illustration of the bust Innerhofer.
• Lexicon of creative and creative Austrians. Vienna 1950, Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei.
• Heinz Schöny: List of ancestors Franz Santifaller. In: Adler. Journal for Genealogy and Heraldry , Vienna, Volume 2, Issue 4, 1950.
• Karl Strobl: Tyrolean Art in Vienna. A look back at the exhibition in the Vienna Künstlerhaus. “Kunst ins Volk”, Vienna, 3rd year, part ¾, 1951.
• Heinrich Hammer: Art history of the city of Innsbruck. Innsbruck 1952, p. 371.
• Franz Santifaller: portrait drawings. Exhibition catalog, Innsbruck, University of Art History Institute, 1954.
• Otto von Lutterotti: The Tyrolean sculptor Franz Santifaller. 1894-1953. Inn-Verlag, Innsbruck 1955.
• Tiroler Landesregierung (Ed.): Exhibition catalog Prof. Franz Santifaller and his Tyrolean students. Innsbruck Art Pavilion, 1984.
• Santifaller, Franz . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 8 : Poethen – Schlueter . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094025-1 , p. 700 ( books.google.de ).

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