Franz Xaver Bobleter

Portrait of Franz Xaver Bobleter

Franz Xaver Bobleter (born August 6, 1800 in Feldkirch , † May 2, 1869 in Feldkirch) was an Austrian painter.

The best-known works of Bobleter are his numerous portraits and landscapes in the Biedermeier style. His religious sculptures also reveal influences of the classicist and Nazarene styles. Today Bobleter is best known as the “house painter” of the Upper Austrian scythe-smith families of the Biedermeier period.

Live and act

Bobleter grew up in Feldkirch as the grandson of the painter Joseph Anton Bobleter, who had immigrated from Dornbirn . His great-uncle was the barrel painter Johann Michael Bildstein , his great-grandfather the Feldkirch painter Franz Joseph Walser . In November 1821 he traveled to Vienna via Salzburg on a loan from the city of Feldkirch , where he was tutored by the painters Joseph Anton Rhomberg and Johann Zitterer until he was accepted at the academy . During his studies (1822 to 1826) he carried out numerous commissions for portraits and altarpieces, for example for the priest house church in Vienna (1825), the churches of Stockerau, Fischamend, Enzersdorf, Schwadron and Großwetzdorf. In the summer of 1825 he went on a trip to Styria and in 1826 to the Wachau, where he made nature studies and miniature portraits. In 1827 two of his altarpieces were awarded the diploma of the Academy for History Painting.

On the journey from his place of study in Vienna to his homeland in Vorarlberg, he stopped briefly in Linz in May 1827 to visit a friend, the magistrate Ferdinand von Nagel, to paint a few pictures and to earn some money. He finally stayed - with interruptions - until 1846. After a short stay in the Vorarlberg homeland in 1828, he settled in Linz as a freelance artist and lived at Am Wasser No. 243 . From 1829 he drew and lithographed for the lithographic institute of Josef Hafner , with whom he had been friends since studying together at the Vienna Academy. In 1830 he got to know the Upper Austrian scythe factory Caspar Zeitlinger , who invited him to portray him and his family.

“I just now remember very vividly how, in accordance with your wishes, I soon came to you in that marvelous paradisiacal region and, by being warmly welcomed in your house, passed business and pleasure of all kinds alternately throughout the summer. You, your relatives, relatives and friends then induced me to return to a migratory bird for many years to come, and I confess in truth that it always happened with joy and pleasure. "

- FX Bobleter

The Zeitlinger , who was roughly the same age, became the artist's friend and patron , who rose to become the preferred portraitist of the nobility, the citizens of Linz and the Upper Austrian scythe trades. In the following years Bobleter created numerous portraits of the scythe-smith families Zeitlinger , Weinmeister , Piesslinger and Koller , which gave him respect and wealth. For example, according to the information in his catalog raisonné, he received 800 guilders for a portrait of the Koller family. In 1831 and 1832 he alternated between Kirchdorf an der Krems and Linz and traveled to Vienna to relax. In 1833 and 1834, at the invitation of Prince Schwarzenberg, he painted several portraits in Budweis and Krumau . Back in Linz, on the occasion of the death of Emperor Franz I, he created a series of portraits of his successor Ferdinand I. In 1838 a large group picture of the Weinmeister family from Spital am Pyhrn was created . In the following years, in addition to portrait painting, Bobleter increasingly devoted himself to depicting landscapes and restoring images of saints.

In 1846 Bobleter left his studio at Linz Zollamtsstrasse 3 and returned to his hometown Feldkirch, where he continued to work as a portrait and landscape painter, but also as a restorer and created several sacred pictures and frescoes. From Feldkirch he first sent the exhibition of the Upper Austrian Art Association in 1852 . Bobleter's works can be found, for example, in the Vorarlberg Museum in Bregenz, in the Schattenburg Museum in Feldkirch, in Upper Austria. Landesmuseum in Linz, and in Upper Austria. Scythe forge museum in Micheldorf. In addition, many of his works have been preserved in private ownership in Upper Austria and Vorarlberg.

Works (selection)

Caspar Zeitlinger's family (1830)

Family of Franz Seraphin Zeitlinger on the Zinne (1830)

Family of Christoph Conrad Weinmeister

Merchant (1831)

Three Business Friends (1831)

painting

• Altarpiece in the Priesterhauskirche, Vienna, 1825
• Altarpieces in Stockerau, Fischamend, Enzersdorf, Schwadorf and Großwetzdorf
• Portrait of a Lady with a Beaker (Feldkirch, Schattenburg Museum ), 1828, oil on canvas
• Self-portrait (Bregenz, vorarlberg museum ), around 1827
• Portrait of Johann Nepomuk Ungnad von Weissenwolff (private property), 1927
• Postmaster Carl Öllacher, his wife and parents (Wels, Stadtmuseum), 1829
• Family of Caspar Zeitlinger (Micheldorf, Upper Austria. Sense Forge Museum ), 1830, oil on canvas, 55 × 69 cm
• Family of Franz Seraphin Zeitlinger an der Zinne (Micheldorf, Upper Austria. Sensenschmiedemuseum ), 1830, oil on canvas
• Portrait of Franz Seraphin Zeitlinger (Micheldorf, Upper Austria. Sensenschmiedemuseum ), oil on canvas, 73.5 × 57.5 cm
• Portrait of Seraphine Maria Theresia Zeitlinger (Micheldorf, Upper Austria. Sensenschmiedemuseum ), oil on canvas, 72 × 56.5 cm
• Portrait of a lady from the Zeitlinger family of scythe smiths (Linz, Nordico City Museum ), around 1830, oil on canvas
• Merchant (Bregenz, vorarlberg museum ), 1831, oil on canvas
• Three business friends (Micheldorf, Upper Austria. Sensenschmiedemuseum ), 1831, oil on canvas, 57 × 43 cm
• View of the Kremstal from Ziehberg (Upper Austria. Sensenschmiedemuseum), oil on canvas
• Gnadenbild (Micheldorf, Upper Austria. Sensenschmiedemuseum ), oil on canvas
• Anna Maria Weinmeister (private collection), 1832, oil on canvas, 49.5 × 38.5 cm
• Portrait of Emperor Ferdinand I for the landscape meeting room of the Landhaus in Linz
• Portrait of Emperor Franz I ( Upper Austrian State Museum )
• Portrait of Archduke Karl (Upper Austria State Museum)
• Family of Christoph Conrad Weinmeister (private property), 1837, oil on canvas, 108 x 88 cm
• Gottlieb Weinmeister's family (private collection), around 1838, oil on canvas, 119 × 156 cm
• Way of the Cross of the parish church Linz, 1839 (not preserved)
• Altarpieces in the churches of Peuerbach, Neuhofen and St. Conrad, 1841
• Way of the Cross of the parish church Wolfern, 1841 (now in the parish church St. Johann am Wimberg)
• Family of Caspar Zeitlinger (private property), Linz 1842, oil on canvas, 168 x 125 cm
• Portrait of Franz de Paul Schröckenfux (private collection), 1842, oil on canvas, 49.5 × 37.5 cm
• Portrait of Katharina Pießlinger (private property), 1842, oil on canvas, 49.5 × 37.5 cm
• Portrait of Gottlieb II. Weinmeister with Medal of Merit (private property), 1843, oil on canvas, 76 × 58.5 cm
• Portrait of Gottlieb III. Weinmeister (private collection), 1843, oil on canvas, 74 × 58.5 cm
• Portrait of Juliane Weinmeister (private collection), 1843, oil on canvas, 74 × 58.5 cm
• View of the helmet factory in Dürnbach (private property), oil on canvas
• Altarpiece in the Evangelical Church in Linz, 1844
• Altarpiece in Windischgarsten, 1845
• Portrait of Johann Adam Piesslinger (private property), Linz 1845, oil on canvas, 81 × 65 cm
• Portrait of Theresia Piesslinger (private property), Linz 1845, oil on canvas, 81 × 65 cm
• Mathäus Koller's family (copy in private ownership), 1845, oil on canvas, 117 × 150 cm
• Chemical manufacturer Josef Fidel Ebenhoch and his family (Bregenz, vorarlberg museum), 1847, oil on canvas
• The Getzner & Comp. in the Felsenau near Frastanz
• Altar leaves in the old parish church of St. Michael in Feldkirch-Tisis, 1859/1860
• Frescoes under the arcades of the Feldkirch cemetery St. Peter and Paul
• Altar leaves in the Capuchin monastery in Feldkirch
• Altar leaves in the parish church of Gisingen
• Altar leaves in St. Peter in Rankweil
• Stations of the Cross in the Altenstadt parish church

Lithographs

• Pilgrimage church on the Pöstlingberg / next Linz (Vienna, National Library , inv. No. Vues II 21243; Linz, Nordico City Museum, inv. No. 2756, 2757; Upper Austria. Landesmuseum), lithograph, 20 × 26.7 cm
• Margareten und der Kalvarienberg / next Linz (Vienna, National Library, Inv.No. Vues II 21333; Linz, Upper Austria. Landesmuseum), 1829, lithograph, 20.5 × 27.5 cm
• Hagen Castle near Linz (Vienna, National Library, Inv.No. Vues II 19373; Upper Austrian State Museum), 1829, lithograph, 20.4 × 27.3 cm
• Ottensheim Castle / im Mühlkreise (Vienna, National Library, Inv.No. Vues II 21289; Linz, Nordico City Museum), 1829, lithograph, 20.5 × 27.5 cm
• View of the city of Feldkirch / in Vorarlberg (Linz, Upper Austria. Landesmuseum), lithograph, 32.7 × 49.5 cm
• Portrait of Josef Lüftenegger (Linz, Nordico City Museum, inv. No. 4154), 1829, lithograph, 32 × 22.5 cm
• Christ (Linz, Upper Austria State Museum), before 1830, 17 × 14.5 cm
• Mater dolorosa (Linz, Nordico City Museum, Inv.No. 7300), lithograph, 23.6 × 20.8 cm
• Ecce homo (Linz, Nordico City Museum, Inv. No. 7301), lithograph, 24 × 20.9 cm
• Laying out Savior (Linz, Nordico City Museum, Inv. No. 7304), lithograph, 15.9 × 25.4 cm
• Carl Remmark / Als Habakuk from the original magic game The Alpine King and the Misanthrope by Ferdinand Raimund (Linz, Nordico City Museum, inv. No. 4130; Upper Austrian State Museum; Vienna Museum), lithograph, 31 × 15.8 cm
• Portrait of Colonel Karl Ludwig Konstantin Freiherr von Schönnermark (Linz, Nordico City Museum, Inv. No. 4120), lithograph, 29.2 × 24.2 cm
• Gottlieb Weinmeister scythe smith at Spital am Pyhrn in Oberösterr. (Linz, Stadtmuseum Nordico, Inv. No. 4079), lithograph, 20.1 × 16.7 cm
• ARP Eremitus Fr. Xav. Zimmermann (Linz, Nordico City Museum, inv. No. 4046, 4047; Upper Austrian State Museum), 1840, lithograph, 14.7 × 15.5 cm

literature

• Ursula Krinzinger , b. Humpeler: The Vorarlberg painter Franz Xaver Bobleter (1800–1869) , dissertation, University of Innsbruck , 1965.
• Else Giordani: The Linz Hafner Offizin. Josef Hafner and his lithographic institute , Linz, 1962.
• A thousand years of Upper Austria . Catalog part 2, 1983. p. 360
• Lothar Schultes : On Franz Xaver Bobleter's early work . In: Yearbook of the Society for Regional Studies and Monument Preservation Upper Austria. Volume 1 2, Linz 20 17 , pp. 193-244.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Angelo Steccanella: Feldkirch's painter from the 17th century to the beginning of the 19th century . In: Manfred A. Getzner (Ed.): Collecting - Preserving - Researching - Mediating. 100 years of Heimatpflege- und Museumsverein Feldkirch 1912 - 2012 (= Rheticus Society [Hrsg.]: Series of publications . No. 56 ). Feldkirch 2012, ISBN 978-3-902601-32-2 ( online [PDF; 1.4 MB ; accessed on October 24, 2018]).
2. ↑ KULT.DOKU - Hidden Treasures from Austrian National Exhibitions
3. ^ Letter from FX Bobleter to his "valued friend" Caspar Zeitlinger; Feldkirch, April 24, 1847
4. ^ Reinhard Weidl: Church guide: St. Johann am Wimberg. Upper Austria. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1996, p. 14.

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