Franz Xaver Kolb

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Side altar of the Schönenbergkirche with representation of Franz Xaver, Franz Xaver Kolb 1866
College chapel in Mehrerau, Franz Xaver Kolb 1887

Franz Xaver Kolb (born November 27, 1827 in Ehingen (Danube) , † June 30, 1889 in Ellwangen (Jagst) ) was a German church painter.

life and work

Franz Xaver Kolb was born in Ehingen on the Danube in 1827 as the son of the saddler and later sacristan Franz Kolb and his wife Marianne nee. Mietinger born. Kolb's 18 years younger brother Hans (1845-1928) was also a draftsman and painter and was director of the Royal School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart. Little is known about his childhood and youth in Ehingen, but his parents' home and hometown gave him a strong Catholic influence.

Franz Xaver Kolb initially studied theology for several semesters at the University of Tübingen from 1847 to 1849 as a convict of the Wilhelmsstift and switched to painting in 1849. At the age of 21, he enrolled at the Munich Royal Art Academy on November 17, 1849 , but was absent from October 1852 until (...) and rejoined until the end of the summer semester 1853. He received the matriculation on March 4, 1854. In Munich he joined the history painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach in painting . Kolb settled in Ellwangen . He married (when?) Luise Franziska geb. Jonas. The marriage remained childless.

Prelate Dr. Franz Joseph Schwarz (1821–1885) in Ellwangen, Kolb arranged numerous church restorations in the Diocese of Rottenburg , for example in Bad Mergentheim, Geislingen, Bollingen, Nenningen, Ehingen (Danube), Ellwangen and Hohenberg.

Church paintings by him can be found in Regensburg in St. Jakob and in Feldkirch in Vorarlberg. Panel paintings by his hand from 1886 can be found in the chapel of the grammar school of the Mehrerau monastery in Vorarlberg near Bregenz. Another panel is in the Ellwang pilgrimage church Schönenberg on a side altar. Kolb was a member of the Munich Association for Christian Art .

Works (selection)

  • 1865: Schönenberg pilgrimage church; Chapel of Mercy; High walls of the Loretto Chapel.
  • 1865–1866: Altarpiece for the “chapel” of the Schönenberg pilgrimage church, depicting “Franz Xaverius”.
  • 1870: Wolfgang Church in Ellwangen.
  • 1879: Painting of the Jakobuskirche in Hohenberg .
  • 1879: Marienkirche in Ellwangen. Restoration based on the drawings by Franz Xaver Kolb.
  • 1880–1884: The Mehrerau Abbey Church is decorated with 131 paintings. None of the pictures remained.
  • 1888: Panel paintings in the congregation chapel of the former monastery and later grammar school in Mehrerau .

literature

  • Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden, Josef Anselm (1997), Franz Xaver Kolb (1827–1889) - Prelate Dr. Franz Joseph Schwarz (1821–1885). In: Holy Art: Membership of the Art Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart , Vol. 29, pp. 19-23 (biography).
  • Faber, J. (1928), keyword “Kolb, Franz Xaver”. In: Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, General Lexicon of Visual Artists . Leipzig: Reprint VEB EA Seemann Verlag, Vol. 21, Knip – Krüger, p. 222.
  • Schwarz, Prelate Dr. Franz Joseph (1884), restoration and picturesque decoration of the Mehrerau Abbey Church. In: Archive for Christian Art , vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 92–98.

Web links

Commons : Franz Xaver Kolb  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Register of the "Academy of Fine Arts Munich", register book 1841–1884, No. 770. [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tübingen University Archives, Die Tübingen Students 1818–1918, No. 23903, order number: 41 / 14.29. There the date of birth was "23.11.1827" (sic!).
  2. ↑ See under web links.
  3. ^ Association for Christian Art in Munich (ed.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th year. Anniversary. Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, p. 85.
personal data
SURNAME Kolb, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehingen (Danube)
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1889
Place of death Ellwangen (Jagst)