Franz Xaver Pendl

Franz Xaver Pendl: The Whitsun event, altar relief in the hospital church of Merano

Franz Xaver Pendl (born May 5, 1817 in Merano ; † June 23, 1896 in Untermais , Merano) was a Tyrolean sculptor.

Life

After training with his father Johann Pendl , he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1838 to 1842 under Josef Klieber  and Leopold Kupelwieser and worked in Johann Nepomuk Schaller's studio . From 1842 to 1846 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Konrad Eberhard, among others . From 1846 he worked in Meran, where he took over his father's workshop. He mainly created religious sculptures in the neo-Gothic  style.

His son Emanuel Pendl also became a sculptor.

Work (selection)

• Ahrntal , St. Jakob, Pietà
• Eppan , Girlan , kg cemetery chapel, on the Altarmensa Descent from the Cross
• Avelengo , parish church of St. John the Baptist, crucifix
• Kaltern , Franciscan Church St. Claudia , high altar, minor characters Joachim and Anna
• Kaltern, Franciscan monastery Kaltern , sculpture, crucifix
• Meran, St. Barbara , Immakulata
• Meran, parish church of St. Nikolaus , large figures at the music choir, Peter and Paul
• Meran Spitalkirche , carved altar retable at the Whitsun event, the wings of the former carved altar in the parish church of Partschins , by Jörg Lederer
• Meran Spitalkirche , sculpture Jesus on the Mount of Olives
• Meran St. Valentin, facade figures
• Meran Christ Church , crucifix on the altar and four reliefs on the altar and pulpit
• Moos in Passeier , St. Ursula in Platt, Guardian Angel
• Mühlwald , parish church St. Gertrud, crucifix
• Proveis , parish church of St. Nicholas, wooden crucifix
• Schenna , mausoleum (grave of Archduke Johann and his family) , facade figures, crypt altar

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Pendl, Franz (in the father's article) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 21st part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1870, p. 451 f. ( Digitized version ).
• E. Egg , E. Kühebacher :  Pendl Franz Xaver. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 405.
• Maria Hölzl Stifter: Between the artistic styles of his time. The sculptor Franz Xaver Pendl (1817–1896) and his work . In: Der Schlern , Volume 91, Issue 8, August 2017. pp. 4–63.

Web links

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

• Death picture by Franz Xaver Pendl on sterbebilder.schwemberger.at

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol . Vol. I, 8th edition 1998, p. 592
2. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 270
3. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 624
4. ^ Josef Weingartner: The art monuments of South Tyrol . Vol. II, 7th edition 1991, p. 280
5. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 283
6. ^ Egon Tscholl: Small art guide Meran. Lana 1984, p. 19
7. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 559
8. ↑ Sebastian Marseiler: Paths to Art - The most important art monuments of South Tyrol. Bolzano 2011, p. 78
9. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 574
10. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 592
11. ↑ Merano parish: center - point of view - focal point , undated
12. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 703
13. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. I, p. 564
14. ↑ Weingartner, Vol. II, p. 469