Georg Pezolt

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Georg Pezolt (Sant'Antonio in Padua)

Georg Pezolt (also Petzoldt or Petzold ) (* May 8, 1810 in Salzburg ; † October 28, 1878 there ) was a Salzburg painter , architect and art writer and the first honorary monument conservationist in the city of Salzburg.

Life

Pezolt spent his apprenticeship with Johann Matthias Wurzer . At the age of 17 he was taken to Italy by the English archaeologist John Molitor , which had a lasting impact on Pezolt. In Italy he met the French genre painter Louis Léopold Robert , whom he joined until his suicide in 1835. He then returned to Salzburg in 1837, where he initially devoted himself entirely to painting. He soon published the “Most Interesting Points of Salzburg, Tyrol and the Salzkammergut” in 144 lithographs . After 1850 Pezolt devoted himself increasingly to other tasks. Due to the high esteem that Salzburg Archbishop Schwarzenberg held for him and later due to his function as a voluntary monument conservator, he had a significant influence on the ecclesiastical art of the archdiocese of that time. He had a significant influence on the newly founded Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum and was a significant member of the Salzburg Art Association . While Pezolt initially liked to deal with pictures from ancient Roman history, increasing positivism and romantic enthusiasm led him closer and closer to Nazarism , which manifested itself in an increasingly problematic duplication of artist and scholar. Georg Pezolt was a close friend of the painter Josef Mayburger , whom he repeatedly encouraged to develop his own knowledge and skills.

His only architectural work that was carried out was the Borromeo Church, built between 1848 and 1853, at the “Old Borromaeum” (Lodron's Primogeniture Palace) on Mirabellplatz in Neustadt , which was built in neo-Byzantine style but was demolished in 1972. Apart from the restoration design of the tower of the Franciscan Church , the monument-preservation-artistic work was often strongly influenced by historicizing imagination. Pezolt's contribution to the preservation of Salzburg's old town and the city's cultural heritage remains undisputed.

Georg Pezolt is buried in the Petersfriedhof Salzburg (group 402, no. 34).

Works

Visual arts
  • Visitation of the Virgin Mary , oil on canvas, 1830, Michaelbeuern Abbey.
  • Mary with child, Johannesknaben and St. Elisabeth , oil on canvas, 1830, Michaelbeuern Abbey.
  • The most interesting points of Salzburg, Tyrol and Salzkammergut . 3 volumes. With 144 lithographs and text sheets. Salzburg, at Jos. Upper, 1837-1839.
  • Venice, View of the Frari Church , oil on canvas, 1839.
  • Der Stauffen at Salzburg , oil on canvas, 1847 (Fig .: Dorotheum , Vienna)
  • Salzburg and its additions from the areas of nature, art and folk customs . 3 volumes. With 170 lithographs on 152 plates. Salzburg, 1849.
  • Southern Italian family idyll , oil on panel, 1850.
  • Picturesque journey through the Lombard-Venetian kingdom. Translated from Italian. With original views, engraved on steel based on the drawings by G. Pezolt, H. 2–4., Carlsruhe: Creuzbauer [u. a.], 1834-1835.
  • Frescoes in early Christian style in the Gertraudenkapelle in the Petersfriedhof in Salzburg
  • Copy of the third oldest and very detailed view of the city of Salzburg “Salzburg from Kapuzinerberg in 1565” (52.5 × 149.5 cm, 1856, original stolen by American occupation soldiers, only surviving copy by Pezolt).
  • Steel engravings in: From Vienna to Munich . Travel guide for all stations of the Kaiserin Elisabeth-Westbahn and the k. bair. State railway and Danube journey from Passau to Vienna . Literary and artistic department of the Austrian Lloyd , Trieste 1861
architecture
  • Borromeo Church in the new town of Salzburg , built in neo-Byzantine style, 1848–1853 (demolished in 1972)
  • Archbishop's Chapel in the Archbishop's Palace, newly acquired by Archbishop Tarnóczy , 1865.
didactics
  • "Lectures on the History of Christian Art" (1866)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artvalue.com: Oil paintings and watercolors of the 19th century *, Vienna, Monday, June 14, 2010 / Lot 237 (accessed on January 23, 2015)

literature

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Pezolt, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petzoldt Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1878
Place of death Salzburg