Gottlieb Schuller
Gottlieb Schuller (born October 12, 1879 in Auffach , Wildschönau , † December 6, 1959 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian glass painter and mosaic artist.
Life
Gottlieb Schuller's father Gottlieb Schuller sen. was initially a Reichsbahn employee and later archivist for Count Enzenberg (→ Enzenberg family ) and then archivist and draftsman for the city of Innsbruck. His mother Maria Gabl was the sister of the socially critical genre painter Alois Gabl .
Schuller attended the Bundesgewerbeschule in Innsbruck in the art classes of the painters Heinrich Comploj (1879-1967) and Toni Kirchmayr . From 1897 he worked at the Tyrolean glass painting and mosaic institute in Müllerstrasse in Innsbruck under Bernard Rice (* 1874 in Birmingham), who brought the English art nouveau and pre-Raphaelite art of glass to Tyrol . From 1919 to 1944 Gottlieb Schuller was the artistic director of the Tyrolean Glass Painting and Mosaic Institute . Gottlieb Schuller found his own formal language in the form of a romantic naturalism in connection with expressive elements.
His son was the architect Robert Schuller (1929–1990).
Works
- after 1900 stained glass in the parish church of St. Florian, Ingeniun and Albin in Untertilliach (Tyrol)
- 1927 Glass window and dome in the steam bath in Innsbruck in the late Art Nouveau style
- 1930 lead glass window in the Kurhaus in Hall in Tirol
- 1931 Marian mosaic from Santa Dolores in San Francisco ( California )
- 1934 Window of the Silent Night Chapel in Oberndorf near Salzburg
- 1935 window of the parish church of St. Cross in Going am Wilden Kaiser
- 1939 apse mosaic from St. Columbian in Chicago ( Illinois )
- 1950 stained glass of the parish church hl. Georg in Lauterach (Vorarlberg)
literature
- Paul von Naredi-Rainer, Lukas Madersbacher (Hrsg.): Art in Tirol. From the baroque to the present. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2007, ISBN 978-3-7022-2776-0 .
- Ursula Pittl: The glass painting of the interwar period in Tyrol and Vorarlberg in the sacred space. Using the example of Gottlieb Schuller, artistic director of the Tyrolean glass painting and mosaic company 1919-1944. Diss., University of Innsbruck, 1994.
- Regina Öschlberger: Robert Schuller. Architect and university teacher in Tyrol (1929-1990). Diss., University of Innsbruck, Building Faculty 2012.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuller, Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian glass painter and mosaic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auffach , Wildschönau |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1959 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |