Hallein workshops for church art and applied arts

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Letterhead from the Adlhart Hallein workshop, 1915
Lion on the forecourt of Linz main station

The Hallein workshops for church arts and crafts J. Adlhart GmbH was a sculpture workshop in the municipality of Hallein in the province of Salzburg . There the workshop was located in the Cordon House in the Burgfried district.

history

After the Hallein Carving School had given up the Cordon House and moved to a new school building, the sculptor Jakob Adlhart the Elder acquired Ä. 1908/1909 the Cordon House and relocated his workshops for sculpture, barrel painting and gilding from Val Gardena to Hallein.

The workshop achieved great importance and a good reputation through the execution of orders for the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este in the Blühnbachtal and in Dalmatia. In addition, between 1911 and 1914 orders were taken on and carried out in Split and Larissa.

In 1926 Adlhart d. J. completed a crucifix, also known as the "Adlhart Cross", for which the Abbot Petrus Klotz of the St. Peter Abbey in Salzburg had commissioned. The Austrian Post included it in a series of special postage stamps in 2010. Other works include the marble mime masks above the main entrance (1926) for the Small Festival Hall in Salzburg , the stone reliefs with mask-wearing genii and figural decorations of the Mönchsbergstiege (1936/37), choir stalls for the Salzburg Cathedral , for the Kleßheim Palace sandstone eagles , for the Linzers Central station stone lions, and much more.

The sculpture workshop was closed in 1971 the son Jakob Adlhart the Elder. J. (born 1936) founded the architecture office "Adlhart Architects".

Employee

literature

  • Adolf Hahnl: The sculptor Jakob Adlhart. With an autobiography by the artist. Publishing house Müller. Salzburg 1980
  • Josef Brandauer: Max Domenig 1886 - 1952. Memorial exhibition in the Celtic Museum in Hallein. Editor: City of Hallein, cultural department. Hallein 1986

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Moosleitner: Hallein. Portrait of a small town. Hallein 1989, p. 161
  2. ↑ https://adlhart.at/ueber-uns
  3. ↑ Adolf Hahnl : Sacred Art in Austria - Crucifix / Archabbey St. Peter in Salzburg , article on austria-forum.org
  4. ↑ https://adlhart.at/ueber-uns
  5. ↑ letter document dated 19 February 1915 from the estate of Max Domenig