Heinrich Bacher

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Heinrich Bacher (born January 1, 1897 in Gais (South Tyrol) , Italy ; † August 21, 1972 ibid.) Was an Italian sculptor .

life and work

Heinrich Bacher was the grandson of the nativity scene carver Adam Bacher and the son of the wood sculptor Alois Bacher (1866–1921), who is considered an important neo-Gothic artist in his craft and in addition to works, for example, in St. Katharinenberg (statues on the side altar of the Expositur Church of St. Catherine ), Mühlwald (cemetery shrine with crucifixion group in the cemetery of the parish church of St. Gertrude), Montan (statues on the high altar of the parish church of St. Bartholomew) and Breslau (crucifix in the cathedral) also created a portrait of Josef Beikircher and the furnishings of Hearst Castle was involved.

Heinrich Bacher first learned, like his brother Franz, who was born in 1903, in his father's workshop, which at times employed up to 15 people. During the First World War he served in the 1st Kaiserjäger Regiment . After his father's death and his father's workshop closed, Bacher attended the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich ( Joseph Wackerle's sculpture class ) and then studied with Balthasar Schmitt at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts . However, due to financial difficulties, he was unable to complete his academic studies. He met his future wife in Munich and moved with her back to Gais at the end of the 1920s, where he lived as a freelance sculptor and farmer until his death.

During the war, Bacher met the poet Ezra Pound , and later created a cemetery plaque for Isabel Weston Pound, mother Pounds, who died in Gais in 1948, and a wooden portrait relief Pounds. It occurs in Pounds 'Cantos'.

Bacher was a member of the Innsbruck Secession.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait Ezra Pound
  • The revolt
  • Self-portrait on the Lambretta
  • dancer
  • War invalids
  • Pièta in the Gais war memorial

literature

  • Siegfried de Rachewiltz : Memories of Heinrich Bacher . In: The window. Tyrolean culture magazine . H. 23, Innsbruck, Winter 1978, pp. 2292-2304.
  • Lothar von Sternbach: Heinrich Bacher in memory . In: Dolomites , August 1972.
  • Heinz Zelger: Heinz Bacher . In: The traveling Skolast . Bozen 1966, no. 11, pp. 7-8.
  • Josef Ringler: Tyrolean cribs of our time . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1966, p. 22.
  • H. u. S. Hinterhuber: Heinz Bacher . In: The Sciliar . 52, I, 1958, p. 28.
  • Vollmer.

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swell

  1. ↑ de Rachewiltz 1978, p. 2292, especially after: Josef Weingartner: Die Kunstdenkmäler Südtirols , Vol. IV P. 247, Vol. I P. 349, Vol. II, P. 351.
personal data
SURNAME Bacher, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Gais (Tyrol) , Italy
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1972
Place of death Gais (Tyrol) , Italy