Heinrich Natter

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Heinrich Natter

Heinrich Natter (born March 16, 1844 in Graun im Vinschgau , South Tyrol , † April 13, 1892 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Zwingli monument in Zurich
Walther monument in Bolzano
Zang crypt in Vienna's central cemetery

After dropping out of the Realgymnasium in Innsbruck, Natter did an apprenticeship as a sculptor with Franz Xaver Pendl in Merano from 1858 to 1863 . He then attended the Polytechnic School in Augsburg and studied from 1864 to 1867 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Max von Widnmann . After an extensive trip to Italy with stays in Rome and Florence , he returned to Munich in 1868, where we had our first successes with portrait busts and in 1872 received our first memorial commission (a stele for Robert Schumann in Leipzig). Since 1875 he has been working on a monument to Walther von der Vogelweide for Bozen. In 1876 he moved to Vienna, where he initially found it difficult to gain a foothold despite several orders. In Vienna he socialized with liberal journalists and writers, especially Ludwig Speidel , but also with conservative poets such as Richard von Kralik . In the last years of his life he was also active as a writer.

Heinrich Natter was married to Ottilie Hirschl, who brought her step-daughter Selma (* 1871) into the marriage. Their son Siegfried was born in 1876.

On April 16, 1892, the body of the deceased was willingly transferred from the Mourning House, Vienna II. , Schüttelstrasse 3, to Zurich for cremation and buried there.

Natter often worked with the architect Otto Hieser . He created monuments in Leipzig , Zurich , Bolzano and Vienna , among others , which belong to the monument art of that time. His works show powerful monumentality and the greatest possible closeness to nature without romantic idealization. Influenced by the Wagner circle around Heinrich Porges in Munich, themes from Nordic mythology play a central role in his work. The statue of the reformer Zwingli in Zurich, which he himself regarded as his artistic high point, made him a target for Catholic-conservative art criticism in his home country. The award of the contract to Natter for the Andreas Hofer monument on the Bergisel also caused controversy.

Honors

Works

Sculpture Siegfried in the Drehsaer Switzerland

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Natter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinrich Natter † .. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , April 14, 1892, p. 4, center left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn
  2. ^ Parte Heinrich Natter .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, April 14, 1892, p. 14, top left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  3. ^ Heinrich Natter .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, April 14, 1892, p. 4, column 2 middle. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  4. ^ E. Egg: Natter Heinrich .
  5. ↑ An artist dispute . In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , April 28, 1888, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn
  6. ↑ The unveiling of the Haydn monument. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, May 31, 1887, p. 2, top left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  7. ^ Samuel Zurlinden: Hundred Years. Pictures from the history of the city of Zurich from 1814–1914. 2 volumes. Report House, Zurich 1914/1915, Volume 2, p. 174
  8. ↑ Oswald Egger , Hermann Gummerer (ed.): Walther, poet and monument. edition per procura, Lana 1990, ISBN 3-901118-00-4 .
  9. ↑ Ph. A – n .:  Gufidaun .. In:  Dillinger's illustrated Reise-Zeitung , No. 9 5th year, March 20, 1894, p. 01 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dil
personal data
SURNAME Natter, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Graun in Vinschgau
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1892
Place of death Vienna