Hiltigund Schreiber

Hiltigund Schreiber (born March 31, 1939 in Vienna ) is an Austrian art historian , restorer and master nativity scene builder.

Life

Hiltigund Schreiber (birth name Stipek ) first studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and finished her studies in agriculture as a graduate engineer with very good success. She then worked as a university assistant for microbiology and biochemistry at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Vienna . In 1966 she gave up her profession and dealt intensively with restoration , folklore and art history . In 1968 she completed her dissertation and received her doctorate in 1974 with distinction in the field of crop production .

In 1975 she completed her training in restoration at the Vienna Art School and Artistic Adult Education Center . From 1994 to 2009 Schreiber was the diocesan curator of the Archdiocese of Vienna and headed the department for church art and monument preservation . She also completed an apprenticeship as a crib builder.

She was married to Gerhard Schreiber , whose extensive crib collection she has managed since his death.

1984: Awarded the Bronze Order of Stephen by the Archdiocese of Vienna
1988: Appointment as " Consultant of the Upper Austrian state government for popular education and homeland care"
1992: Award of the papal order " Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice "
1992: Awarded the " Medal for Services to Monument Protection " from the Republic of Austria
1992: Appointment as “nativity builder” by the Association of Crib Friends of Austria

2009: Lower Austrian Security Merit Award from Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien and Niederösterreichische Versicherung

2010: Award of the plaque of honor for special merits of the "Society of Friends and Patrons of the Lower Austria Gendarmerie"

“Folk painting on wood. Paste and Casein Techniques ”together with Rudolf Moser, Landesverlag Oberösterreich, ISBN 3-85214-228-8
“Painted Peasant Furniture” exhibition catalog, Stift Reichersberg 1987
"Oriental Nativity" exhibition catalog, Stift Reichersberg 1988
"Tiroler Krippen" exhibition catalog, Stift Reichersberg 1991
"The diversity in the crib" exhibition catalog parish Mariabrunn (Vienna) 1992
“Roman Catholic Churches in the Schmidatal”, article in “The Schmida - a region introduces itself ” by Friedrich Damköhler and Josef Stefan, 1st edition, ISBN 978-3-200-02028-3 , p. 82/83