Hubert Zotz

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Hubert Zotz (born December 30, 1875 in Nesselwängle in Tyrol ; † July 26, 1960 ) was an Austrian master of plastering who specialized in neo-baroque altars and interior design in the rococo style .

activities

Hubert Zotz comes from the Tyrolean family of artists and scholars, the Zotz family , who produced numerous masters of stucco art such as Lorenz Zotz the Elder , Lorenz Zotz the Younger and Ämilian Zotz . Coming from Tyrol, Hubert Zotz settled in Zug in Switzerland , where he ran his studio with the plasterer Alois Griessl as part of the “Zotz und Griessl” company and mainly worked in Switzerland.

Hubert Zotz and Alois Griessl's atelier worked with the church architect Adolf Gaudy . Zotz and Gaudy shared a retrospective understanding of architecture in that they also wanted to use tried and tested forms of construction and design for new buildings in the sense of historicism and largely forego innovations.

Important works

Stucco work in Einsiedeln Abbey

From 1910 to 1911 the stucco ornaments were created in the east field of the octagon of the church of Einsiedeln Abbey .

From 1926 to 1928 Hubert Zotz took on the interior design of the neo-baroque pilgrimage church of the Melchtal monastery , where his ornaments based on alpine flora are famous.

literature

  • Henry Russell Hitchcock: Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany. London 1968.
  • The history lover: Announcements of the historical association of the five places Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden whether and not the forest and Zug. Volume 155, 2002, pp. 36-65.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schweizerische Bauzeitung: weekly for architecture, engineering, machine technology. Volume 69, 1951, p. 262.
  2. ^ Bernhard Anders: The church architect Adolf Gaudy (1872-1956). ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.at
  3. ↑ Einsiedeln Monastery: Restoration measures since the 19th century.
personal data
SURNAME Zotz, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian plasterer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Nesselwängle
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1960