Ignaz Falbesoner

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Ignaz Falbesoner (born September 22, 1808 in Nassereith , † July 5, 1881 there ) was an Austrian sculptor , nativity scene carver and sacristan .

The Tschatscha Cross in Kappl in the Paznaun Valley by Ignaz Falbesoner (1843)

Life

Ignaz Falbesoner was the first son of Josef Alois Falbesoner and his second wife Notburga Bader from Lermoos , who had married on November 23, 1807. We hardly know anything about the young sculptor's apprenticeship. He must have learned the craft of carving from his father. Whether he went to Rome at the age of 18 and also worked there with “white and colored marble” cannot be proven. Ignaz Falbesoner married the Wegmacher daughter Maria Kreszenz Rappold on May 28, 1838 in Nassereith. From this marriage there were six children.

At the latest after the death of his father in 1848 Ignaz Falbesoner also took over the office of sacristan. During his creative time he could hardly accumulate wealth. Ignaz Falbesoner apparently also trained stonemasons in his workshop . His students reported that he was a tall, lean man with a long nose. He also worked as a cattle and people doctor. Ignaz Falbesoner, the last great representative of the sculptor and sacristan dynasty, died on July 5, 1881. Far fewer works are known than those of his grandfather Martin Falbesoner (172? –1815) and his father Josef Alois Falbesoner (1767–1848). Many of his nativity scenes were destroyed in the village fires of 1893 and 1923 in Nassereith.

Works (selection)

Right thief on Calvary in Ladis by Ignaz Falbesoner (1840).
  • Dormitz - Cemetery: Crucifixion Group (1850/60)
  • Ehrwald - parish church: former high altar (1860/70)
  • Kappl in the Paznauntal: Arma-Christi-Kreuz, so-called "Tschatscha-Kreuz" (1843)
  • Ladis - Kalvarienberg: Christ and 2 thieves
  • Nassereith: numerous house cribs, crucifixes and figures (many destroyed in the village fires)
  • Nassereith - parish church: collaboration on the high altar, figures, holy grave (around 1850)

literature

  • Norbert Mantl: The Falbesoner from Nassereith - Ignaz Falbesoner and the other important Falbesoner . In: Tiroler Heimatblätter 32, 1957, issue 1–3, pp. 20–25.
  • Gert Ammann: The Tyrolean Oberland. The districts of Imst, Landeck and Reutte - his works of art, historical forms of life and settlement (= Austrian art monograph IX), Salzburg 1978.
  • Frischhut, Adalbert: Heimatbuch Nassereith. Nassereith 1987.
  • Robert Klien / Günther Holzknecht: The chapels and the calvary. In: Robert Klien: Ladis village book. Ladis 1998, pp. 301-303.
  • Ischgl Tourism Association (publisher): Paznaun Magazine Summer 2013, Ischgl 2013.
  • Klaus Wankmiller: Ignaz Falbesoner (1808–1881). The last representative of the sculpting dynasty from Nassereith. In: Extra Verren - Yearbook of the Museum Association of the Reutte District 12, 2017, pp. 109-134.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mantl (1957), pp. 20-25.
  2. ↑ The children are listed in Wankmiller (2017), p. 111.
personal data
SURNAME Falbesoner, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor, nativity scene carver and sacristan
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Nassereith
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1881
Place of death Nassereith