Ignaz Gabloner

Ignaz Gabloner (born November 29, 1887 in Bozen ; † July 14, 1964 ibid.) Was a South Tyrolean sculptor .

Frog fountain in Bolzano

Life

After the school years at the local arts and crafts school and an artistic training in Germany , Gabloner devoted himself to sculpture in his hometown and took on his first public contracts. In the years of fascism he regularly took part in the regime-related art biennials in Bolzano. In 1940 he became - like his artist colleague Hans Piffrader - a member of the Fascist Party of Italy . After the end of the Second World War he joined the newly founded South Tyrolean Artists Association .

Works (selection)

• Franziskusbrunnen at the Talferbrücke , around 1930, Bozen
• Frog fountain , 1930, Bolzano station park
• Sculptures for the Oberau cemetery chapel in Bozen, around 1932
• Benito Mussolini , 1933, marble bust, Bolzano City Museum
• St Mark's Lion and Capitoline Wolf , 1938, gilded wooden sculptures, Bolzano Victory Square
• Trinity , 1939/40, stone relief on the Christ the King Church in Bozen

literature

• Gabloner, Ignaz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 181-182 .
• Luigi Salvagnini, Dankmar Trier: Gabloner, Ignaz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 46, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22786-8 , p. 536.
• Mathias Frei, Walburga Kössler: Ignaz Gabloner 1887–1964. Sculptor and draftsman (= monographs of South Tyrolean artists 36), ed. from the South Tyrolean Artists Association and the municipality of Appiano on the Wine Route. Athesia, Bozen 2014, ISBN 978-88-6839-026-6 .
• Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 46-49, 55, 60-61 .