Jacob Schroth

Papagenotor at the Theater an der Wien

Jacob Schroth's Papageno group

Jacob Schroth (also Jakob, born March 20, 1773 in Vienna ; † February 22, 1831 there ) was an Austrian sculptor .

life and work

Jacob Schroth was the son of the sculptor Johann Friedrich Schroth (1736-1803) and brother of the sculptor Josef Ignaz Schroth (1764-1797). He began his training as a sculptor at the age of thirteen and was enrolled as a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1786 .

Schroth provided the furnishings for the prelate's hall, the design of the library portal and work on the main facade (left of the Schottenkirche ) in the Schottenstift in Vienna . Schroth also designed the coat of arms above the transverse wing of the convent building in the Schottenstift.

The most famous sculpture by Jacob Schroth today is a group of figures that was created in 1801 on behalf of Emanuel Schikaneder . It shows him in his most popular role, Papageno from Mozart's Magic Flute , surrounded by three little Papagenos, as they appear only in the sequel to The Magic Flute, Part Two . This group of figures adorns the original main portal of the Theater an der Wien in Millöckergasse Wien-Mariahilf , on the corner of Papagenogasse.

Finally, in 1821 Schroth was the creator of a granite tomb with embossed bronze sculptures for the Josef Polimberger family in the Baja cemetery in Hungary. For Joseph Latinovics von Borsód he created a funerary monument in the parish church of Madaras in 1823 .

In 1821/22 he worked on the design of Weilburg Palace in Baden near Vienna (destroyed in 1945).

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Schroth, Jacob . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, p. 18 ( digitized version ).
KL: Schroth, Jakob . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 301 .
Christine Gruber: Schroth, Eugen. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 256.
Márk Szerdahelyi: The Viennese sculptor dynasty Schroth. A genealogical overview . In: Adler. Journal for Genealogy and Heraldry 24, 2007/08, pp. 82–84.

Web links

Jakob Schroth in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Remarks

^ Anton Bauer: 150 years of Theater an der Wien . Amalthea-Verlag, Zurich 1952, p.?; Tadeusz Krzeszowiak: Theater an der Wien. Its technology and history 1801–2001 . Böhlau, Vienna 2002, p. 33. 40 Fig. 24.
^ Franz Carl Weidmann : Funerary monuments in Hungary . In: Archive for History, Statistics, Literature and Art 14, 1823, pp. 199–200; Franz Tschischka : Art and antiquity in the Austrian imperial state . Vienna 1836, p. 283 ( digitized version ).
^ Franz Carl Weidmann: Funerary monuments in Hungary . In: Archive for History, Statistics, Literature and Art 14, 1823, p. 200; Franz Tschischka: Art and antiquity in the Austrian imperial state . Vienna 1836, p. 283.

personal data
SURNAME	Schroth, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schroth, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 1831
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Anton Bauer: 150 years of Theater an der Wien . Amalthea-Verlag, Zurich 1952, p.?; Tadeusz Krzeszowiak: Theater an der Wien. Its technology and history 1801–2001 . Böhlau, Vienna 2002, p. 33. 40 Fig. 24.

[2] Franz Carl Weidmann : Funerary monuments in Hungary . In: Archive for History, Statistics, Literature and Art 14, 1823, pp. 199–200; Franz Tschischka : Art and antiquity in the Austrian imperial state . Vienna 1836, p. 283 ( digitized version ).

[3] Franz Carl Weidmann: Funerary monuments in Hungary . In: Archive for History, Statistics, Literature and Art 14, 1823, p. 200; Franz Tschischka: Art and antiquity in the Austrian imperial state . Vienna 1836, p. 283.