Jakob Adlhart the Elder Ä.
Jakob Adlhart (born November 16, 1871 in Achdorf , † December 26, 1956 in Hallein ) was a German sculptor, barrel painter , gilder and restorer.
Career
In 1898 he moved to Ortisei in Val Gardena, South Tyrol, where he ran his own carving workshop. One of his employees in Val Gardena, Alois Zwerger, had the opportunity to set up a workshop in the Cordon House in Hallein . In 1908, operations began in these “ workshops for Christian arts and crafts ”. From 1913 to 1915 Max Domenig worked in the workshops of Adlhart the Elder. Ä.
Adlhart was particularly concerned with the restoration of medieval wooden sculptures.
family
His son was the sculptor Jakob Adlhart the Elder. J. , who received his first training in his father's workshop in Ortisei and then completed his apprenticeship in Hallein in 1909, in 1920 his son Jakob took over his father's workshop. The grandson is the Austrian architect Jakob Adlhart .
literature
- Fritz Moosleitner: Hallein. Portrait of a small town. Hallein 1989, p. 160 ff
- Adlhart, Jakob the Elder Ä. . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 398.
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| SURNAME | Adlhart, Jakob the Elder Ä. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adlhart, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor, barrel painter, gilder and restorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Achdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1956 |
| Place of death | Hallein |