Jakob Bradl

Memorial plaque in Munich-Neuhausen , Bothmerstrasse

Jakob Bradl the Younger (born December 14, 1864 in Munich , † September 14, 1919 in Ettal ) was a sculptor of the "southern German historicism ".

Life

Bradl learned in the Munich wood carver and sculpture workshop of his father Jakob Bradl the Elder († 1888) on Stiglmaierplatz and with Syrius Eberle at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts . He mainly worked for church clients, also as a painter and designer of church windows, but also created puppet figures for Paul Brann's art theater . He made figural stucco reliefs and designed the Christmas crib in the Stollwerck mausoleum in Hohenfried. In 1906 he was appointed royal professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From 1914 to 1918 he directed the wood carving school in Oberammergau . His students include Max Heilmaier and Georg Wrba .

Bradl died of a stroke in 1919 . His grave is in the Westfriedhof in Munich-Moosach .

A portrait of Bradl painted by Leo Samberger is now in the possession of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung .

Works

Wittelsbacher Fountain on Residenzplatz in Passau

• 1901: Winthir-Brunnen, Munich ( Rotkreuzplatz ), destroyed in World War II
• 1902: Parish Church St. Nikolaus , Murnau am Staffelsee (added 6 missing angels and putti)
• 1902: Redesign of the church in Oberhausen / Huglfing
• 1902: addition of two angels, Salvator altar, Heiligenstadt near Gangkofen
• 1903: Mindelheim town hall : model for the Frundsberg monument (executed by J. Braun)
• 1904: Epitaph in memory of Empress Elisabeth, Passau
• 1906: Wittelsbacher Fountain, Passau
• 1907: Redesign of the parish church in Aichach together with Richard Berndl and others
• 1907: Figural stucco reliefs in the choir of the Church of the Annunciation (Mindelheim)
• 1909: Sacred Heart Figure in the St. Viktor baptistery (Hochkirchen)
• 1910/11: Restoration of the St. Magnus Church, Huglfing
• 1912: Siegfried Column in Kulmbach
• 1918/19: Restoration of the church in Hofheim
• Upper parish church Bamberg : west gable, Madonna, cemetery of honor, cross group, mourners
• Mount of Olives in Nuremberg- Gostenhof
• St. Ulrich, Dillingen an der Donau : Monument to Bishop Ulrich von Augsburg
• St. Martin, Lauingen : glass painting
• Wittelsbacherbrunnen (Marienbrunnen) in Passau
• Würzburg: Figures of bishops on the Old Main Bridge
• Christmas crib in the Stollwerck mausoleum

literature

• Brigitta A. Wittwer: Jakob Bradl and the Salvator Altar in Heiligenstadt near Gangkofen . In: The mill wheel. Contributions to the history of the Innau and Isengau , Volume XX, born in 1988.

Web links

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