Johann Baptist Oberkofler

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Johann Baptist Oberkofler (born March 24, 1895 in St. Johann ; † January 2, 1969 in Bruneck ) was a priest and a South Tyrolean painter , known for numerous religious paintings and frescoes . He was one of the younger brothers of the poet Joseph Georg Oberkofler .

Life

Oberkofler grew up in a world that was shaped by rural and Catholic influences. His father was a farmer and pastor in St. Johann im Ahrntal . He spent his childhood on the so-called Gföllberg in St. Johann. From 1909 he was the third of his siblings to go to the Vinzentinum in Brixen . During the First World War he had to serve as a rifleman, then as a kaiser rifle, and in 1916 he saw the Col di Lana blown up . After the war he began studying theology in Innsbruck and continued it in Brixen. He was ordained a priest on December 17, 1921.

He received his artistic training from 1924 under Hermann Groeber and Franz Klemmer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He finished his studies in 1926 with an Absolutorium . His artistic views come from the late Romantics, who gathered around the Munich magazine Christliche Kunst and the artists Martin von Feuerstein , Gebhard Fugel and Peter Janssen .

From 1928 he lived as a cathedral deficit in Brixen and worked from there in the service of the cathedral church and religious painting. He painted in oil, tempera, watercolor and pastel, wrote many frescoes in churches and public buildings as well as pen and charcoal drawings. In old age, the escalating diabetes forced amputation of both legs; He died a few days after the operation in the Bruneck hospital. There is a museum memorial in the house where the Oberkofler brothers were born.

Alois Thaler characterized him as follows: “Oberkofler was too peasant for bourgeois society, too clerical for liberals, too much“ panel painter ”for fellow artists, too spiritual for patriots, too many commissioned artists for those calling for freedom in art, and too realistic for expressionists The abstract too concrete and the modern too traditional. Few have properly recognized and recognized Oberkofler in his artistry, in his expressiveness, in the genius of the design of timeless themes, in his enormous productivity. "

The former South Tyrolean state curator Karl Wolfsgruber wrote about Oberkofler: “[There are] ... countless pictures of Oberkofler with religious and scenic content as room and room decorations. In accordance with his temperament, he painted with quick brushwork; Drawing skills and compositional security allowed him to do this. He followed the modern currents of painting with keen attention, but did not follow them, because he wanted to create understandable motifs for the simple popular feeling ... "

Works (selection)

  • Frescoes on the cemetery arcades in St. Johann in Ahrntal
  • Cemetery painting at the Sexten cemetery
  • Fresco work for the cemetery chapel in Ober Gaimberg / East Tyrol - 1956
  • Fresco in the church of Montan - 1943
  • Fresco in the nave of the parish church of Mals - 1938
  • Large glass windows in the parish church of St. Jakob in Defereggen - 1929/30; Frescoes in the presbytery and dome there - 1934/35
  • Fresco medallion in the parish church of Sterzing
  • Triumphal arch fresco in the parish church of Schenna - 1930
  • Image of the Madonna in the mountain church on the Gögealm above Weißenbach
  • Portrait painting of Saint Joseph Freinademetz
  • two paintings in the presbytery of the Church of St. Jakob in Ahrntal
  • Portrait painting of the South Tyrolean art historian Prof. Heinrich Waschgler (in the Vinzentinum)
  • Most of the several thousand oil paintings are privately owned.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Marienlob and Gloriasang. Texts by Joseph Georg Oberkofler, pictures by Johann Baptist Oberkofler. Innsbruck: Tyrolia-Verlag 1959.
  • Elmar Oberkofler: Johann Baptist Oberkofler. Bolzano: Athesia Publishing House 1995, ISBN 88-7014-862-9 .
  • Ahrntal community (ed.): Johann Baptist Oberkofler: the last great church painter in South Tyrol. Bolzano: Athesia 2019. ISBN 978-88-6839-449-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Web Museum Guide , consulted January 5, 2010
  2. ↑ Alois Thaler in: Elmar Oberkofer (Ed.): Johann Baptist Oberkofler . Verlag Athesia , 1995, p. 15.
  3. ^ Karl Wolfsgruber in: Elmar Oberkofer (Ed.): Johann Baptist Oberkofler . Verlag Athesia, 1995, p. 5.
  4. ↑ suedtirol-it.com , queried January 5, 2010
  5. ↑ kugelpanorama.at  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 464 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kugelpanorama.at  
  6. ↑ gemeinde.schenna.bz.it (PDF; 4.6 MB), queried January 5, 2010
  7. ↑ suedtirol-tourismus.net ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , queried January 5, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.suedtirol-tourismus.net
  8. ↑ pustertal.org , queried January 5, 2010
  9. ↑ Ekkart Sauser:  WASCHGLER, Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 1506-1507.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  10. ↑ http://www.hofburg.it/veranstaltung/tiroler-weihnacht/ queried February 5, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Oberkofler, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Tyrolean painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johann
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1969
Place of death Brunico