Johann Max Tendler
Johann Max Tendler (born August 23, 1811 in Eisenerz ; † April 14, 1870 in Leoben ) was an Austrian Biedermeier painter .
Family history and life
Johann Max Tendler came from a family of artists who showed artistic talent in various fields over five generations. Johann Max was born as the second son of the painter Johann Tendler II in Eisenerz. The father was the son of the artistically gifted carpenter Matthias Tendler (1757-1825). Johann Max's older brother Matthäus and younger brother Josef Tendler also worked as painters. Johann Max Tendler's son Johann Tendler III. became an artist.
Johann Max helped his father with carving and painting work at an early age. As the most talented of the family, he was sent to the Vienna Art Academy from 1829 to 1831 , where he studied with Josef von Führich , Thomas Ender , Leopold Kupelwieser , Joseph Redl and Karl Gsellhofer . In 1835 he moved to Leoben , bought a license from Franz Xaver Nager ("bourgeois Real-Mahler- and Golders-Gerechtsame"). and built up an existence as an academic painter.
On August 16, 1836, he married the woodworker's daughter Barbara (Babette) Schweiger. In the same year, on December 20th, he took the citizenship oath of the city of Leoben. In addition to their son Johann Tendler III. four daughters: Maria, Barbara, Aloisia and Johanna. The commercial success allowed him to purchase the house in Leoben 123 (today Timmersdorfergasse 6) in 1850, where he lived until his death. He died of cerebral palsy, only 59 years old.
Artistic career
Tendler saw himself as an artist and a craftsman. He made altarpieces, pictures of the stations of the cross, flag paintings, tombs, stained glass, decorative church paintings and company signs, and also worked as a restorer. His artistic activity unfolded mainly in Upper Styria, where he often worked with a Knittelfelder carpenter named Jakob Mayer, but also extended to the Marburg area and Vienna, where he provided designs for the glass painter Carl Geyling (1814–1880).
Tendler's iconographic repertoire ranged from sacred commissioned works and allegorical representations to illustrations from popular life or from the world of the miner and drawings and images of local landscapes. He received his first major commission in 1844 from the Leoben Economic Committee for depictions of some places in the Leoben district. Some of these watercolors are still preserved.
In 1847 he restored the baroque plague column (Trinity column) on the main square in Leoben.
The frescoes in the stairwell and on the stairwell dome of the Hacklhaus in Leoben, which he painted in 1851 , are regarded as one of Tendler's main works, if not his main work . The allegories represent the most important economic sectors in the region: ore mining, smelting, timber and alpine farming and hunting.
At times he was also occupied with another activity that was handed down in the Tendler family. Grandfather Matthias Tendler built mechanical dolls that mimicked the movements of people and animals. He traveled with his automat theater through the German-speaking countries and gave performances. The grandson did the same later.
Works (selection)
- Design of the neo-Gothic high altar of the late Gothic Waasenkirche in Leoben, 1845
- Restoration of the Florianialtar of St. Georg Church in Adriach (Frohnleiten), around 1850
- Staircase frescoes of the Hacklhaus, 1851
- Five frescoes and two panel paintings after ballads by Friedrich Schiller ( tempera ) at the inn in Neudörfl (Styria), after 1851
- Grisailles in the Redemptorist Church in Leoben , 1858
- Altarpieces of the Liebfrauenkirche in Eisenerz and the parish church Trofaiach (Florianialtar)
Around 700 watercolors and drawings are still preserved from his artistic estate. You are in the Museum of the City of Leoben (MuseumsCenter). Tendler's daughter Johanna donated parts of the automatic puppet theater that had been preserved to the museum.
memory
Since his grave can no longer be found, the Upper Styrian Cultural Association dedicated a commemorative plaque to him at the Jakobifriedhof in Leoben in 1959. An inscription on his house also reminds of him, the Max-Tendler-Gasse is named after him.
Individual evidence
- ^ Margarete Payer: Johann Max Tendler. Literary and cultural history handbook of Styria in the 19th century online, June 2011, accessed on April 26, 2018 .
literature
- Karin Talaber: Zuagroast and Heimisch g'worn - the Tendler family. In: Stadtgemeinde Eisenerz (Hrsg.): Eisenerz, a local history reading book. 2008, p. 281 ff.
- Karin Talaber: The work of the Upper Styrian artist family Tendler in the Eisenerz region - Development of an exhibition concept for the Eisenerz City Museum. University of Graz, diploma thesis 2009, pp. 22–38.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tendler, Johann Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iron ore |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1870 |
| Place of death | Leoben |