Johann Michael Albaneder

Johann Michael Albaneder (1797)
(Painter: Johann Georg Edlinger )

Johann Baptist Michael Albaneder , from around 1794 also Albani (born September 30, 1762 in Schwaz , Tyrol , † April 1824 ) was an Austrian sculptor , embosser and ceramist . From around 1810 he also devoted himself to wax painting .

Life

He was the eldest son of the master potter Johann Albaneder , whose family had been practicing this craft for several generations. Albaneder learned his father's trade and worked in Innsbruck , where he also practiced drawing . In 1781, at the age of 19, he traveled to Trento and Florence , where he learned modeling in clay , porcelain and wax . Since, however, he did not like the pottery, he tried in 1783 as a clerk at the customs . But after only 18 months he gave up this post again.

In the following years Albaneder devoted himself exclusively to art and created his portrait medallions in the English Wedgwood technique in the style of classic portrait fashion . He worked as a court boss for the most important courts and became known throughout Europe. He was Thurn und Taxisscher Hofbossier and was registered in Salzburg on April 20, 1791 as a princely Kemptischer . At that time he also worked for a certain time in the Marienberg Abbey .

Emperor Leopold II appointed him as a teacher at the Vienna Model Academy . From around 1794 Albaneder gave himself the stage name Albani .

In the years 1794 to 1797 he manufactured a. a. the porcelain portraits of the Eichstätter cathedral chapter , today in the Eichstätter cathedral treasury and diocesan museum.

After great success, he returned to his homeland due to the first Napoleonic wars . In 1802 he founded a majolica and earthenware factory in Schwaz with five workers , using the clay store above Maurach, a current district of Buch in Tyrol , discovered in 1801 by an English technician , as a raw material for his production, since their clay is used as a had proven particularly suitable. But four years later (1805) he had to sell his factory to Marin Rosa Countess von Wolkenstein-Rodenegg (1744–1808) due to lack of money .

From around 1810 Albaneder lived in Munich and also worked here in wax painting. In 1813 he also made a wax portrait of the Würzburg merchant Peter Bolzano .

Works

• The Högerbräu family [Leonhard and Klara] Seidl zu Munich , wax embossing in a glazed wooden frame, fecit in Munich 1811 on March 24th ( bildindex.de )
• Half-length portrait of the Munich businessman Johann Augustin Ruedorffer , 1807, wax sculpture, 8.2 × 7.1 in 21 × 18 cm
• Half-length portrait of Maria Anna Ruedorffer , wax sculpture
• Porcelain portraits of the Eichstätter cathedral chapter , 1794–1797
• Würzburg businessman Peter Bolzano (1794–1839) , 1813, wax picture
• Young girl in costume , miniature, H 3.7 cm by H 10.0 cm
• Half-length portrait of Maria Anna Riezler , sculpture installation
• Half-length portrait of Johann Martin Riezler (1741–1807) , sculpture installation
• Half-length portrait of Franz Xaver Riezler (1788–1854) , sculpture installation
• Boy with a book , wax portrait, 1810–1815
• Joseph Hauber and wife , 1794, profile reliefs in Nymphenburg biscuit porcelain
• Adrian von Riedl (1746–1809) and his wife Walburga, b. von Kurtz (1747–1807) , undated
• Archduke Carl , china clay, medallion relief, undated
• Napoleon , earthenware, medallion relief, undated

literature

• General artist lexicon . tape 2 : Alanson-Alvarez . KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-598-22742-6 , pp. 24 (reprint of the first edition Leipzig, Seemann, 1983–86).
• HS: Albani, Johann (actually Albaneder) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 177–178 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Peter Volk: Christ, Mary and Joseph as wax figures by Johann Albani. In: Bavarian Yearbook for Folklore . 2003, pp. 89-99.
• Wax portraits by Johann Albani. In: Weltkunst . Volume 65, Issue 22, 1995, p. 3232 ff.
• The foundation and the first years of operation of the majolica and earthenware factory under Johann Albaneder. In: Maria Luise Campei-Klapfer: The Schwaz majolica and stoneware factory 1802–1938. Verlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-7030-0203-8 , p. 37 ff. Bsz-bw.de (PDF).
• Werner Grundmann: Joseph Hauber and wife, wedding portraits in biscuit by Johann Albani 1794. In: Oberallgäuer narrator. Volume 81, 1981, p. 20.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian Yearbook for Folklore . Bayerische Landesstelle für Volkskunde (Ed.), Verlag Kastner, 2003, p. 96 (restricted view, books.google.de ).
2. ↑ The Sciliar . Volume 72, Verlag Vogelweider, 1998, p. 399 (restricted view, books.google.de ).
3. ↑ Salzburg Intelligence Journal. April 23, 1791, col. 256 ( books.google.de ).
4. ^ Rainer Loose : 900 years of Benedictine Abbey Marienberg 1096–1996 . Verlag Tappeiner, 1996, ISBN 88-7073-215-0 , p. 436 (restricted view, books.google.de ).
5. ^ Rainer Loose: 900 years of Benedictine Abbey Marienberg 1096–1996. Festschrift, Verlag Tappeiner, 1996, ISBN 88-7073-215-0 , p. 446 (restricted view, books.google.de ).
6. ↑ Information from the Diocese of Eichstätt
7. ↑ Richard Schober: Tyrol between the two world wars. Volume 1. Tiroler Landesarchiv, Universitätsverlag Wagner, 2005, ISBN 3-7030-0401-0 .
8. ↑ Hans-Peter Trenschel: The wax portrait of Würzburg businessman. In: Old Franconian pictures and coat of arms calendar. Volume 84, 1985, p. 13 f.