Johann Worath

Johann Worath (born November 1, 1609 in Taufers , South Tyrol , † February 5, 1680 in Schlägl ) was an Austrian wood sculptor and altar carver of the Baroque period.

Life

Johann Worath was the third son of the sculptor Matthäus Barat the Elder. Ä. (proven in Taufers between 1604 and 1622) and his wife Christine, b. Prästmann. Between 1626 and 1629 he was a sculptor's apprentice to Adam Baldauf in Brixen , with whom he moved to Vienna in 1629 . He was unable to complete his training there, however, as Baldauf died unexpectedly. In a document dated October 19, 1631, Worath confirmed three Brixen citizens, the painters Hans Wazin and Jeremias Rumpler and the glazier Hans Atteler, that he had completed his regular apprenticeship.

Nothing else is known from Worath's life about the period from 1631 to 1642. Presumably he worked as an employed person in other workshops. Possibly also in the Salzburg workshop of Hans Pernegger, who was busy designing the portal for Schlägl Abbey in 1638 .

Since 1642 he was resident in Markt Aigen in the Mühlkreis and married Eva Pfleger there on June 12, 1644 († November 5, 1690 in Aigen), daughter of the Aigen merchant and councilor Daniel Pfleger senior. On September 18, 1651, he received citizenship and bought a house near the hospital.

After he was unable to obtain legal rights , he worked as a citizen of this community - freed from guild constraints - above all for the Schlägl monastery and its branch churches as well as the nobility in the area. On the one hand, Worath enjoyed the protection of the monastery, but on the other hand was so dependent on him and his abbot Martin Greysing that he z. B. had to apply for permission to take on an apprentice or to accept other assignments. His attempts, supported by Abbot Greysing, to get orders in Linz as well, failed because of rejection by the mayor and the city council. In South Bohemia, where he u. a. also worked for the art-loving imperial prince Johann Christian von Eggenberg , Duke of Krumau (1641–1710), in Český Krumlov , he is also known under the name Jan Worath .

After 1670 there are no more sources of any artistic work by Worath. As a citizen of the inner council of the municipality of Aigen, he took over the administration of the hospital office in 1670, which he had to give up in 1677 for health reasons. Financial difficulties caused him to take out a loan of 350 guilders from the Martinspital's assets in 1678, which he could not repay during his lifetime. Abbot Andreas Schmidt waived the repayment to the heirs after Worath's death, but Eva Worath had to sell the house in 1684 to the Aigen butcher Johann Wöß for 800 guilders and only kept a right of residence during her lifetime. In 1694 Worath's son-in-law, the painter Michael Nothelfer, was able to buy back the house for the family for 1000 guilders.

As a pious man, Johann Worath had been a member of the Rosary Brotherhood of the Maria Anger Church since 1655 and was also a member of the Frauenzeche on the Anger since 1662.

Johann and Eva Worath had thirteen children, among them:

• Johann Laurenz Worath (* 1645 in Aigen - † July 11, 1710 in Schlägl), was a secular priest, a. a. 1675 to 1676 cooperator in Frankenmarkt and 1694 to 1704 pastor in Peterskirchen .
• Sophia (born May 14, 1648 in Aigen - † November 30, 1713 ibid) married the Aigen painter Michael Nothelfer in 1678
• Philipp Jakob Worath (born May 1, 1661 in Aigen - † February 23, 1721 in Schlägl), who was abbot of Schlägl Monastery from 1701 to 1721 under his religious name Siard Worath .
• Johann Anton Worath (born January 6, 1663 in Aigen - † March 30, 1684 there) was a sculptor like his father and was supposed to continue the workshop, but fell victim to a raging epidemic in Aigen.
• Mathias Worath (born August 3, 1666 in Aigen -) studied in Prague like his brother Philipp Jakob and became a chaplain in the Schlägl monastery under the religious name Dominik. After his profession in 1678, he was ordained a priest in 1683.
• Stephan Worath (born August 2, 16 ?? in Aigen - † August 3, 1679 in Vienna) was also a sculptor and died of the plague at a young age .

His son, Abbot Siard, had a grave slab made of red Adnet marble built for his parents , which is located in the parish church of Aigen on the north wall of the nave and contains the following inscription:

NIHIL Frustra
NOBILI & consulari VIRO
A pietate IN DEUM, Prudentia, SCIENTIA GEOGRAPHICA
ARTE Statuaria & Architectonica plurimum CELEBRI
DOMINO Ioanni BARAD
EIUSQUE PIENTISSIMÆ Coniugi
Dominae Evæ Natae NURSE
AMANTISSIMIS SUIS PARENTIBUS
NEC NON
GERMANIS fratribus & SORORIBUS SUIS
HIC IN DOMINO QUIESCENTIBUS
PIAM IN MEMORIAM HOC MARMORE PARENTAT
ET REQUIEM PRECATUR SEMPITERNAM
SIARDUS ABBAS PLAGENSIS
MD CC XVI. ^Note

^Note(Translation: Nothing in vain! To the noble man and councilor, Johann Worath, who was well-known because of his piety to God, the wisdom of geographical science, sculpture and architecture, and his extremely pious wife Eva, his dearly beloved parents and also his brothers and sisters who rest here in God, sets this stone in pious memory and asks for their eternal rest Siard Abbot von Schlägl 1716 )

Worath's artistic estate, mainly consisting of draft drawings for his works, is located in Schlägl Abbey. These are often more original than the actual altar structures.

The Worathweg in Linz- Bachlberg and the Johann-Worath-Weg in Aigen-Schlägl have been named after him since 1958 .

Works

Compilation according to Isfried Hermann Pichler: Catalog of the exhibited works with specification of the catalog numbers, unless otherwise stated.

Many of his works were painted by the Augsburg painter David Stangl (1599–1671), who - like Worath - was closely associated with Schlägl Abbey.

With a known date of origin:

• Passion Cross (eastern side of the nave in the parish church of St. Nikolaus in Haslach an der Mühl ), 1640, attributed to Worath
• Crucifixion group (southern outer wall of the parish church of St. Othmar in Kirchberg above the Danube ), around 1640/50
• Calvary with the life-size figures: Christ and the thieves on the crosses , St. John , Maria and Maria Magdalena (Calvary Chapel on the Schwalleck in Grein ), around 1640/50
• High altar ( pilgrimage church St. Wolfgang am Stein in Aigen-Schlägl ), 1642–1644, as well as for the same church
  St. Wolfgang on the fron arch
  pilaster figures St. John the Evangelist , St. John the Baptist , St. Florian , St. Vitus and
  Anna- Altar (in the attached chapel), 1640–1644, with the figures
  Maria Magdalena 1644, 94 cm, linden tree, framed (Cat. No. 6) and
  Martha von Bethanien 1644, 94 cm, linden tree, framed (Cat. No. 7 )
• Pietà (niche in the St. Vitus Chapel in the Schlägl collegiate church ; originally in the niche in front of the entrance to the collegiate church's music choir,moved to its current locationby Abbot Dominik Lebschy in 1853), 1644, 114 cm, linden tree, painted (cat. No. 2)
• Putti (high altar and St. Anna altar of the pilgrimage church St. Wolfgang am Stein), around 1644 (cat. No. 18)
• High altar (branch church St. Martin, former hospital church; today the funeral hall, Aigen), 1644
• Angel (tabernacle of the high altar of the pilgrimage church St. Wolfgang am Stein), after 1645, 35 cm, linden tree, painted (cat.no.19)
• Pulpit (Stiftskirche Schlägl), 1646/47, together with the carpenter Sixt Berer
• St. Augustine (high altar of the Schlägl collegiate church), 1646, 250 cm, linden tree, painted (cat.no.13)
• St. Norbert (high altar of the collegiate church Schlägl), 1646, 250 cm, linden tree, painted (cat.no.14)
• English greeting (deposit of Schlägl Abbey), 1647, Maria 210 cm and Archangel Gabriel 160 cm, linden tree (cat. No. 5)
• Martin's group : St. Martin and beggars (side wall of the subsidiary church St. Martin in Aigen), late 1640s, Martin 150 cm; Beggar 80 cm and base: 40 cm; Linden tree, painted (Cat. No. 10) D8
• Elisabeth of Thuringia (altar of the subsidiary church of St. Martin in Aigen), late 1640s, 120 cm; Linden tree, painted (Cat.No. 11)
• Clare of Assisi (altar of the subsidiary church of St. Martin in Aigen), late 1640s, 120 cm; Linden tree, painted (Cat.No. 12)
• Madonna and Child (Chapter Hall Madonna) (Chapter Hall of Schlägl Abbey), 1650, 165 cm on the base (moon and cloud) 20 cm, linden tree, painted (cat. No. 3)
• Crucifixion group ( Kalvarienbergkapelle near Aigen ), around 1650
• St. Vitus , St. Barbara , St. Josef and Putti (side altars in the Ulrichsberg parish church ), 1650/51, attributed to Worath
• Crucifix (southern outer wall of the Rohrbach parish church in Rohrbach-Berg), after 1650; Attributed to Worath
• High altar ( Rosenthal in the Bohemian Forest (Rožmitál na Šumavě) ), 1651
• High altar (church in the Minorite Monastery Krumau ), after 1651. The 19th century. added figures of Anthony of Padua and Johannes Kapistran are not from Worath.
• Crucifixion group and in the niches the figures of St. Florian , Erasmus , Paulus and Johannes (pilgrimage church St. Wolfgang am Stein), around 1651/52
• The miraculous image of the Madonna and Child ( pilgrimage church Maria Trost, Rohrbach-Berg ), 1656
• High altar (St. Bartholomew's Church in Friedberg an der Moldau (Frymburk nad Vltavou) ), 1657
• High altar (Parish Church of St. Bartholomew Friedberg (Frymburk nad Vltavou) ), 1657
• High altar (St. Veit Church, Oberhaid near Prachatitz), 1658, black-stained cherry wood (originally created for the Krumau Castle Chapel ; given to the church as a gift by Prince Joseph Adam Schwarzenberg in 1751 )
• Johannes-Nepomuk-Altar (church in the Minorite Monastery Krumau ), 1660. Originally created as an altar in honor of the wounds of Christ, today's figure of the title saint Johannes Nepomuk does not come from Worath.
• Anna Selbdritt I (St. Vitus Chapel in the Schlägl Collegiate Church), 1664, 110 cm, hardwood, painted (cat. No. 8)
• St. Auratianus (Jihočeska Muzeum (South Bohemian Museum), Budweis ), 1667, wood, painted, 168 cm
• St. Wenceslas (Jihočeska Muzeum (South Bohemian Museum), Budweis), 1667, wood, painted, 154 cm
• St. Veronica (Alsova-Jihočeska Gallery, Frauenberg (Hluboká nad Vltavou) ), 1667, wood, unmounted, 159 cm
• St. Dorothea (Alsova-Jihočeska Gallery, Frauenberg (Hluboká nad Vltavou)), 1667, wood, unmounted, 156 cm
• Anna Selbdritt with Putti (niche chapel in Salnau ), after 1650, attributed to Worath
• St. Archangel Michael (crowning the organ loft of the Schlägl collegiate church), 1670
• Madonna and Child (Katzing village chapel in Rohrbach-Berg ), around 1670
• High altar ( parish church of St. Laurentius in Kleinzell in the Mühlkreis ) around 1670

With an unknown date of origin:

• Anna Selbdritt II (private collection), consisting of four sculptures: Anna, Maria with the child, angel with book, angel; 120 cm, linden tree, painted (maybe just a workshop work for a village chapel); (Cat. No. 9)
• Madonna and Child (private property), 165 cm, linden tree, painted (cat. No. 4)
• Sorrowful mother (private property), 85 cm, linden tree, composed (cat.no.15)
• Our Lord in Misery (private property), 85 cm, linden tree, mounted (cat. No. 16)
• Statues of St. Sebastian and St. Florian (vestibule of the parsonage to the parish church of St. Giles and Leonhard Peilstein in the Mühlviertel ), (attributed)
• Crucifixion group (chapel of the dead of the parish church Rohrbach ), consisting of four sculptures: Cross 215 cm; Body 106 cm; Maria 107 cm; Johannes 108 cm, linden tree, mounted (cat.no.17)
• Crucifixion group (parish church Kirchschlag in Bohemia (Světlík) )
• Crucifixion group (St. Bartholomew's Church in Friedberg an der Moldau (Frymburk nad Vltavou) )
• Crucifixion group (on the front arch of the Maria-Anger-Church in Aigen)
• Crucifixion group (as an altar structure in the parish church of St. Michael in Oberhaid (Horní Dvořiště) ), from the later creative period
• Crucifixion group (as an altar structure in the church of St. Veit in Oberhaid near Prachatitz (Zbytiny) ), from the later creative period
• Corpus Christi altar (chapel in Kleinzell in the Mühlkreis )

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  Pulpit in the Schlägl collegiate church (1647)

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  High altar of the former St. Martin hospital church in Aigen (1644)

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  Crucifixion group Kalvarienbergkapelle Aigen (around 1650)

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  Kalvarienberggruppe in Schwalleck, Grein (around 1650)

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  St. Vitus in the Ulrichsberg parish church (around 1650)

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  Miraculous image of the Madonna with the child, pilgrimage church Maria-Trost Rohrbach-Berg (1656)

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  Anna Selbdritt in the St. Vitus Chapel of the Schlägl Collegiate Church (1664)

Trivia

"The pulpit by the Aigen sculptor Johann Worath (1647) is a mediocre average achievement in the bad carpenter style, which in those decades used to appear on altars and pulpits ..."

literature

• Johann Worath. Sculptor between Renaissance and Baroque. Catalog for the exhibition in the chapter hall of Schlägl Abbey from June 26 to September 30, 1975. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1975, ISBN 3-85214-141-9 .

With the articles printed there:

Evermod Hager: Johann Worath, the sculptor of the Schlägler prelate Martin Greysing. (First published: Verlag Heimatgaue, Linz 1920.)

Isfried Hermann Pichler: The works of Johann Worath in Bohemia.

Nicolò Rasmo : The Barat family of artists in South Triol.

Maximilian Schimböck: The Worath family of artists in Austria and Bavaria.

• Maximilian Schimböck: Siard Worath Abbot of Schlägl (1661–1701–1721). A contribution to the history of Schlägl Abbey in Upper Austria. Schlägler Schriften Volume 4. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85214-173-7 .
• Johannes Ramharter , Hannes Etzlstorfer: From the portfolio of a baroque sculptor. Johann Worath's estate in Schlägl Abbey. Catalog of the exhibition from November 4 to November 27, 1994 in the City Museum Linz-Nordico, from December 20, 1994 to January 29, 1995 in the Salzburg Baroque Museum. Self-published by the Salzburg Baroque Museum, Salzburg 1994.
• Harry Slapnicka: Famous personalities from the Mühlviertel and the Bohemian Forest. Volume 1. Edition Geschichte der Heimat, Grünbach 2001, ISBN 3-900943-82-6 , pp. 35–39.
• Dehio Handbook - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. Edited by the Federal Monuments Office . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-362-3 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Worath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bibliography on Johann Worath in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
• Website Schlägl Abbey

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Ramharter: The portfolio of a baroque sculptor. The sculptural drawings by Johann Worath in Schlägl Abbey. In: Johannes Ramharter, Hannes Etzlstorfer: From the portfolio of a baroque sculptor. Johann Worath's estate in Schlägl Abbey. P. 39 f.
2. ↑ Johannes Ramharter: Notes on the artistic relationships between Schlägl Abbey and the Archdiocese of Salzburg in the Baroque period. In: Baroque reports. Information sheets on the fine arts of the 17th and 18th centuries. Issue 22/23. Salzburg Baroque Museum, Salzburg 1999.
3. ^ The baroque magnate Johann Christian I von Eggenberg . In: Online encyclopedia encyklopedie.ckrumlov.cz about Krummau .
4. ↑ Laurenz Pröll: Kleinzell. Forays into the old days. In: Mühlviertler Nachrichten , May 4, 1901, p. 2
5. ↑ Historical Calendar - Forum Upper Austria History
6. ↑ Worathweg on linzwiki.at
7. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 264
8. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 347
9. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 234
10. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 832ff.
    Michael Kaltenbrunner:  The upper Mühlviertel. St Wolfgang am Stein. In:  Linzer Volksblatt , November 15, 1925, p. 19 (online at ANNO ).
11. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 8
12. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 819
13. ↑ Michael Kaltenbrunner:  The upper Mühlviertel. Schlägl pen. In:  Linzer Volksblatt , December 6, 1925, p. 477 (online at ANNO ).
14. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. Pp. 825 and 828
15. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 8
16. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 893
17. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 679
18. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 835
19. ↑ Signed in pencil on the back: 1656 Heilige Maria… bit got vier uns Johan Waräth bilthauer
    Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 95
20. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 821
21. ↑ ^{a b c d} One of the saved sculptures of the St. Auratianus altar in the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Budweis , which was destroyed by fire in 1911.
22. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 897
23. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 100.
24. ↑ Kleinzell (The builder of our high altar) In: Mühlviertler Nachrichten , 4th August 1923, p. 3
    J. Sigl:  The Christmas month and the Christian stonemasons. In:  The Christmas market. Entertainment supplement and gazette of the “Linzer Volksblatt” , December 16, 1923, p. 1 (online at ANNO ). Not mentioned in: Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 369
    
25. ^ Michael Kaltenbrunner: Country and folklore of the Mühlviertel. Peilstein. In: Mühlviertler Nachrichten , January 15, 1926, p. 5
26. ↑ Chapel crime. In:  Linzer Volksblatt , January 30, 1929, p. 6 (online at ANNO ). Kleinzell (Corpus Christi festival.) In: Mühlviertler Nachrichten , June 19, 1925, p. 4 Not mentioned in: Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 367ff.
    
    
27. ↑ book review by Hermann Ubell :  science. The art monuments of Schlägl Abbey from the time of Martin Greysing 1627–1665. (Linz 1918, Akademische Preßvereinsdruckerei.) By Mr. Evermod Hager, Canon von Schlägl, professor at the State High School in Linz. In:  Wiener Zeitung , August 30, 1918, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).

Remarks

1. ↑ In German documents in South Tyrol, the name spelling often changes with Barati , Barathi , Worathi , Worath u. ä; Also known are forms such as Barät , Baratti , Borräth , Parater , Waräth , Warräht , Waräthy , Waröth , Wärati , Wärrät or Vorat u. a. m.
2. ↑ Today the house at Hauptstrasse No. 11.
   Cf. also: Dehio-Handbuch - Upper Austria - Volume I - Mühlviertel. P. 9.
3. ↑ When binding the baptismal register of the parish of Aigen at a later date, some pages were swapped so that the day can be determined, but no longer the year.
4. ↑ An invoice from November 3, 1661 has been received in the monastery archive, according to which Worath was paid for the creation of a basic plan for the monastery and the monastery church.