Josef Arnold the Elder

Handing over the keys to Petrus, ceiling fresco in the parish church of St. Peter near Laion, 1845

Josef Arnold the Elder (* 14. March 1788 in Stans , † 23. February 1879 in Innsbruck ) was a Tyrolean painter of Classicism .

Life

Josef Arnold started out as a clog maker. In adolescence he had to look after the family with his mother as a farm worker. He learned painting from Eberhard Zobel at Fiecht Monastery and attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1818 to 1825 .

In Vienna he married Franziska Kuchinka. He had two sons, Josef Arnold the Younger (* 1823 in Vienna, † 1862 in Innsbruck) and Alois († 1863 in Rome); both were painters and made numerous frescoes with him. In 1829 Arnold went on a study trip to Italy , which he had to break off after three months for health reasons.

Alois was less valued as a painter by his father than his brother Josef. In 1853 he moved to Rome, where he renounced art as a hermit lived in the country and died in 1863.

One of his pupils was Franz Plattner .

Works

• 1814 Entombment in the Laurentiuskirche near Wattens
• 1827–1828 frescoes in the parish church of Gries am Brenner
• 1829 pictures of the death of St. Joseph and Christ on the cross in the parish church of Imst
• 1832 Easter grave for the parish church of St. Johann in Tirol
• 1833 altarpiece St. Martin as intercessor before the Madonna in the parish church Ladis
• 1837 High altar picture in the Sebastian Church in Salzburg
• 1841 ceiling fresco beheading of St. John the Baptist above the organ in the parish church of Axams
• 1842 baptism of Christ and St. Martin in the parish church of St. Christina in Val Gardena
• 1844 fresco cycles from the life of Saints Stephen and Laurentius in Laion (South Tyrol)
• 1845 frescoes with son Joseph the Younger in St. Peter near Laion (South Tyrol)
• 1848–49 The Marienleben cycle in Enneberg
• Altar painting of St. Vitus as a martyr before Mary and Christ; Madonna with Saint Barbara and Saint Catherine of Alexandria on the left side altar; a painting of Saint Sebastian with the widow of the martyr Castulus on the right side altar, in the parish church of Kufstein

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Arnold, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University book printer L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 69 ( digitized version ).
• Herbert Preindl: Josef Arnold the Elder (1788–1879). A Tyrolean fresco painter between Baroque and Nazarene. Tyrolia, Innsbruck et al. 1991, ISBN 3-7022-1810-6 .
• Sybille-Karin Moser: Tyrolean pictures and their representation. Painting from 1830 to 1900. In: Paul Naredi-Rainer, Lukas Madersbacher (Hrsg.): Art in Tirol. Volume 2: From the Baroque to the Present (= Art History Studies - Innsbruck. NF Vol. 4). Tyrolia et al., Innsbruck et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7022-2775-3 , pp. 519-560, here p. 527, p. 303 (illustration).
• Maria Hölzl Stifter: The wall painting of historicism in South Tyrol. Ecclesiastical art between late classicism and the Nazarenes 1820–1914. Athesia, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-8266-106-9 .

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