Josef Bachlechner the Younger

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Josef Bachlechner the Younger (born March 3,  1921 in Hall in Tirol , † December 20, 1979 there ) was an Austrian sculptor.

Life

Josef Bachlechner was born the son of the sculptor Josef Bachlechner the Elder in Hall. After attending the trade school in Innsbruck with Hans Pontiller , he worked in Jakob Adlhart's studio in Salzburg . After the Second World War he settled in Hall as a freelance sculptor. In 1979 he was awarded the Badge of Honor of the City of Hall, which could no longer be presented to him due to his unexpected death.

Bachlechner mainly created religious works, but broke away from the model of his father and his teachers and developed an independent style. His bronze figures are mostly slim figures with expressive sign language and strictly stylized folds of clothing.

Exhibitions

  • 1950: New Christian Art
  • 1962 and 1964: Biennale of Christian Art, Salzburg
  • 1965: Vatican Pavilion, New York World's Fair
  • 1966: Contemporary Christian Art, New York
  • 1974: Palais Liechtenstein , Feldkirch
  • 1980: Hasegg Castle , Hall

Works

May flute player (1962)
  • with the architect Franz Kotek : 1963: bronze commemorative plaque for the 600th anniversary of the unification of Tyrol with Austria at Landhausplatz in Innsbruck
  • 1962: Small memorial bronze Maienpfeifenbläser in Mandelsbergerstrasse in Innsbruck- Wilten
  • 1971: Fieberbrunnen below the parish church with a monument to Margarete Maultasch in Fieberbrunn
  • Relief figures in the Sacred Heart Chapel built in 1954 in Eichholz-Filen in Fliess
  • 1951: Stone relief Madonna in the altar niche of the cemetery chapel in the cemetery of the parish church of St. Michael in Gnadenwald
  • 1957: Partial redesign of the high altar of the monastery church of St. Martin in Gnadenwald
  • 1955: Stone reliefs on the choir gallery wall in the Franciscan Church in Hall in Tirol
  • Draft of the Expositurkirche hl. Maria in Kolsassberg , executed by the master builder Herbert Junker, there bronze portal with expressive annunciation group, crucifix, Madonna figure
  • 1968: Fountain bowl with bronze relief column in the new cemetery on Rettlsteinerweg in Wattens
  • 1953: Dr. Karl Steiner fountain with bronze gargoyles and bust in the Karl Steiner settlement in Wattens
  • 1959: Figures of Christ in the mandorla between Mary and Joseph , St. Vincent at the high altar of the neo-Romanesque monastery church of the Sisters of Mercy in Zams

Web links

Commons : Josef Bachlechner the Younger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Dehio Tirol 1980 , Josef Bachlechner the Younger, list of artists
personal data
SURNAME Bachlechner, Josef the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall in Tirol
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 1979
Place of death Hall in Tirol