Josef Falbesoner

Josef Alois Falbesoner (born November 27, 1767 in Nassereith , † February 19, 1848 there ) was an Austrian sculptor and sacristan .

Gravestone of the Falbesoner family in Dormitz: Joseph Alois Falbesoner, his wife Notburga Bader and his parents Martin Falbesoner and Rosina Neururer are buried here.

Life

His parents were the sculptors Martin Falbesoner (1728–1815) and Rosina Neururer. The modest family income was probably the reason why Josef Alois Falbesoner only received 20 weeks of elementary instruction in Imst at the age of twelve. After that he was likely to have been largely self-taught. According to Wurzbach's notes, Falbesoner went to Einsiedeln, Switzerland, in 1781, where he drew and copied art treasures. However, there is no evidence of this. After that, Falbesoner moved to Reutte to the Strelle family and carved nativity scenes and ornaments for the Franciscans.

In 1788 Falbesoner went to Freising, where he did an apprenticeship with Franz Speicher, who also came from Nassereith. After stays in Augsburg and Munich, he returned to his home parish in 1792. Later he worked as a freedom fighter in armed conflicts in the Paznaun Valley and on the Fernpass. From 1802 he took over the sacristan's office and the sculptor's workshop from his father Martin Falbesoner for 47 years until his death in 1848. The Falbesoner family lived in Nassereith in house no. 8 (today Schulgasse no. 39) not far from the church. There is still a plaque commemorating their work today. Falbesoner only has sacred orders. It is said of him that he chased a skilled apprentice out of the Oberland because he had carved a carnival mask: "My Eiselen are not there for larvae" - that is his argument. Falbesoner also worked as an architect. He planned u. a. the Fernpassstraße and made a complete survey plan of Nassereith.

Josef Alois Falbesoner married Johanna Strelle from Berwang on September 2, 1806. His wife died exactly one year later on September 2, 1807 giving birth to a daughter. The sculptor married for the second time on November 23, 1807: Notburga Bader from Lermoos. His son Ignaz Falbsoner (1808–1881) took up his legacy as a sculptor and sacristan. His gravestone is still on the cemetery wall in Dormitz today.

Guardian angel on the right side altar in the parish church in Oberleutasch (1820/21).

Works (selection)

• Dormitz - St. Nikolaus branch and pilgrimage church: several tombstones, especially for clergymen (1795/1820), resurrection relief (1844), Christ in the grave (around 1840)
• Flaurling - parish church: new church building, high altar with figures, pulpit with figures (1836)
• Fulpmes - parish church: figures and putti on the altars (1830/39), holy grave
• Imst - Museum im Ballhaus: Draft for architrave, Lammandl nativity scene
• Innsbruck - Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum: Pietà (approx. 1800)
• Nassereith : several fountain figures, crucifixes and nativity scenes
• Nassereith - parish church: new church, high altar according to drafts, crucifix, confessional reliefs (1846/47)
• Oberleutasch - parish church: new building while keeping the baroque tower, high altar with figures, tabernacle, side altars and pulpit (1820/21)
• Sautens - Parish Church: Figures and reliefs on the altars, tabernacle reliefs and pulpit partly in collaboration with Franz Xaver Renn (1834/35)
• Schwaz - parish church: tabernacle draft, not executed (1807)
• Silz - Parish Church: Figures (1807, no longer available)
• Stams - Cistercian monastery: Meinhard II. (No longer available)
• Zaunhof in Pitztal: plans for the church tower (1805)

The parish church of Nassereith was built in 1846/47 according to plans by Josef Alois Falbesoner.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Falbesoner, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 135 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Norbert Mantl: The Falbesoner von Nassereith - Martin Falbesoner, in: Tiroler Heimatblätter 28 (1953), Issue 1–3, pp. 11–17.
• Gert Ammann: The Tyrolean Oberland. The districts of Imst, Landeck and Reutte - his works of art, historical forms of life and settlement (= Austrian art monograph IX), Salzburg 1978.
• Gert Ammann: Die Tirolerische Nation 1790-1820, exhibition catalog Innsbruck 1984, Innsbruck 1984.
• Adalbert Frischhut: Heimatbuch Nassereith, Nassereith 1987.
• Rudolf Silberberger: Parish Church of St. Veit in Fulpmes (= Austrian Christian Art Centers 312), Salzburg 1998.
• Reinhard Weidl: The churches of Nassereith and Dormitz (= Christian art centers of Austria 512), Salzburg 2010.
• Verena Friedrich: Leutasch in Tyrol. Parish church of St. Maria Magdalena in Oberleutasch / Kirchplatzl (= Peda-Kunstführer 919), Passau 2013.
• Klaus Wankmiller: Joseph Alois Falbesoner (1767 - 1848). On the 250th birthday of the sculptor, freedom fighter and sacristan from Nassereith, in: Tiroler Heimatblätter 92 (2017), No. 2, pp. 78–83.
• Klaus Wankmiller: "My Eiselen are not there for larvae". On the 250th birthday of the sculptor, freedom fighter and sacristan Joseph Alois Falbesoner (1767 - 1848) from Nassereith, in: Extra Verren - Yearbook of the Museum Association of the Reutte District 11 (2016), pp. 93–146.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wurzbach (1858), pp. 158–159.
2. ↑ Wankmiller (2016), p. 98.
3. ↑ Wankmiller (2016), 122–123.