Josef Groebmer

Josef Mathias Gröbmer (also Joseph , also Josef Anton , also Gröbner ; born February 5, 1815 in Bruneck , † September 21, 1882 in Haidhausen near Munich ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Statue of Charles of Lorraine in the General Hall of the Museum of Military History

The son of a day laborer studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1835 . He was a student of Ludwig Schwanthaler and later his collaborator on the model for the Tilly statue for the Feldherrnhalle and the gable groups of the Propylaea in Munich. He worked in Munich and went blind towards the end of his life. In addition to monuments and architectural sculptures, he created numerous religious sculptures for Bavarian and Tyrolean churches.

Works

Statue Teaching Christ , Arcade 75, Innsbruck Municipal Cemetery , 1859
Statue of the risen Christ at the (former) main entrance of the municipal cemetery, Innsbruck, 1860
Marble statues of Tilly and Karl von Lothringen in the Arsenal (now the Museum of Military History ), Vienna, 1866

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Gröbmer (sculptor) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 5th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski & C. Dittmarsch.), Vienna 1859, p. 363 ( digitized version ).
Groebmer, Josef Anton . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 63 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Gröbn (m) er Josef Mathias. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 67.

Web links

Commons : Josef Gröbmer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 02258 Joseph Gröbner in the register 1809–1841 of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
^ ^A ^b Heinrich Hammer: The palaces and civil buildings of Innsbruck. Art history guide through the buildings and monuments . Hölzel, Vienna 1923, p. 200–206 ( tugraz.at [PDF; 1.4 MB ]).

personal data
SURNAME	Groebmer, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Groebner, Josef; Groebner, Joseph; Groebner, Josef Anton; Groebner, Josef Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brunico
DATE OF DEATH	September 21, 1882
Place of death	Haidhausen

[1] 02258 Joseph Gröbner in the register 1809–1841 of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich

[hammer-2] A ^b Heinrich Hammer: The palaces and civil buildings of Innsbruck. Art history guide through the buildings and monuments . Hölzel, Vienna 1923, p. 200–206 ( tugraz.at [PDF; 1.4 MB ]).