Josef Huber (painter)

Johann Josef Huber , usually called Josef Huber-Feldkirch (born March 16, 1858 in Feldkirch ; † July 26, 1932 at Schloss Neuburg am Inn ), was an Austrian painter who lived and worked in Munich and Düsseldorf .

Life

Huber was a student of the Tyrolean church painter Franz Plattner and later studied at the Munich Art Academy with Nikolaus Gysis , Ludwig von Löfftz and Gabriel von Hackl and in 1887 at the Académie Julian in Paris. He then initially worked in Munich and taught from 1909 to 1923 as a professor for church monumental art at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

He was a representative of historicism , but also took influences from Symbolism , Art Nouveau and Expressionism .

From 1910 to 1932 Huber was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association "Malkasten" . From 1926 to 1927 and 1930 he had a studio in Düsseldorf in the Eiskellerberg .

Works

Leisure time in the workshop , 1892

Gable mosaic on the building of the Hypo Vorarlberg Bank , formerly Landhaus Bregenz , 1923

• State exhibition 1887 in Bregenz (painting, 1887; in the archives of the Vorarlberg state capital Bregenz)
• Steam boiler forge (oil painting, 1891/1892; owned by Mannesmann Plastics Machinery AG)
• Leisure time in the workshop (oil painting, 1892)
• neo-baroque repainting of the nave vault of the collegiate church of St. Mary of the Assumption in Medlingen (1894/1896)
• Mosaic with a symbolic figure of "Austria" and the coats of arms of the Counts of Montfort and the Counts of Werdenberg , 1904/1905, in a stepped gable on the side wing of the Feldkirch Regional Court
• Glass mosaic for the Salvator Church in Gera (1907)
• Window church St. Walburga in Monheim , Bayer. Swabia
• Glass mosaics, windows, candlesticks and ornamental painting Petrikirche Mülheim an der Ruhr, 1912/13 (not preserved)
• Gable mosaic (1923) on the building of the Hypo Vorarlberg Bank , formerly Landhaus Bregenz
• Fresco The Four Last Things (1923) and mosaic Entry into Jerusalem (1924) in the entrance wall and in the flat gable of the parish church of St. Martin in Dornbirn
• The last four things. Vienna Art Print AG, Vienna 1923 (printmaking, digitized version )

literature

• Huber-Feldkirch, Joseph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 15-16 .
• Huber (-Feldkirch) Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 444.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vorarlberg in the 20th century (school media center)
2. ^ Entry Huber-Feldkirch, Jos., Prof., Eiskellerberg 1/3 . In: Address book for Düsseldorf city and surroundings , 1931
3. ^ Ernst Haiger: "A place of beautiful and noble art": The redesign of the Petrikirche 1912/13 . - In: Baukunst in Mülheim an der Ruhr = magazine of the historical association Mülheim an der Ruhr 91/2016, pp. 115–189
4. ↑ War memorial St. Martin - "Mine is retaliation" ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dornbirn Lexicon)