Josef Lorch

Josef Lorch (born July 19, 1929 in Füssen , † November 4, 1999 ibid) was a German artist, restorer and home curator .

Life

"Coronation of Mary" renovated by Josef Lorch. By Peter Strüb the Younger from Veringenstadt, also called Master of Sigmaringen (around 1515).

His grandfather was already working on the design of Neuschwanstein Castle . Lorch's father again worked in a church painter's workshop. Josef Lorch was a trained painter, church painter , barrel painter and gilder . He continued his education in the workshops of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation and the Bavarian National Museum . From 1954 to 1957 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Franz Nagel . Lorch's studio was in the Magnus Monastery in Füssen.

Around 1963 he restored the frescoes in the St. Peters Chapel in Veringenstadt .

Lorch had been home nurse since 1973. From 1972 to 1977 he was chairman of the Alt Füssen association .

The catalog of works comprises 73 objects. In the area of ​​the Euregio via salina , apart from 26 objects in his hometown, Lorch was active in Sulzberg , Immenstadt im Allgäu , Neuschwanstein Castle , Unterthingau , Kempten (Allgäu) , Memmingen , Kaufbeuren , Wertach and other places.

In Kempten he secured the frescoes in the ballroom of the Ponikauhaus , restored wall paintings in the large conference room in the town hall and exposed the late Gothic frescoes in the hall on the 2nd floor of the old customs office (Stadtarchiv; Rathausplatz 3). In Lindau in Lake Constance , Lorch restored the town hall and the collegiate church.

Awards

• Monument Protection Medal
• Citizen Medal of Füssen

literature

• Wolfgang Haberl: Josef Lorch in memory . In: Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund, Heimatverein Kempten eV 2002, number 102, pp. 7-10. ISBN 3-00-011256-1
• Wolfgang Haberl: Allgäu, Ausserfern, Kleinwalsertal, Bregenzerwald. Lexicon of the Euregio via salina. Publishing house Tobias Dannheimer, Kempten, 2002, p. 236f. ISBN 3-88881-038-8