Joseph Schöpf

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Self-portrait, around 1800

Joseph Schöpf (born February 2, 1745 in Telfs , Tyrol , † September 15, 1822 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian painter of the late Baroque , who stood out particularly with altar paintings and church frescos .

Life

After attending school in Stams in 1755, Joseph Schöpf began an apprenticeship with the Innsbruck painter Philipp Haller . Between 1758 and 1765 he stayed in Salzburg , Passau and Vienna before returning to Tyrol. Shortly afterwards he became an assistant to Martin Knoller and helped him with his numerous commissions for church frescoes. In 1775, when the two were staying in Milan , Schöpf received an imperial scholarship through Knoller's agency, which enabled him to stay in Rome , where he stayed until 1783. In Rome he studied at the Accademia di San Luca and met the classicist artists Anton Raphael Mengs and Heinrich Füger . This is where his first own works were created, which he produced for aristocratic clients. Due to an illness, Schöpf returned to Stams in 1783, whose Cistercian monastery he also remained privately connected, and subsequently created independent ceiling frescoes for churches in Bavaria and, above all, Tyrol. His marriage to Gertrud Schonner, whom he married in 1806, ended a year later with her death; Schöpf remained childless. Out of gratitude, he bequeathed his estate to the Stams Monastery, as it was here that his talent was discovered and his training was provided.

A marble epitaph for Joseph Schöpf can be found in the Johanneskirche am Innrain in Innsbruck. At the place of the house where he was born at Untermarktstrasse 19 in Telfs, there is a memorial plaque and a portrait bust, created by Alois Gapp, from 1875. In Innsbruck and Telfs streets were also named after him.

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Marien Altar in Klausen
Vigilius fresco in Kaltern
Ceiling frescoes St. Peter, Villnöß

Joseph Schöpf is the last representative of late baroque church art in Tyrol. Although influenced by Martin Knoller, his work already shows the influence of classicism, which he got to know during his long stay in Rome. Thus Schöpf is a typical representative of the transitional style of the late 18th century. In his panel paintings , the pathetic and dramatic expressiveness of the Baroque takes a back seat in favor of clear composition and cooler colors. His work includes history pictures with biblical and mythological content, but above all wall paintings for churches. In addition, Schöpf also emerged as a draftsman.

As an assistant to Martin Knoller, he worked on his ceiling frescoes for the Karlskirche in Volders (1764-66), for the monastery church Ettal (1769), the Benedictine Abbey of Neresheim (1770-75), the Bürgersaal in Munich (1773) and the Benedictine Abbey of Gries , today Bozen (1771–74), involved.

Further works by Joseph Schöpf can be found in the Diocesan Museum of Bressanone and in the City Museum of Bozen . 200 oil paintings and sketches, 600 copperplate engravings and around 2000 hand-drawn sketches are in the Stams Abbey.

Exhibitions

  • Telfs (1995)
  • Martin Knoller - Joseph Schöpf, Stams Abbey (1996)
  • Asbach Monastery Museum (1998)
  • From nude to fresco - Joseph Schöpf , Museum Kloster Asbach (2008) [1]

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Hippler, Reinhard Rampold: The university parish and the university church on the Innrain. 2nd revised edition, Innsbruck 2013
personal data
SURNAME Schöpf, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Telfs
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1822
Place of death innsbruck