Josef Troyer (sculptor)

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Josef Troyer (born July 24, 1909 in Wallhorn , municipality of Prägraten , East Tyrol, † 1998 ) was an Austrian sculptor and painter .

Life

Even in elementary school, Troyer attracted attention with his original wood carvings and then attended the regional carving school in St. Jakob in Defereggen . At the age of 18 he received his first commission when Friedrich Funder had him carve a crucifix for the Herold publishing house in Vienna. With the support of Josef Schnitt, the rector of the Vienna Boys' Choir , who spent every summer with the boys in Hinterbichl and who recognized his talent, he was able to study in Vienna, first from 1929 to 1933 at the Kunstgewerbeschule Wien and then from 1934 to 1938 at the Academy of Fine Arts with Anton Hanak , Albert Bechtold and Ferdinand Andri . He has received several scholarships and prizes, including the master school award, and graduated from the master class in fresco painting.

After military service and imprisonment, he first returned to Prägraten and was able to use a room in the Virgen fire station as a workshop. Even when he lived in Vienna again, he remained connected to his East Tyrolean homeland through holidays and assignments. In Vienna he was involved with numerous tasks in the reconstruction of St. Stephen's Cathedral and became a cathedral sculptor. In 1952 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus . In the same year he married the Viennese teacher Gretl Helm in St. Stephen's Cathedral. From 1981 he lived in Prägraten for most of the year, but continued to work as an artist.

Troyer mainly created religious sculptures, especially cribs , as well as frescoes , paintings and woodcuts . He had exhibitions in Lienz, Vienna and Belgium.

Troyer was also an avid alpinist who climbed the Großvenediger more than a hundred times and the Großglockner more than fifty times.

Awards

Works

Concrete relief of the risen man at the parish church of St. Franz von Sales in Vienna-Favoriten
  • Redesign of the warrior chapel, Innervillgraten , 1949/1950
  • Reliefs on the coffered ceiling, Herz-Jesu-Kirche , Lienz, around 1950
  • Frescoes on the choir wall and on the triumphal arch, stations of the cross, statue of St. Michael above the vestibule gable, Münzgrabenkirche , Graz, 1954–1963
  • Way of the Cross, Parish Church Bad Traunstein , around 1960
  • Concrete relief Christ the Risen on the facade, tabernacle, parish church of St. Francis de Sales , Vienna-Favoriten, 1962/63
  • Mosaic of St. Francis receives the stigmata , parish church St. Andreas, Prägraten, 1971
  • Relief of the Risen Christ, Prägraten cemetery chapel, 1989
  • Pietà made of stone pine, Liesing parish church , Vienna
  • Altar and tabernacle, chapel of St. Raffael in the nurses' and children's home of the Benedictine Sisters of Adoration, Vienna-Simmering

literature

  • Elfriede Bernhauer: Professor Josef Troyer. For the great Tyrolean artist on his 85th birthday. In: Osttiroler Heimatblätter, number 7/1994 ( PDF; 141 kB )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Blassnig: Prägraten honors his cathedral sculptor Josef Troyer , Tiroler Tageszeitung from August 8, 2015
  2. ↑ Fingernagel-Grüll, Wiesauer: cemetery chapel, warrior chapel. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Fingernail-Grüll, Wiesauer: Herz-Jesu Kirche. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Joseph Troyer , Offsite_Graz: Public art since Forty-five, Kulturserver Graz
  5. ^ Elfriede Massoud: Parish Franz von Sales: Church leaders and stations of the cross. ( PDF; 4.6 MB )
  6. ↑ Fingernail-Grüll, Wiesauer: Parish Church hl. Andreas. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Fingernail-Grüll, Wiesauer: cemetery chapel, cemetery. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Troyer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallhorn , community of Prägraten, East Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH 1998