Josef Valentin Kassin

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kassin bust in Klagenfurt's Goethe Park
Kassin memorial plaque on the house where he was born
Kassin's birthplace in Klagenfurt St. Ruperechtstrasse 69
Marble medallion on the tombstone of the Kassin family grave in Klagenfurt-St. Ruprecht
Relief bust Marie Edle von Burger near Ratzendorf-Maria Saal

Josef Valentin Kassin (born May 15, 1856 in Klagenfurt , † December 30, 1931 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Kassin came from a family from the then independent community of St. Ruprecht , which is now a district of Klagenfurt. The house where he was born is number 69 on Sankt Ruprecht Strasse and is a well-preserved two-story building (see picture). In 1871, when Kassin was fifteen years old, his father, a respected man, mayor and a beer brewer and farmer, died. At that time Josef Kassin was attending secondary school in Klagenfurt.

When the sculptor Franz Pönninger came to Klagenfurt for a new monument for Empress Maria Theresa , he was introduced to the artistically gifted Kassin. In 1873 Pönninger brought him to Vienna, where two years later he was allowed to attend the Academy of Fine Arts . 1885 Kassin received for the bronze group Samson and Delilah the Rome Prize , after a five-year study in Italy followed. After that, Vienna became his permanent residence. The sculptor was considered a lovable and humble person with a lot of humor, he also played the cello .

People in Carinthia were proud of him. Kassin kept receiving smaller orders from his homeland.

Kassin worked in a very strange studio , including a hoard of various collectibles, in Bäckerstraße ( ON  20), Vienna's inner city . Lehmann's General Housing Gazette noted the residential address in the year of his death, Dominikanerbastei  6, Vienna-Innere Stadt.

Weakened by a severe cold , the artist died at the age of 75. He found his final resting place in the St. Ruprecht cemetery in Klagenfurt; the simple tombstone is adorned with a marble medallion with a girl's face, signed “J. Kassin 1929 ".

Picture gallery

  • Fountain mask at the Fluderbrunnen in Schillerpark, Klagenfurt

  • Kassin family grave in the Klagenfurt cemetery in Sankt Ruprecht

  • Kink bust made of Carrara marble below the Schweizerhaus on Klagenfurt Kreuzbergl (1899)

  • Beethoven monument, Helenental (1899)

  • Undine Fountain, Kurpark Baden near Vienna (1903)

  • “Seafarers”, Neue Burg , Vienna

  • Statuette " Kaiserschütze ", commissioned by the Imperial and Royal Ministry of National Defense (1908)

  • War memorial in Tarvisio (1909)

  • Bronze relief "Farewell" from 1910 on the crypt of the Herbst family of doctors at the Klagenfurt-Annabichl cemetery

  • "Herbecks calm" on the peninsula of Pörtschach am Wörther See

Works (selection)

  • Bust for the Klagenfurt factory owner Christof Neuner, who died in 1877
  • Bronze relief for Johann von Herbeck at the "Herbecks-Ruhe" on the peninsula in Pörtschach am Wörther See (1878)
  • Portrait bust of the Klagenfurt original of the Ratsch-Thresl
  • Beethoven monument (bronze relief) on the Beethovenstein in Helenental (1899)
  • Portrait bust of the architect Martin von Kink at the Klagenfurt Schweizerhaus (1899)
  • Grave monument for Carl Millöcker in the Vienna Central Cemetery (1900)
  • Stone figure of St. Barbara for the Church of St. Jakob in Villach (1906)
  • Bronze relief "Farewell" from 1910 for the wall crypt of the Herbst family of doctors in Klagenfurt-Annabichl, who had lost their son Walter in 1909 at the age of seven
  • Marble medallion with a girl's face for the tombstone of the family's own grave in Klagenfurt-St. Ruprecht (1929)
  • Undine Fountain in Baden near Vienna (1903)
  • Seafarers at Heldenplatz in Vienna
  • Statuette "Kaiserschütze" (1908), presented to Emperor Franz Joseph I in a special audience 
  • War memorial in Tarvisio (1909)
  • Dolphin fountain on Erzherzog-Johann-Platz in Klagenfurt (1924)
  • Spanheimerdenkmal at the old place. This bronze sculpture was erected in 1932 and melted down for weapons production as early as 1940
  • Mask of the Fluderbrunnen in Klagenfurt's Schillerpark. The fountain originally stood in front of the town house and was fed by the water from the Feuerbach. In 1971 it was demolished and rebuilt in Schillerpark in 1985
  • Portrait bust of Emperor Franz Joseph I , 1911, marble, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
  • Statuette Imperial and Royal Gendarme , 1905, plaster, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 87 f.
  2. ↑ a b “Lehmann 1931” , p. 711 . In: digital.wienbibliothek.at .
  3. ↑ a b W. D .:  sculptor Josef Kassin has died. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 24172/1931, December 31, 1931, p. 3 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  4. ↑ The unveiling of the Beethoven monument. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 53/1900 (XXth year), July 4, 1900, p. 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt.
  5. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 4. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 270.
  6. ^ The unveiling of the Undine fountain in Baden's spa gardens. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 52/1903, July 1, 1903, p. 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt.
  7. ↑ Josef Kassin's "Kaiserschütze". In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 15/1908 (Volume XIII), April 8, 1908, p. 6. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb.
  8. ↑ The hero monument at Tarvisio. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 16092/1909, June 10, 1909, p. 13, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp,
    Little Chronicle. (...) Unveiling of the war memorial in Tarvisio. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 16191/1909, September 17, 1909, p. 8, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp,
    Unveiling of the war memorial in Tarvisio. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 16207/1909, October 3, 1909, p. 9, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
personal data
SURNAME Kassin, Josef Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1931
Place of death Klagenfurt