Joseph Elsner junior

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Art Nouveau church Dietelskirchen

Joseph Elsner jun. (Born March 26, 1879 in Munich ; † July 24, 1970 in Ottobrunn ) was a German architect , church decorator and decorative painter .

Life

Main altar Dietelskirchen

Joseph Elsner was the son of the Munich architect of the same name, Joseph Elsner . After training at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich, Elsner jun. continued his training in the architectural office and in the "Institute for Christian Art" of his father. After being involved in various projects of his father, he joined his father's company as an architect and site manager. Subsequently, he specialized in church renovations and extensions of country churches in Upper and Lower Bavaria as well as in Bavarian Swabia. A frequent client was the diocese of Augsburg . Shortly before the First World War, the Art Nouveau church Maria Immaculata in Dietelskirchen was built according to his plans and under his construction management. With this project he succeeded in overcoming the previous forms of historicism . The parish church of St. Michael in Schönberg , built in the neo- baroque style , a joint project by father and son Elsner, also contains elements of Art Nouveau.

During the First World War, Joseph Elsner jun. of the Royal Bavarian Reserve Pioneer Company 13 and came to the Western Front ( Flanders, Alsace and Lorraine ). There he was for the construction of Mebu Fittings (Mebu = m onierter E isen b eton and responsible nterstand) and Mini Development. With numerous photos from this time, he documented the construction of the fortifications and life in the positions at the front. From October 1917 to October 1918 he was a member of Landwehr Company 3, which was deployed near Riga .

After the First World War, Joseph Elsner jun. for the Liebfrauenfestspiele von Vilsbiburg (1922–1932) twenty sets that were inspired by his trip to Jerusalem, which he undertook shortly before the outbreak of war. This is probably why he had an office in Vilsbiburg in the mid-1920s. In a description of the Liebfrauenfestspiele you can read: “The stage designers were advised by an expert, a practicing artist and former Palestinian pilgrim, Mr. Architect Joseph Elsner-Munich, who found understanding support from the decoration and church painter, Mr. Doll- Munich. What was created here in loyal cooperation with the game master goes far beyond the average! The artist Elsner was completely permeated by the idea that poets, composers and painters must complement and complete one another. "

Because of the difficult economic conditions in the post-war years, in which rural church construction also largely came to a standstill, Joseph Elsner later turned to the construction of Christmas cribs . In 1923 he founded the Vilsbiburger local group in the "Association of Bavarian Crib Friends". He designed a nativity scene for the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf in Vilsbiburg, which was created under his guidance. It originally consisted of 52 biblical scenes, which also gave his impressions of Palestine.

Joseph Elsner jun. was a member of the Association for Folk Art , which campaigned, among other things, for restorations appropriate to historical monuments. Since 1905 he was married to Olga Späth from Passau . The marriage resulted in the sons Rudolf (1905–2003), Josef (1906–1989) and Hermann (1909–1943). Because his name is identical to his father, the attribution of his independent works is not always certain.

Works

Joseph Elsner junior with his father of the same name
  • Seifriedswörth , interior restoration of the Church of St. Peter and Paul (1902)
  • Johannesbrunn , interior restoration of the Church of the Conception of Mary (1906); Altars, pulpit and organ were renovated according to Joseph Elsner's plans and the walls were painted with colorful floral ornaments in the neo-Gothic style. They were whitewashed in 1938, partially exposed again during the renovation in 1990 and extensively restored according to the original templates from 1906.
  • Vilsbiburg : Draft for a reconstruction and new building of the parish church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into a "Cathedral in the Vilstal" (1907), which however could not be realized. In 1925 the existing church was renovated inside and outside by Joseph Elsner junior, who had submitted a cost estimate for 12,500 marks.
  • Treidlkofen , St. Ulrich parish church: extension (1908)
  • Waging , Parish Church of St. Martin: Reconstruction of the Holy Grave (1910)
  • Pauluszell , parish church Pauli Conversion: interior restoration (1908/09)
  • Seyboldsdorf , parish church St. Johannes: ceiling and wall paintings (1908/12; the paintings that were painted over in 1956 were exposed, retouched and restored in 2003). In 1934 Elsner donated the figure "Christ in Rest" to the Seyboldsdorf Church.
  • Wörishofen , St. Justina parish church: re-baroque and expansion (1910/11)
  • Schönberg , St. Michael parish church: new building, together with his father Joseph Elsner (1912)
  • Dietelskirchen , Art Nouveau church Maria Immaculata , new building (1913/14)
  • Saaldorf , parish church St. Martin: new building (1914)
  • Nassenbeuren , St. Vitus Church : redesign of the main and side altars (1920)
  • Zusamaltheim : Parish Church of St. Martin, general restoration (1922)
  • Bonbruck : Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary, painting (1923)
  • Lichtenhaag , reconstruction of the church (1926)
  • Hohenzell : Partly new building (1926/27), ceiling painting by Oswald Völkel
  • Munich-Lerchenau : Design for the Church of St. Agnes (1936), not realized , but assistance in converting a sheepfold into an emergency church in 1932

literature

  • Georg Brenninger: Dietelskirchen, a rare example of church art nouveau . In: Der Storchenturm, 1980, issue 30, pp. 64–71
  • Michael Andreas Schmid: Modern baroque and style imitators. Sacred neo-baroque and monument preservation re-baroque in the diocese of Augsburg . Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8316-0670-2
  • AKL , vol. 33, p. 399
  • Church leaders The churches of the parish Seyboldsdorf . Egglkofen 2004, p. 23.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address and business manual for the city of Pfarrkirchen and the markets in Vilsbiburg and Triftern 1925
  2. ↑ Gabi Schwarzhölzl, Barbara Wimmer: Shepherds and pomp tents. The Vilsbiburger Bergkripperl in the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf . Eichendorf Verlag, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-930648-30-X , pp. 13, 15-19 and 28.
  3. ↑ Peter Käser: Stadtpfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt Vilsbiburg Attenkofer Verlag, 2006, p. 138, note 214; Illustration p. 139
  4. ^ Peter Käser: Stadtpfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt Vilsbiburg Attenkofer Verlag, 2006, p. 193
  5. ↑ http://www.dorf-binabiburg.de/readarticle.php?article_id=88&y=2010&m=3
  6. ↑ Pauluszell
  7. ↑ http://www.gemeinde-bodenkirchen.de/geschichte/Bonbruck/pfarrkirche-maria-himmelfahrt2.htm
  8. ↑ Festschrift
  9. ↑ with design drawings for the new building planned in 1936.
personal data
SURNAME Elsner, Joseph junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elsner, Josef jun.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, church decorator and decorative painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1970
Place of death Ottobrunn