Joseph Haid

Joseph Anton Haid (born May 17, 1801 in Langtaufers , † November 4, 1858 in St. Johann in Tirol ) was an Austrian sculptor of classicism.

Gravestone of Joseph Haid in St. Johann in Tirol

Pietà in the St. Nikolauskirche Weitau near St. Johann in Tirol

St. Virgil at the altar of the parish church in Kirchdorf in Tirol

Life

Joseph Anton Haid was born on May 17th, 1801 in Langtaufers, Graun im Vinschgau , the son of the innkeeper Anton Haid and his wife Elisabeth, née. Lechthaler born.

In 1819 he began his apprenticeship with the Kufstein sculptor and painter Sebastian Defregger, who gave him half a year of the required apprenticeship and reduced his apprenticeship fee of 30 guilders “because he has a lot of talent”.

From 1826 Haid attended the sculpture class at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . The talented art student was granted an annual scholarship of 100 gulden imperial currency in two installments from the National Museum Innsbruck after submitting the certificates. According to contemporary reports, he also studied at the Academy in Vienna and worked as both a sculptor and a painter.

In 1829 Josef Haid settled in St. Johann in Tirol to work as a freelance artist. Very soon he acquired the reputation as an “outstanding artist”, as a “good sculptor”, as a “well-known sculptor in the artistic world”, as a “skillful artist from St. Johann” and as a “Tyrolean master”, probably also because he met the classic taste of his contemporaries as a response to the long baroque era.

Haid was the teacher of the sculptor Joseph Fuchs from Hopfgarten im Brixental, who went to the art academy in Munich after his apprenticeship.

Josef Haid died on November 4, 1858 in St. Johann in Tirol of leg damage after being seriously ill for a long time in the poor hospital. He was buried three days later in the St. Antoniusfriedhof. His tombstone on the wall of the Antonius Chapel bears the inscription: “Monument to the first artist sculptor in Tyrollo Joseph Haid - he died on November 4, 1858 after patient suffering in the 54th year of life (sic!). Let us cover the mantle of Christian love over the famous artist and his faults, his bones modern in cool earth; but on the day of completion it will certainly be revealed what seemed dark to us. "

plant

• Crucifix, Bergheim near Salzburg - parish church
• Statue of the good shepherd, reclining baby Jesus (attributed to Fieberbrunn parish church )
• Gravestone with a figure of St. Peter for Vicar Peter Dörfler (not preserved), Hopfgarten im Brixental
• Relief: Moses in the desert raises the brazen serpent, Innsbruck - Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
• Altars and pulpit reworked in a classical style, Kaprun - parish church
• Repair of the two side altars, pulpit with plaster figures of Christ, Moses, Peter and Paul, high altar with statues Rupert, Virgil, Petrus and Magdalena, top figures of the confessionals, angels at the tabernacle, reclining Jesus child for the crib, parish church in Tyrol
• Crucifix, Kössen - Kalvarienberg
• John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, Rupert and Virgil (the latter two have not survived), organ case (not preserved), church pulpit (not preserved), Saalfelden - parish church
• Statue of the Immaculate Conception (not preserved), Salzburg - Franciscan Church
• Crucifix in the Antonius chapel, twelve statues of apostles on the gallery parapet of the deanery parish church, 4 evangelists and 4 church fathers for the high altar of the deanery parish church, St. John on the cover of the baptismal font of the deanery parish church, Pietà on the left side altar of the St. Nicholas Church in the Weitau, bas-relief of the St. Nicholas Church in the Weitau at the Schellhornhaus on the main square (attributed), tomb for Dean Georg Margreiter (not preserved), St. Johann in Tirol
• Crucifix (not preserved), Söllheim near Hallwang - pilgrimage chapel of St. Anthony

literature

• Helmuth F. Schodl: Praised early, forgotten early - the sculptor Josef Haid , Between Kaiser, Kalkstein and Horn, Local History Contributions of the Museum and Culture Association Sankt Johann in Tirol, No. 9, 2006