Joseph Schöpf
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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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.
- Frescoes in the Sanctuary of Genazzano (1777)
- Christ on the Cross , altar painting for the church in Genazzano (1777)
- Altarpiece St. Georg , Obermieming branch church (around 1780)
- Holy Family and St. Antonius , church in Zinggen near Brixen (1781/82)
- Ceiling frescoes of the St. Matthäus monastery church in Asbach (1784)
- Self-portrait , Tiroler Landesmuseum Innsbruck (1785)
- High altar hll. Jakob and Alexius , parish church in Innsbruck (1786–89)
- Ceiling frescoes and high altar baptism of Christ for the parish church in St. Johann im Ahrn (1786/87)
- Altarpieces Baptism of Christ and Mary , parish church in Klausen (1792)
- Ceiling frescoes in the parish church in Kaltern (1792/93)
- Ceiling frescoes Lintel of St. Johannes Nepomuk in the nave and allegorical representation of the virtues of St. Johannes Nepomuk in the vestibule, Johanneskirche in Innsbruck (1794)
- Ceiling frescoes and high altar St. Martin in the parish church in Brixen im Thale (1795/96)
- Ceiling frescoes in St. Peter in Villnöß (1798)
- Ceiling fresco in the Holy Blood Chapel in Stams (1800/01)
- Dome fresco in the Antonius Chapel in St. Johann in Tirol (1803)
- Ceiling frescoes in the parish church of Reith im Alpbachtal (1805)
- Ceiling frescoes in the parish church in Wattens (1810)
- Ceiling frescoes in the Servitenkirche in Innsbruck (1818-20)
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
- Gertrud Pfaundler-Spat: Tyrol Lexicon. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 978-3-7065-4210-4 , pp. 532-533.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schöpf, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 188–193 ( digitized version ).
- Ellen Hastaba: Schöpf, Josef (1745–1822), painter. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 102 f. (Direct links on p. 102 , p. 103 ).
- Peter Prange : Schöpf, Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 428 ( digitized version ).
- Hyacinth Holland : Schöpf, Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 352-354.
- Andrea Vegh: Conditions of the Austrian Scholarship System 1772–1783. The artistic training of a Rome scholarship holder, illustrated by the painter Joseph Schöpf . Inaugural dissertation, Munich 1975
Web links
- Tyrolean cultural area - drawings and sketches by Joseph Schöpf
- Inventory directory of the Austrian National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Hippler, Reinhard Rampold: The university parish and the university church on the Innrain. 2nd revised edition, Innsbruck 2013
personal data | |
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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 |