Karl Selb

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Self-portrait by Karl Selb - Museum in the Green House Reutte.
Nave fresco in the parish church in Häselgehr (1806). A picture by Martin Knoller served as a template.

Karl Selb (actually Martin Christian Karl Selb, also Carl Selb; born November 12, 1760 in Stockach, today part of the municipality of Bach , Tyrol ; † June 15, 1819 in Stockach) was an Austrian painter.

Life

His parents Thomas and Maria Katharina Selb (née Kropf) ran a farm and had a total of twelve children. Selb first learned from Johann Jakob Zeiller in Reutte. Perhaps Josef Anton Schueler, a painter from the Lech Valley, was his first teacher. He did not continue his education until he was 39. Together with his brother Josef Anton Selb, who was 24 years his junior, Karl Selb attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1799 to 1801 . After a stopover in Tyrol, he worked in Munich from 1806 until he finally returned to his homeland through the events of 1809 and the Tyrolean struggle for freedom against Bavaria and France. In addition to church commissions, Selb also painted portraits of members from important families in the Lechtal, with which he earned his living. These pictures are especially interesting because they document Lechtal costumes from the early 19th century. He is considered a typical representative of classicism. His most important student was the lithographer and local researcher Johann Anton Falger (1791–1876).

Works (selection)

Frescoes

  • Bach - Parish Church (1792): frescoes, destroyed by an earthquake in 1865 (only choir frescoes preserved)
  • Häselgehr - parish church (1896): complete fresco decoration (together with his brother Josef Anton, main fresco is a copy by Martin Knoller )
  • Lampferding - Church (1803): complete cycle of frescoes with symbols of the Virgin Mary (also by Martin Knoller)

Altar leaves and paintings

  • Bach - parish church (around 1795): three altar leaves
  • Breitenwang - parish church (1809): side altar sheets (St. Sebastian and Holy Family)
  • Elmen - Parish Church (1814): former high altar sheet with adoration of the Magi
  • Hägerau - Church (1819): Left side altar sheet with St. Sebastian (copy by Breitenwang)
  • Häselgehr - parish church (1813): high altar sheet with St. Martin
  • Innsbruck - Tyrolean Folk Art Museum (before 1819): Tyrolean Folk Art Museum: portraits of Josef Anton Falger with family, Maria Johanna Falger and Johanna Falger
  • Reutte - Museum in the Green House: self-portrait, portrait of the parents, copy of a Madonna with baby Jesus
  • Stanzach - Expositurkirche: 14 stations of the cross, former high altar sheet (lost)

literature

  • Josef Ringler: Self-portraits Ausserferner painter. In: Ausserferner book. Innsbruck 1955, pp. 317-319.
  • Gert Ammann: The mobility of the Ausserferner painters and sculptors. In: Tyrolean Swabians in Europe. Exhibition catalog Reutte 1989, pp. 400–441
  • Klaus Wankmiller: Karl Selb - from farmer's son to sought-after painter. For the 250th birthday of the Stockach artist. In: Extra Verren - Yearbook of the Museum Association of the Reutte District. Volume 5, 2010, pp. 163-171.
  • Klaus Wankmiller: Karl Selb - a painter from Stockach. For the 250th birthday of the Lechtal painter. In: Tiroler Heimatblätter. Volume 86, 2011, No. 1, 38-39.
  • Klaus Wankmiller: Supplements to the catalog raisonné by the Stockach painter Karl Selb. In: Extra Verren - Yearbook of the Museum Association of the Reutte District. Volume 8, 2013, pp. 33-48.
  • Klaus Wankmiller: The family of the painter Karl Selb (1760 - 1819) and newly discovered works. On the 200th anniversary of the death of the Stockach artist, in: Extra Verren - Yearbook of the Museum Association of the Reutte District 14 (2019), pp. 137–166.
  • R. Lipp:  Selb, Karl; actually Martin Christian Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 150 f. (Direct links on p. 150 , p. 151 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year of birth is clearly 1760 and not 1774, as can be read in older literature. Entry in the baptismal register of the Elbigenalp parish.
  2. ↑ Wankmiller (2019), pp. 139–150, lists grandparents, parents and siblings and their fate in detail.
  3. ↑ Wankmiller (2019), p. 151.
  4. ↑ Wankmiller (2013), 35-42.
  5. ↑ Wankmiller (2013), pp. 33–35.
  6. ↑ Wankmiller (2019), p. 156.
  7. ↑ For details see Wankmiller (2019), pp. 156–158.
personal data
SURNAME Same, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Selb, Carl; Selb, Martin Christian Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockach, today part of the municipality of Bach , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1819
Place of death Stockach, today part of the municipality of Bach , Tyrol