Karl Tyroller

Karl Tyroller: Brother Straubinger (1962), bronze sculpture on Steiner-Thor-Platz in Straubing

Karl Tyroller (born January 21, 1914 in Nandlstadt in the Upper Bavarian district of Freising ; † April 15, 1989 in Straubing ) was a German art educator , artist, art historian and researcher who made a contribution to the cultural life of the city of Straubing and its surroundings. His research has opened up new knowledge about its cultural treasures in the Altbayern region.

Live and act

education

Karl Tyroller first attended the monastery high school in Scheyern , then from the upper level the humanistic high school in Freising . He then studied art education and German studies at what was then the teacher training institute in Munich-Pasing . Military service and captivity, from which he did not return until the end of 1946, interrupted his professional career.

Working as a teacher, artist and author

Karl Tyroller, Sgraffito, THE HOMO HOMINI LUPUS, 1963

It was not until September 1947 that he was employed as a study assistant at the grammar school and high school in Straubing, which later became the Johannes Turmair grammar school . Until his retirement in July 1978 he shaped the art education at this school. He was one of the founders of the “Association of Fine Artists Straubing” in 1949 and its chairman until the end of his life. Every year he went public with this group in exhibitions, each summer and around Christmas time.

In addition to his commitment as a teacher, he was a pioneer in the research and presentation of the - especially sacred - art history of the city, the district and the region. He published his findings and research results in numerous monographs, newspaper articles, series of publications and individual publications.

A listing of all known writings Karl Tyrol Jewelers, along with a selection of his bemerkenswertesten individual studies, Alfons Huber presented on the occasion of his 100th birthday in issue 64 of the "series Straubinger books " together. Otto Schmidt followed him in the same year with a retrospective in the Straubinger Tagblatt, in which he classified and assessed the work of Karl Tyroller from a quarter of a century after his death.

In Straubing, two works commemorate the artist Karl Tyroller: The bronze sculpture of Brother Straubinger (1962) on Steiner-Thor-Platz and the impressive, warning sgraffito on the north gable of the youth center on Vogelauweg: HOMO HOMINI LUPUS (1963). At the upper edge of the picture it bears the inscription: "YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU ARE ABROWING FROM THE FLOOD IN WHICH WE FALLED, REMEMBERED WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT OUR WEAKNESSES, ALSO THE DARK TIMES THAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED" (quote from: Bertolt Brecht , To those born later).

research

Karl Tyroller is considered to be the discoverer and steward of the crib archive of the Marian Congregation and the initiator of the Straubing crib research and crib shows. His discovery of an ensemble of figures in the Aholmingen Church caused a particular sensation , which he identified as the work of Ignaz Günther , the most important Rococo sculptor in Old Bavaria. His monograph on the rococo sculptor Mathias Obermayr (1720–1799), which he published together with his daughter Eva, is considered the most comprehensive account of the life and work of the native Meindlinger (today a district of Oberschneiding).

Cultural policy

He was active in Straubing's cultural life for over 40 years and shaped cultural policy. He worked and fought, among other things, as an advisory board member of the cultural committee and city council for the preservation of cultural monuments and the careful design of public buildings.

family

He had eight children with his wife Klara (born Kainz, born January 22, 1920 in Straubing; † October 6, 2016 in Straubing), an art teacher at the grammar school of the Ursuline School Foundation in Straubing.

Publications (selection)

• with Adalbert Deckert: Exhibition on the 600th anniversary of the Carmelites in Straubing, guide through the exhibition , Straubing 1968, 27 pp.
• with Eva Tyroller: Mathias Obermayr, sculptor and plasterer , Straubinger Hefte No. 26, Straubing 1976, 87 p. with 52 full-page illustrations.
• with Eva Tyroller: Mathias Obermayr, sculptor and plasterer , updated and supplemented new edition of the monograph from 1976 as an e-book, Edition FONTES AURIFERI Vol. 7, Taufkirchen-Straubing 2019
• Sacred art in the Straubing area , Gäubodenmuseum Straubing, Sacred Art Department, ed. v. Cultural Office of the City of Straubing in cooperation with the Gäubodenmuseum Straubing, Straubing 1978, 8 pp.
• New news about the relationship between the Asam brothers and the Ursuline monastery and church , supplement to the 1976/77 annual report of the Ursuline high school in Straubing, Straubing 1977, 29 pages; 2nd, expanded edition, Straubing 1978, 41 pp.
• The biography of the venerable parish church of St. Peter in the old town of Straubing , Straubinger Hefte No. 29, Straubing 1979, 61 p. With 29 full-page illustrations.
• The Aholmingen high altar, a late work by Ignaz Günther? JB des Hist. Association for Straubing and the surrounding area 83 (1981), pp. 77-84.
• with Rudolf Kracher: Wallfahrtskirche Sossau , Schnell, Art Guide No. 853 (1966), 2nd, revised edition, Munich – Zurich 1986, 16 pp.
• The sculptor family Keller , Straubinger Hefte No. 37, Straubing 1987, 72 p. With 32 full-page illustrations.
• with Harry Stern: Straubing , Kleine Pannonia-Reihe, Freilassing 1988, 48 pp.
• with Alfons Huber: Klosterkirche Azlburg , Schnell, Art Guide No. 1729, Munich and Zurich 1988, 20 pp.
• Parish Altenthann. Heuweg, Lichtenberg, Schönfeld , Peda-Kunstführer No. 012.1 / 88, Münsterschwarzach – Passau 1988, 24 pp.
• The rococo painter Christian Thomas Wink (1738–1797), training and activity in Lower Bavaria , Straubinger Hefte No. 38, Straubing 1988, 62 p. With 28 full-page illustrations.
• with Hans Utz: pilgrimages in the diocese of Regensburg , new work. by Karl Tyroller, 2nd, revised. and exp. Edition (1981), Munich-Zurich 1989, 324 pp.
• The figures of the Aholmingen high altar, a presumed late work by Ignaz Günther , Ars bavarica 57/58 (1989), pp. 117–130.

literature

• Alfons Huber: Karl Tyroller (1914–1989): Art teacher, artist and researcher . In: Straubinger Hefte No. 64, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfons Huber: Karl Tyroller (1914 - 1989) art teacher, artist and researcher. Straubinger Hefte No. 64, 2014
2. ↑ Otto Schmidt: Memory of a great discoverer, Straubinger Tagblatt, Aug. 2, 2014