Caspar Jele

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Self-Portrait, 1853

Caspar Jele , also Kaspar Jele (born January 5, 1814 in Freitzberg, municipality of Ried im Oberinntal ; † December 17, 1893 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian painter and one of the most important representatives of the Nazarenes in Tyrol .

Life

Caspar Jele was born as a farmer's son in the hamlet of Freitzberg above Ried in the Oberinntal in simple circumstances. Since his artistic talent was shown in school, he became an apprentice to the peasant painter Hieronymus Schatz at the age of twelve . On the mediation of Josef Duile , who saw a picture of Jele during a visit to Ried, he came to Gebhard Flatz in Innsbruck as a pupil in 1831 . From 1834 to 1838, thanks to a state scholarship, he attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , where he studied with Johann Ender and Josef Redl the Younger , among others . He was particularly influenced by Leopold Kupelwieser and Joseph von Führich .

From 1856 to 1884 he was a drawing teacher at the Realschule Innsbruck , from 1864 to 1876 he also taught at the trade school connected to the Realschule. In his spare time he worked as a painter. In addition to portraits, genre pictures and drafts for glass paintings , he mainly created religious pictures in the style of the Nazarenes, including altar leaves for 26 churches in Tyrol, but also those in Vorarlberg, Salzburg, Upper Austria, Carinthia and the USA. He received orders for portraits from several members of the imperial family, including the empresses Karolina Augusta and Maria Anna . On the occasion of his retirement, he was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit with the Crown in 1884 .

On April 21, 1839 Caspar Jele married Anna Kretschmer from Fulnek in Vienna . The couple had 8 children, including the art historian Albert Jele (1844–1900), who in 1874 became director of the Tyrolean glass painting establishment.

Works (selection)

Saint Joseph with baby Jesus , oil painting, 1848
High altar picture broadcast of St. Geistes , Innsbruck Hospital Church, 1844
  • Painting Der Sammelpater , Die Wildschützen (both 1841), self-portrait (1853), Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
  • Side altar paintings crucifixion and torture of St. Sebastian , Jenbach parish church , 1842
  • High altar painting Death of Saint Joseph , Schmirn Parish Church , 1843
  • High altar picture hl. Margaretha , Flaurling parish church , 1843
  • High altar picture broadcast of St. Geistes , Innsbruck Hospital Church , 1844
  • Side altar paintings Death of St. Joseph and St. Aloisius , Silz parish church , around 1850
  • High altar painting Adoration of the Magi , Nassereith parish church , 1852
  • Wall paintings, rosary chapels on the pilgrimage route to Maria Waldrast , 1853/54
  • Altarpiece angels present St. Clement the Tools of Torture , St. Clement Church, Cincinnati , 1854
  • Side altar paintings Responsory ds St. Antonius and Maria-Hilf, venerated by the Saints Bernhard, Franziskus, Dominikus and Lukas , Hofkirche Innsbruck , 1855
  • Altarpiece St. Karl Borromeo and Archduke Karl Ludwig in front of the Madonna , Chapel St. Karl Borromeo in Hochfinstermünz, 1855
  • High altar painting The Three Kings, paying homage to the Christ Child , Mittelberg parish church , 1857
  • Side altar paintings St. Johannes Nepomuk and St. Josef , Mils parish church near Imst , around 1860
  • Oil painting of the death of Josef , Pembaur's grave, Westfriedhof , Innsbruck, 1861
  • High altar picture handing over the keys to Petrus , parish church Kössen , 1861
  • High altar painting of the Assumption , Holzgau parish church , 1863
  • High altar painting Maria enthroned in the clouds , parish church Hopfgarten im Brixental , 1864
  • Sacrifice of Isaac , Trinity Church, Salzburg , 1865
  • High altar picture hl. Gotthard in front of the Madonna , Jerzens parish church , around 1865
  • Side altar pictures Coronation of Mary and St. Joseph with Baby Jesus and John the Baptist , Parish Church Nussdorf , 1866
  • High altar picture Crucifixion , seminary church Bressanone , 1869
  • High altar picture St. Magdalena , side altar pictures St. Sylvester and St. Sebastian and Joachim and Anna with their child , parish church St. Magdalena in Casies , 1875/76

literature

Web links

Commons : Caspar Jele  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Hammer: The palaces and civil buildings of Innsbruck. Art history guide through the buildings and monuments . Hölzel, Vienna 1923, p. 200–206 ( tugraz.at [PDF; 1.4 MB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Jele, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jele, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Ried in the Upper Inn Valley
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1893
Place of death innsbruck