Konrad Honold
Konrad Honold (born July 6, 1918 in Weingarten , Württemberg ; † June 23, 2007 in Schruns , Vorarlberg ) was a painter, restorer , graphic artist and heraldist living in Schruns .
Career
His artistic talent showed him the professional path very early on, when he began his apprenticeship in the Waibel painter's workshop in Ravensburg at the age of 14 . After his apprenticeship as a painter, he studied at Toni Kirchmayr's (1887–1965) painting school in Innsbruck and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.
He got to know the Montafon in 1937 and in 1945, after his marriage to Huberta Juen, he settled in Schruns in Austria and worked there as a painter and restorer. In his studio on Montjola he created many panel paintings as well as the designs for countless wall paintings in a wide variety of techniques - sgraffito , fresco , plaster cut, glass and marble cut mosaic as well as concrete and lead glass painting .
The dominant area in Honold's work is sacred art. He processed religious themes on facade paintings, included them as a central motif in his war memorials and dealt with Christian iconography as a restorer of many church rooms. Konrad Honold also continued the tradition of church painters through independent creations. For example, he created the ceiling fresco “Vorarlbergia Sankta” in the St. Anna Chapel in Lingenau (1968) and he designed the choir arch in the Rankweil pilgrimage church (1962). He also designed stations of the cross for various churches in Vorarlberg and in neighboring countries. Honold also received major national orders, such as in Linz, Bruneck and Vienna ( Sofiensäle ).
From 1973 to 1979 Konrad Honold was chairman of the Montafon Heimatschutzverein . It is thanks to his initiative that the local history museum is not housed in a new building, but in its current location, in an old Montafon house.
Konrad Honold died on June 23, 2007.
Awards
- 1980 Gold Medal of the Academia Italia delle Arti e del Lavoro
Works
Restorations
The most important restorations include paintings by Angelika Kauffmann and the portrait “Emperor Maximilian with insignia” by Bernhard Strigel (Maximilianeum in Innsbruck) as well as church restorations in Bludenz , Braz, Dalaas, Gargellen , Gaschurn, Lingenau and Schruns .
heraldry
Konrad Honold was a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists and also made a name for himself as a heraldist . He designed 45 coat of arms documents for the Vorarlberg state government and was commissioned to design 33 Vorarlberg municipal coats of arms . These include the coats of arms of Langenegg and Sibratsgfung , as well as the following communities:
| place | coat of arms | Awarded | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bartholomäberg |
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1969 | The coat of arms is divided into thirds of black, white and red.
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| Bürserberg |
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1969 | In the blue shield below a black three-mountain and in the middle of the shield a silver ibex head. |
| Doren |
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1969 | In the silver shield two oblique blue wavy bars, above a black deer pole. |
| Eichenberg (Vorarlberg) |
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1969 | It is described in the certificate as follows: "In black over a silver three-mountain, a silver oak branch with four leaves and three golden acorns." |
| Frastanz |
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1969 | The symbol of the horn is reminiscent of a legend that is said to have taken place on the occasion of the bloody battle of Frastanz in 1499: A shepherd boy on Amerlügen is said to have noticed a detour and unexpectedly approaching detachment of the Confederates and to warn his compatriots with his horn until he fell dead to the ground. The sun in blue shows that it belongs to the Sonnenberg rulership. |
| Fraxern |
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1969 | On a silver plate a hanging cherry branch with two horizontal green leaves and three red cherries. |
| Gaschurn |
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1966 | A shield split in silver and gold with a red curved tip, black crossed keys in front, a black water wheel behind and a silver halberd in the tip. |
| Göfis |
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1969 | In a split shield on the right in a golden field a green uprooted linden tree, on the left in a red field a nimbled king with a silver robe and silver cloak, golden crown, scepter and orb. |
| Lech (Vorarlberg) |
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1969 | A silver wave bar splits blue from red. In the front blue field a golden sun, in the rear red field on a black three-mountain a black fir tree. |
| Ludesch |
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1968 | In the divided shield above two blue cloud bars on a silver background and below a black rafter running downwards on a gold background crossed by a horizontal black bar. |
| Möggers |
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1970 | The image of St. Ulrich with a golden cloak, red miter and golden crosier in the right hand and a red Bible with a golden fish on the left hand. |
| Nenzing |
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1967 | The coat of arms shows two right-turned, red-armored and red-tongued, golden crowned (leoparded) lions. It is derived from the coat of arms of the knight family of the Lords of Ramschwag . |
| St. Gallenkirch |
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1966 | A shield divided into a cape cut, in front a monk figure clad in red (St. Gallus) in gold with a silver walking stick in his left hand and a silver bread in his right hand, in front of a small silver bear, behind in green a silver, black-covered church and below in black two crossed silver keys. |
| St. Gerold |
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1971 | The coat of arms refers to the settlement history of the community. It is split from white to blue. On the left on white we see the hermit Gerold. On the right of blue is an ibex looking to the left.
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| Sunday (Vorarlberg) |
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1967 | In a blue shield on a silver, red-bridled horse that bursts to the left, a rider in silver robe, golden armor and golden halo, who holds a silver sword in his right hand and in front of his chest a black shield covered with a silver ibex rising to the right . |
| Sulz |
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1968 | Sitting in green on a silver chair, a silver-clad count crowned with a browband, a staff in his right hand, the left propped up on his thigh. |
| Oversaxing |
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1969 | In red over a silver Dreispitzberg a golden sunshine. |
Selection of works on public buildings
- Community hall, Bartholomäberg (sgraffiti)
- Herrengasse 11, Bludenz (Baroque fresco "St. Mary with Child")
- Rathausgasse 8, Bludenz (hallway painting with "Themes on city history", after 1950)
- Jahnstraße 13/15, Bregenz (sgraffiti)
- Marianum, Bregenz
- Landesstraßenbauamt Feldkirch (marble cut mosaic "Building and Road Construction", 1965)
- Widnau 12, Feldkirch (natural stone mosaic)
- Elementary school, Gargellen (fresco "Schoolchild with Flowers", 1952)
- Municipal office, Gaschurn (sgraffito "Working People", 1954)
- Elementary school, Gaschurn (sgraffito "Family", 1954)
- Gasthof "Alte Post", Klösterle (fresco "St. Christophorus", 1959)
- Hermann Pfanner winery, Lauterach
- Semperithaus, Linz
- Post office, Lustenau
- Elementary school, Gortipohl (fresco "Schutzmantelmadonna", 1950)
- Community hall, Stallehr (facade painting "Ritter von Rudberg", "Diebschlößle ruins" and "Bergknappen", 1964)
- Sofiensäle , Vienna (no longer exist after the 2001 fire)
Selection of sacred works
- Church of St. Laurentius, Bludenz
- Cemetery, Gaschurn (fresco "Christ with dead soldiers", 1951)
- Kuratiekirche St. Maria Magdalena, Gargellen (fresco of St. Mary with child, 1958)
- Parish church hl. Fidelis, Muntlix (concrete glass window, 1960)
- Pilgrimage Church, Rankweil (choir arch, 1962)
- Parish church St. Gallus in Gattnau (near Kressbronn) (leaded glass window and Stations of the Cross, 1963)
- Chapel "Our Lady of the Rosary", Schlins / Jupident (concrete glass windows and various murals, 1963)
- Lingenau parish church (stained glass, 1963)
- Parish church of St. Jodok , Schruns (glass mosaic "St. George", 1965)
- Chapel of St. Anna on the field in Lingenau with the ceiling fresco “Vorarlbergia Sankta” (1968) and choir glass window
- Parish church Klaus (Evangelist symbols in notch cut on the parapet of the gallery; tabernacle and Easter candlestick with mosaic, 1971)
- Storage hall at the cemetery, St. Gallenkirch (concrete glass window and mosaic "Resurrected", 1972)
Exhibitions
- Ravensburg : Konrad Honold - Sepp Brauchle painting in the Old Theater , November 14th to November 28th, 1965
- Künstlerhaus Bregenz , Palais Thurn und Taxis , May 18 to June 10, 1979
- Vandans : Ad Fontanas Galleria , September 8 to December 1, 2006
- Weingarten : Stadtmuseum im Schlössle , an overview of the artist's life and work, September 26th to October 31st, 2010
- Montafoner Heimatmuseum Schruns : Special exhibition on the 100th birthday of the artist, December 16, 2018 to April 19, 2019
gallery
Youth (cube mosaic in horizontal rows, 1956)
Vase (clay, 1962)
Hands (monotype, 1970)
Publications
- with Association for Heimatschutz und Heimatpflege in Tirol (Ed.): An unknown portrait of Emperor Maximilian I by Bernhard Strigel. Tyrolean homeland sheets. 42nd year 1967. Issues 4–6.
- with Natalie Beer : Walther's Christmas carol. Novella. Written and illustrated by Konrad Honold. Print Sedlmayr, 1983.
- with Vorarlberger Verlagsanstalt (ed.): Quarterly publication for the past and present of Vorarlberg. Montfort. 42nd year 1990. Issue 2/3.
- Maria Schnee chapel - Gaschurn / Montafon. Art guide No. 1882. Schnell und Steiner publishing house.
- Gaschurn / Montafon. ISBN 978-3-7954-5600-9 .
literature
- Susanne Fink and Vorarlberger Landesmuseum (ed.): Art and construction in Vorarlberg since 1945. Bregenz 2003, ISBN 3-901802-15-0 .
- Vorarlberger Landesmuseum and Kunsthaus Bregenz (ed.): Fine arts in Vorarlberg 1945–2005. Biographical lexicon. Verlag Hämmerle, 2006, ISBN 978-3-902525-36-9 .
- Wilfried Dür: Konrad Honold - art in architecture and sacred works. Thesis. June 2006.
- Hans Jäger-Sunstenau: The heraldist Konrad Honold and his Vorarlberg municipal coat of arms. in: Adler - Journal for Genealogy and Heraldry, Volume 10 (1974–1977)
Web links
- Literature by and about Konrad Honold in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Konrad Honold died (August 25, 2007)
- ↑ Photos of beautiful old coats of arms
- ↑ Konrad Honold. Artist, restorer, collector.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Honold, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and restorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weingarten (Württemberg) , Baden-Württemberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 2007 |
| Place of death | Schruns |