Leopold Kiesling

Leopold Kiesling (also Kissling and / or Kißling) (born October 8, 1770 in Schöneben , Upper Austria ; † November 26, 1827 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor of classicism who worked as an imperial court sculptor for the Viennese court, the local aristocracy and the wealthy bourgeoisie was active.

Live and act

He was only 10 months when his father, a simple glass merchant, decided to relocate to Vienna with the entire family. When he was 14 years old, his father died. He had to learn the carpentry trade, as four underage siblings and his mother could not go to school again. From the age of 21 he worked as a carpenter's journeyman with the Viennese sculptor Joseph Straub, later with Joseph Schrott and also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Professor Johann Martin Fischer . There he was noticed by Count Philipp von Cobenzl , who sent him to Rome in 1801 together with Peter von Nobile and Josef Abel as a scholarship holder of the Vienna Academy. Here he worked in the circle of Johann Christian Reinhart , Antonio Canova and Joseph Anton Koch , whose sister-in-law he married in 1809. Canova helped him get the imperial commission of the marble group Mars, Venus and Amor , which Emperor Franz I commissioned on the occasion of his daughter's marriage to Napoleon I and which he had installed in the Upper Belvedere of his palace. He became k. and k. Appointed court sculptor and died at the age of 57.

Works

Mars and Venus with Cupid

• Mars and Venus with Cupid , Rome, 1808–1810, selected by Emperor Franz I , Baroque Museum Vienna
• Gravestones for Philipp von Cobenzl , 1809, and his cousin Johann Ludwig von Cobenzl , 1810, in the Sankt Marxer Friedhof in Vienna
• Bronze bust on a marble base of Archduke Johann from 1812/13 in the Old Joanneum
• Bust of Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon in the Walhalla , 1813
• Tomb for Friedrich von Ostein-Dalberg at Dačice Castle , 1815–1820
• Portrait bust of Emperor Franz I from 1817, Carinthian State Museum
• Tomb for Baroness Fanny von Arnstein (1758–1818) in the Jewish cemetery in Währing in Vienna
• Classicist marble bust of Giorgio Bogdan Moldavo in the stairwell of the Palais Dumba in Vienna, 1819
• Bronze bust of Count Attems (1746–1820) from 1824 for his monument in Rogaška Slatina
• Tomb for Johann Peter Frank , 1822 (today in the Central Cemetery, Group 32A)
• Cast iron bust of Archduke Johann of Austria from 1825/26, in Zidani Most , destroyed in the Second World War
• Statue of Psyche in lead cast, border castle between Moravia and Lower Austria in Lednice
• Design for a larger than life statue of Franz I at Ernstbrunn Palace

Web links

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kiesling, Leopold . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 11th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, pp. 256–259 ( digitized version ).
• Walk through the studios of local artists: The workshop of the deserved court statue, Leopold Kisling. In: Archives for Geography, History, State and War Art. Twelfth year, January 1821, p. 155.

literature

• Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon. Part 7, 1839
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kiesling, Leopold . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 11th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, pp. 256–259 ( digitized version ).
• Franz H. Blittersdorff: Sculptor Leopold Kiesling. For the 100th anniversary of the death of someone who has been forgotten . In: Linzer Volksblatt. 1927
• Kiesling, Leopold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 328.
• B. Hagen: The sculptor Leopold Kiesling, life and work. Diploma thesis, Institute for Art History, University of Vienna 1994
• Roswitha Sycha: Study of Viennese portrait busts around 1800. A contribution to classicism in Austria. Diploma thesis Vienna 2008

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leopold Kissling: Mars and Venus, Rome 1808-1810 ( Memento from September 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). LessingImages.com (accessed September 29, 2017).
2. ↑ Alexandra Smetana: funerary monuments of Viennese classicism. Vienna, 2008 (diploma thesis University of Vienna ), cat. 16 and 17 (PDF).
3. ^ Christian Steeb, Josef W. Wohinz: Archduke Johann in a portrait. In: Graz University of Technology. special. Special edition May 2009, p. 11 ( Memento of March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
4. ↑ Christian Quaeitzsch: Walhalla. Official leader. Munich 2017, p. 113.
5. ↑ Alexandra Smetana: funerary monuments of Viennese classicism. Vienna, 2008, cat. 27.
6. ↑ Landesmuseum Rudolfinum, tour of the collection ( memo from 23 August 2004 in the Internet Archive ).
7. ^ Palais Dumba, Vienna. Burgen-Austria.com (accessed September 29, 2017).
8. ↑ ^{a b} Sonja Žitko: The monuments in Slovenia dedicated to Archduke John of Austria. France Stele Institute of Art History (accessed September 29, 2017).
9. ↑ The statue of Count Ferdinand Attems. Dezela-celjska.si, accessed September 29, 2107.