Lydia Roppolt
Lydia Roppolt (born March 17, 1922 in Moscow ; † November 28, 1995 in Vienna ) was an Austrian modern artist. Her main works are glass windows for churches. In addition, she also created frescoes , textiles, plastic objects, oil paintings and graphics .
Life
Lydia Roppolt was adopted by the teacher Emma Agnes Roppolt from Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Sergius Pauser , Albert Paris Gütersloh and Herbert Boeckl .
A decisive turning point in her work was when she won the competition for the glass window ribbon for the Bindermichl Church in Linz in 1955. A large number of orders for glass windows followed.
Roppolt belonged to the Benedictine lay community . She is buried in the Konradkirche in Oberwang , where she had her studio since 1970.
Works in Austria
- Carinthia
- Tapestry, stage curtain and a large wooden crucifix in the St. Georgen educational center on the Längsee
- Lower Austria
- Stained glass window in the chapel of the archiepiscopal boys' seminar in Sachsenbrunn in Kirchberg am Wechsel
- Frescoes in the youth chapel of the Episcopal Boys' Seminary in Melk
- 1960 Wall painting on the apex of the choir of a naive expressionist crucifixion group in the parish church of St. Johannes d. T. in Engstetten
- 1963 Glass painting in the seminar chapel in the grammar school and high school in Sachsenbrunn
- Mosaic of Christ in Emmaus and reliefs of the Cross in the parish church of Möllersdorf
- 1971 Concrete relief, tapestry, cross to the parish church of Winzendorf
Interior design of the Sierninghofen-Neuzeug parish church (1971)
- Upper Austria
- Glass windows, tapestries, floor carpets, crucifix, epitaph, burial chapel and organ in the Church of St. Konrad in Oberwang
- Stained glass window in the parish church of Kirchdorf an der Krems
- Stained glass window in the church of Lembach in the Mühlkreis
- Frescoes and carpets in the chapel of the Bildungshaus Schloss Puchberg near Wels
- Stained glass window and tapestry in the Christkönigkirche (Church of Peace) in Linz, 1961
- The good and the bad angels , glass window frieze 3 × 90 m, Linz-Bindermichl
- Meditation room in the Stiftsgymnasium Schlierbach
- Tapestry in the Tisserand rest home in Bad Ischl
- Stained glass window in the St. Aegyd branch church in Thalheim near Wels
- 1971 Crucifix and carpet in the Sierninghofen-Neuzeug parish church
- Glass window in the Pfandl parish church ("Maria an der Straße") in Bad Ischl
- Stained glass window in the parish church of St. Stefan am Walde (Mühlviertel, Upper Austria)
- Stained glass window in the Haid motorway church in Ansfelden
- Stained glass window in the parish church of Kleinreifling in Weyer
- Stained glass window in the parish church of Steyrling
- Picture "Annunciation" in the parish church Auwiesen (Linz)
- Establishment of the Sierninghofen-Neuzeug parish church
- Stained glass window in the chapel in the Attergau retirement home in St. Georgen im Attergau
- Salzburg
- Frescoes in the Marienkapelle of the St. Peter monastery in Salzburg
- Styria
- Stained glass window in the Münzgrabenkirche in Graz
- Vienna
- Family idyll , sgraffito , residential complex Vivariumstraße Vienna 2
- 1983: 7-part real antique glass wall, 120 m², parish church of the Divine Redeemer , Brigittenau, Vienna
- 22 glass windows in the Ruprechtskirche in Vienna
- 1959/60: Wall painting in the Trinity Chapel in the New Seitenstettener Hof on Franz-Josefs-Kai No. 29
Works abroad
- 14 stained glass windows, Assumption Church, Edmonton , Canada
- 49 stained glass windows, Basilica annuntiationis B. Mariae Virgnis, Nazareth , Israel
- 8 real antique glass windows, Convento S. Domenico, Neggio near Lugano , Switzerland
- Dance of Death , fresco, Taufers Castle , South Tyrol
Web links
Commons : Lydia Roppolt - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- www.lydiaroppolt.at
- Sepulcher chapel in the Konradkirche (picture)
- Literature by and about Lydia Roppolt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dehio Wien Innere Stadt 2003 , Franz-Josefs-Kai, No. 29: Neuer Seitenstettner Hof , p. 690
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roppolt, Lydia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1995 |
| Place of death | Vienna |