Maria Anna Moser
Maria Anna Moser (born August 5, 1758 in Schwaz ; † February 19, 1838 ibid) was an Austrian painter at the transition from Baroque to Classicism .
life and work
Maria Anna Moser was born as the daughter of the painter Bartholomäus (according to other information: Balthasar) Moser in Schwaz. She was trained by her father and was soon seen as more important than him. It is possible that she was also influenced by Josef Schöpf . She is said to have participated in the Tyrolean uprising in 1809 and portrayed several leaders. In the course of the fighting, she lost her property through fire and robbery and in old age was dependent on the support of the poor commission in her home town.
Moser's work includes religious images such as altarpieces, stations of the cross and devotional images on the one hand, and portraits on the other . Her religious works include an altarpiece of St. Franz Xaver in the parish church Steinberg am Rofan (1790), a painting Adoration of the Magi as well as the fasting images Man of Sorrows and Mother of Sorrows in the parish church Reith im Alpbachtal (1807), the Way of the Cross and the altarpiece Mocking Christ in the Schwazer hospital church (1822) as well as the picture Marriage of Mary in the sacristy of the parish church of Schwaz (1822).
She created numerous commissioned portraits, including for the Tannenberg family, abbots of the St. Georgenberg-Fiecht monastery and dignitaries from Schwaz. One of her best-known works is a portrait of Andreas Hofer "after nature", which is considered authentic and was widely distributed as an engraving. While the religious images are in the baroque tradition, the portraits have a classicist influence. In her late work, influences of Biedermeier naturalism can be seen .
More than 100 works by Moser are known, most of which are in churches, monasteries or privately owned. In 2002 an exhibition in the Rabalderhaus in Schwaz was dedicated to the artist. A street in Schwaz bears her name.
literature
- E. Egg: Moser, Maria Anna. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 389 f. (Direct links on p. 389 , p. 390 ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Moser, Maria Anna . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, p. 154 ( digitized version ).
- Leopold Pirkl: Maria Anna Moser. A contribution to the history of art in Tyrol. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum 3/54 (1910), pp. 366–372 ( PDF; 2.6 MB )
- Inge Praxmarer: “As if they wanted to take the glory of our superiority away from us.” Visual artists in Tyrol. In: Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (ed.): Panoptica. women.culture.tyrol. Innsbruck 2013, pp. 46–47 ( PDF; 16 MB )
- Sybille-Karin Moser: Tyrolean pictures and their representation in the fine arts: Painting in Tyrol 1830–1900. In: Paul Naredi-Rainer, Lukas Madersbacher (Ed.): Art in Tirol. Volume 2: From the Baroque to the Present (= Art History Studies - Innsbruck. NF Vol. 4). Tyrolia et al., Innsbruck et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7022-2775-3 , pp. 519-560 ( PDF; 1.1 MB )
Web links
- Women as artists - the painter Maria Anna Moser , kulturraumtirol.at
Notes and individual references
- ↑ according to other information (ÖBL): December 24, 1756
- ↑ Man of Sorrows and Mother of Sorrows - fasting pictures by Maria Anna Moser (1807) kulturraumtirol.at
- ^ A b Otto Larcher: On the exhibition Maria Anna Moser. Pictures by the Schwaz painter Maria Anna Moser in the Maria Himmelfahrt parish church and in the hospital church. In: Heimatblätter - Schwazer Kulturzeitschrift, No. 48 (2002), p. 18 ( PDF; 3.1 MB )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moser, Maria Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | black |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1838 |
| Place of death | black |