Mathias Obermayr

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Two of the side altars created by Mathias Obermayr in the church of Windberg Monastery

Mathias Obermayr, also Matthias Obermayr (born May 14, 1720 in Meindling near Oberschneiding , † December 15, 1799 in Straubing ), was a Bavarian sculptor and plasterer .

Life

Mathias Obermayr came from the peasant class. The family's farm was located in Meindling, a district of Oberschneiding , on the southern edge of the Gäuboden . The family's history can be traced back to the Thirty Years War . Mathias Obermayr had twelve siblings who took up different professions: his brother Hans Michael inherited the farm and became a farmer, as did his brother Kaspar, who married on a farm in Großenpinning. His brother Philipp became a globetrotter and later a landlord in Hungary, two brothers became clergymen, one was a surgeon. Mathias probably began his apprenticeship as a sculptor around 1735, probably in Straubing with the sculptor and plasterer Simon Hofer. After his apprenticeship, Obermayr went on a hike, but in his years of hiking and apprenticeship he also came to Wessobrunn in Upper Bavaria , a center for artisans and plasterers.

On August 4, 1749, Mathias became a master, and on August 25, he married Maria Teresia Hundertpfund, widow of the Straubing sculptor Ignaz Hundertpfund, who died in 1747. He took over his workshop and house, which was located at Schmidlgasse 4. In the following years he became a leading sculptor in Straubing. The master also often traveled far, for example to half mile near Deggendorf . He left behind impressive works of high artistic value in Straubing, Gäuboden and the Bavarian Forest. Mathias Obermayr had no biological children, only one stepson, Josef Hundertpfund.

The change in style from Rococo to sober classicism had a negative impact on Obermayr. At the end of his long life, he became impoverished and died very poor. His grave in the Straubing Petersfriedhof ( St. Peter ) can no longer be found.

The spectrum of his artistic work ranges from epitaphs, figures and altars to imaginative stucco work in sacred and profane spaces. Most of the rococo facades in the city of Straubing on Ludwigsplatz (e.g. No. 10 and 28) and in Fraunhoferstraße (e.g. No. 5 and 23) owe their rich stucco, soaked with lively rocaille shapes, putti, flowers and tendrils his virtuoso hand.

Works

Straubing

  • Stucco facade on the patrician houses at Ludwigsplatz 21, 27, 28, and Fraunhoferstraße 13 and 15.
  • House chapels in the prayer sisters house in the Bürg, in the Haus zur Krone (today Volksbank) at Ludwigsplatz 21 (house chapel and stucco).
  • Basilica of St Jakob : pulpit stairs (1753), Nepomuk altar (1773) and altar of the baptistery (1791), St. Sebastian (1787)
  • St. Peter : Resurrection Christ (1750)
  • Hospital church: side altars (1784)
  • Pilgrimage church Sossau : (in the district of the same name): high altar (1777)
  • Azlburg Monastery : work in the monastery church, stucco (1787)
  • Guardian Angel Church: repair work on the tabernacle
  • Guild poles of the city of Straubing ( Gäubodenmuseum )
  • St. Veit: repair work

Works outside the city of Straubing in the Gäuboden and in the Bavarian Forest

  • Windberg Monastery : stucco work and the famous side altars in the monastery church (1755/1756)
  • Metten Monastery : stucco work in the cloister's ballroom (1755)
  • Oberalteich Monastery : tabernacle of the monastery church (1758/1759); Stucco work in the prelature
  • Oberhaselbach: pulpit (around 1760, purchased from Oberschneiding church in 1879)
  • Feldkirchen : side altars of the parish church (around 1760)
  • Stallwang : Parish church (1764/1765, 1786 and 1796)
  • Pilgrimage church in Halbmeile near Deggendorf : stucco, crucifix and organ prospectus (1782/1783)
  • Loh : Figures of Maria, Johannes on the high altar and stucco (1788)
  • Irlbach : Holy Sebastian
  • Schwarzach: stucco and antependium
  • Schambach: cemetery chapel, stucco altar
  • Atting : Putti in the cemetery chapel
  • West: pulpit
  • Pönning: crucifix
  • Mallersdorf Monastery : Altars
  • As well as numerous epitaphs in the city of Straubing and in the district of Straubing-Bogen

literature

  • Ina-Ulrike Paul: Obermayer (Obermaier), Matthias. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 555 ( digitized version ).
  • Eva and Karl Tyroller: Straubinger Hefte No. 26 . Cl. Attenkofer'sche book and art print, Straubing 1976.
  • Eva and Karl Tyroller: Mathias Obermayr, sculptor and plasterer , updated and supplemented new edition of the monograph from 1976 as an e-book, Edition FONTES AURIFERI Vol. 7, 190 p., 60 ills., Taufkirchen-Straubing 2019

Web links

Commons : Mathias Obermayr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Tyroller: Annual report of the historical association Straubing Volume 79 (1976), Straubing 1977, pp. 196-198.
personal data
SURNAME Obermayr, Mathias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Obermaier, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German plasterer and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Meindling
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1799
Place of death Straubing