Max Domenig

Max Domenig (born September 3, 1886 in Obervellach im Gailtal , † February 27, 1952 in Hallein ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Max Domenig was born as the first of nine children in Oberfellach near Hermagor. His father ran a small farm and a cabinet maker. He graduated from the technical college for wood industry, in the training area carpentry and wood carving, in Villach . Then he attended the arts and crafts school of the K. u. K. Austrian Museum for Art and Industry , specialty class sculpture. His teachers were Hermann Klotz , Franz Barwig and Alfred Roller .

He then worked in a joint studio with Wolfgang Wallner in Vienna until 1913 . During this time the contacts with Richard Teschner began . For his puppet theater he carved figures and the “Golden Shrine”, which also created a connection to the Wiener Werkstätte .

In 1913 Domenig moved to Hallein to work for Jakob Adlhart the Elder. Ä. (born 1871) to head the " Halleiner Workshops for Church Art and Applied Arts " in Hallein, in the Cordon House in the Burgfried district. During this time Jakob Adlhart d. J. (1898–1985) trained as a sculptor in his father's business. In February 1915 Domenig and Adlhart d. J. drafted for military service in the First World War.

In 1919 Domenig married the hatmaker's daughter Maria Leiseder from Hallein, the birth of 3 children followed and the acquisition of the giant farmer's loan above Hallein on Dürrnbergstrasse. Domenig set up his sculpture workshop in the former lime kilns on the property, in the immediate vicinity of the structural remains of Sulzeneck Castle , where he worked as a freelance sculptor in Hallein until the end of his life in 1952.

“... Despite the difficult economic situation, Domenig received numerous orders, which he soon could no longer fulfill on his own. He hired students and employees, including Hans Baier , Franz Budig, Karl Wiedlroither, Othmar Jaindl and Alois Reiter. Journeyman from Val Gardena also come to Domenig's workshop. ... ""

Max Domenig was a founding member of the Tennengau Art Community , which began its activities in 1947 and promoted and shaped regional art until the 1960s. Other founding members were Jakob Adlhart the Elder. J., he was elected President, Hans Baier and the architect and painter Ernst Schreiber.

Works (selection)

Altar Silent Night Chapel in Oberndorf near Salzburg , upper relief by Hermann Hutter (1915), lower reliefs, right and left, by Max Domenig (1936) and middle relief by Franz Budig

Domenig's work mainly comprises wooden sculptures; 390 works are listed in the incomplete catalog raisonné.

• 1907: Wooden crucifix of the Maria Thurnkirche in Hermagor
• 1921: Bronze bust of Georg Essl in the Hermagor cemetery
• 1927: Altar in the memorial chapel on the Plöckenpass (with Johann D.).
• 1936: Predella relief in the Silent Night memorial chapel in Oberndorf near Salzburg
• 1937: Carved figures in the hospital chapel in Wörgl
• Statue of Judas Thaddäus in the parish church in Hallein
• Madonna in the school sisters chapel in Hallein
• Sculptures on the Leiseder tomb in the Hermagor cemetery
• Figurative iron relief, Carinthian volunteer rifle memorial in Klagenfurt , Mießenaler-Str.
• Marble soldier memorial in Launsdorf
• High altar statue in the Untervellach branch church
• War memorial in Waidegg

literature

• Robert Wlattnig: Domenig, Max . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 28, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22768-X , p. 412.

Web links

• Exhibition of academic sculptor Max Domenig
• 1 View of Hallein 1994 [1]
• 1 View of Hallein 2001 [2]
• 1 View of Hallein 2011 [3]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Moosleitner: Hallein - Portrait of a small town. Edited by the townscape protection commission of the city of Hallein. Hallein 1989, p. 160.
2. ^ Fritz Moosleitner: Hallein - Portrait of a small town. Edited by the townscape protection commission of the city of Hallein. Hallein 1989, p. 164.