Max Gehri
Max Gehri (also Gheri ; born November 11, 1847 in Innsbruck , † February 6, 1909 in Mühlau ) was an Austrian painter and nativity scene carver .
life and work
Gehri, who comes from Innsbruck- St. Nikolaus , received his training from the master painter Fritz and at the trade school in Innsbruck. He learned from Franz Plattner in Zirl , whose assistant he was, the frescoes and in August of Wörndle the watercolors .
Gehri worked as a history , landscape and church painter in the style of the Nazarenes and created, among other things, frescoes in the Urfahrer Josefskirche (1884–1887, now whitewashed) and in the parish church of Schärding (1904–1906). Later he built cribs after models by Joseph von Führich and August from Wörndle, where he not only carved the Nativity figures and summed up , but also the Krippenberg and background designed.
literature
- Gehri, Max . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 338 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Gheri, Max. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 437.
- Meinhard Neuner: Christmas cribs in Zirl. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Volume 80 (2000), pp. 107–120 ( PDF; 5.3 MB )
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Thieme-Becker; according to ÖBL November 10th
- ↑ Misc. In: Linzer Volksblatt , February 9, 1909, p. 7 (online at ANNO ). ; according to ÖBL February 5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gehri, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gheri, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and nativity scene carver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1909 |
| Place of death | Mühlau |