Michael Andersag

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Michael Andersag (born September 30, 1799 in Pawigl near Lana , Tyrol ; † May 15, 1864 in Resaca , Gordon County , Georgia , Confederate States of America ) was an Austrian-American church and portrait painter who was named 64th in the American Civil War. year old Northern soldier was killed.

Life

Andersag, illegitimate son of Anna Andersag from Pawigl, initially apprenticed with a glazier in Merano and also attended Jakob Pirchstaller's drawing school (1755-1824). He then went to Graz , where he continued his education in geometry and drawing. He then attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1822 . He made his living as a drawing teacher. After two years of study, he received recognition from his academy in 1824 in the competition for the Reichel Prize for the image of St. Cäcilia sunk in the spirit . The picture ended up in the collection of the Tyrolean State Museum . After returning to Merano from 1825/1826 in Rome , where he stayed until 1834, he was able to perfect himself further in accordance with Nazarene ideals by means of a scholarship .

Side altar and votive picture Madonna after Raphael in the collegiate church Wilten (second picture from left, copy of Raphael's Madonna von Foligno )

In his home country he worked as a church and fresco painter. For the parish church in Marling he created the altarpiece Coronation Mariae , for the collegiate church in Wilten from 1826 the donor image Madonna after Raphael , as well as a St. Norbert and a St. Augustin . He also created altar paintings for the parish church of St. Pankraz in Ultental and for churches in Girlan , Meran and Völlan . He painted frescoes for the Salegg residence in Kaltern - Mitterdorf, among others . In addition, he worked as a portraitist, making commissioned portraits and portraits of popes.

With the plan to become a drawing teacher at the Polytechnic School of Williamsburg near Brooklyn, New York State , he boarded a ship in Le Havre in 1852 that took him to New York City until September 2 of that year . On September 14, 1853, he applied for US citizenship in the Onondaga County Authority . Then he continued to live unmarried and worked as a painter in Syracuse (New York) . He became a US citizen on October 7, 1857.

After the Civil War broke out in 1861 , he volunteered the following year - like many other men in his German-speaking community - as a volunteer in the United States Army and enrolled in the 149th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment , which Colonel led Henry A. Barnum (1833-1892) was recruited in September 1862 in Syracuse, where he was assigned as a private whose Company B under the command of Captain Nicholas Grumbach (1835-1912). Before he left Syracuse, at the age of 62, he decreed in a will that his savings and the proceeds from the sale of his paintings should go to the surviving widows and children of German soldiers from Syracuse during the Civil War.

He was in correspondence with the editor of the Syracuse Journal about the course of the war . There he reported that he had been temporarily captured in connection with the Battle of Chancellorsville while he and his people were marching to Richmond, Virginia , many of whom were killed, wounded or also captured in the fighting . Other battles he was involved in during the course of the war were the Battle of Gettysburg , the Battle of Chattanooga, and the Atlanta Campaign . He was reported missing on May 15, 1864 during the three-day Battle of Resaca, an operation of the Atlanta Campaign. He was pronounced fallen after a body that could be attributed to him was found that was burned beyond recognition. According to a report that appeared four years later in the Südtiroler Volksblatt , Andersag was first seriously wounded in a battle with others and then taken to a forest for safety, which, however, was set on fire by enemy forces in the course of further clashes, so that there all wounded perished in the flames.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Hölz ​​Stifter: Between Classicism and Nazarenes. An obituary for the 140th anniversary of Michael Andersag's death (1799–1864) . In: The Sciliar . Vogelweider, Bozen 2006, p. 34
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 64
  3. ^ Helmuth Öhler: Raffael in Wilten . In: Stift Wilten Aktuell , Volume 19, Issue 1/2016, p. 19 ( PDF )
  4. ↑ Onondaga County Civil War Units: 149th NY Vol. Inf. Reg. - Co. B , website in the portal web.cortland.edu , accessed on January 20, 2018
  5. ↑ Syracuse Journal , June 5, 1863 issue
  6. ↑ 149th New York Volunteer Infantry , website on web.cortland.edu , accessed January 20, 2018
  7. ↑ Südtiroler Volksblatt , issue No. 33 of April 25, 1868 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Andersag, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American church and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Pawigl near Meran , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1864
Place of death Resaca , Gordon County , Georgia , Confederate States of America