Michael Drobil

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The monument to Josef Maria Pernter in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna from 1935.
The sculpture of a boy in front of the lupus pavilion of the Wilhelminenspital from 1932.

Michael Drobil (born September 19, 1877 in Vienna ; † September 12, 1958 there ) was an Austrian sculptor .

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Michael Drobil was born in Vienna on September 19, 1877 and, after completing his training as a sculptor, began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1897 with Edmund Hellmer . In his final year of study (1905) he came to Rome for a year on a scholarship . In later years he did his military service as a frontline officer in Italy during the First World War and was imprisoned for ten months towards the end of the war. From 1920 Drobil belonged to the Vienna Secession and from 1939 was a member of the Wiener Künstlerhaus . Among other things, he was awarded the "Golden Laurel" by the latter.

In 1921 he married his wife Hermine (1890–1976) and was awarded the Reichel Prize in the same year . In 1925 he also received a state award . Another five years later he succeeded Edmund Hellmer as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; In 1942 he was awarded the Raphael Donner Prize . In 1936 Riedl was involved in the art competitions of the 1948 Summer Olympics in the “Sculpture” category . In 1935 his first work was unveiled in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna , a portrait of Professor Josef Maria Pernter . Also in 1935, in the presence of the Upper Austrian Governor Heinrich Gleißner, a now listed war memorial was unveiled in Ried im Innkreis . Another monument for Eduard von Hofmann followed in 1947 and his third and last work in the Arkadenhof in 1954, which is intended to commemorate Max Hussarek von Heinlein . Throughout his life he was also involved in several major international exhibitions, including in Budapest in 1935 and at the Biennale di Venezia in 1936.

During the National Socialist era , Drobil was involved in the "Action: World War Monuments in Lorraine", which was launched on the initiative of the then Reich Governor of the West Markets, Josef Bürckel . In 1941 he was commissioned by the Künstlerhaus to make a plaster model of a war memorial for the municipality of Bolchen (today Boulay-Moselle in northeast France , not far from the border with Germany ). His artist colleague Rudolf Schmidt was subsequently commissioned with the preliminary examination and takeover of the completed plaster models in Vienna. The final execution was then determined personally by the Reich Governor at an exhibition of the models in Saarbrücken . It is not known whether the Drobils model was implemented. For another campaign, the “Action: People and Landscape of the Westmark”, the Viennese-born worked out a design by a Saarland farmer. This was realized as a sculpture with the title “(Der) Särmann” for the “Aktion: Die Schöne Westmark”.

In 1951, Drobil, who among other things had also created war figures on the course building of the war school of the Theresian Academy in Wiener Neustadt , moved into a state atelier in the Krieau (see also Federal Sculpture Ateliers ). Various other works by Riedl can still be found in urban housing in Vienna, as well as in other places in the federal capital. Four years later he was hit by a moped on Döblinger Hauptstrasse and injured. On September 12, 1958, a week before his 81st birthday, Drobil died in his hometown of Vienna.

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian week. In:  Mühlviertel news. Organ for the Christian citizen and farmer stand / Mühlviertler Nachrichten. Catholic-conservative weekly paper for the Mühlviertel / Mühlviertler Nachrichten. Catholic-conservative weekly paper for the Mühlviertel. (With illustrated entertainment supplement) / Mühlviertler Nachrichten (with illustrated entertainment supplement). Catholic weekly newspaper for the Mühlviertel / Mühlviertler Nachrichten / Mühlviertler Nachrichten with the illustrated entertainment supplement “Heimatland” / Mühlviertler Nachrichten with the richly illustrated supplement “Oesterreichische / Ostmark Woche” , July 5, 1935, p. 19 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / mvn, accessed on February 11, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Drobil, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1958
Place of death Vienna , Austria