Michael Stolz (sculptor)

Michael Stolz (born April 1, 1820 in Matrei am Brenner , † November 16, 1890 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian sculptor and draftsman .

Life

High altar, parish church Wels (1856)

Stolz received his first training from his father, who had previously worked as a wood carver in Vienna, and learned from 1835 with Franz Xaver Renn in Imst and from 1838 with Josef Klieber in Vienna. In 1839 he studied at the Royal Art Academy in Munich with Ludwig von Schwanthaler and Konrad Eberhard . In 1840 he returned to Vienna, where, under the influence of Joseph von Führich and Leopold Kupelwieser, he turned from classicism to religious art.

In 1848 he was drafted as a Wipptaler rifleman and took up as a standard bearer in the Matreier Compagnie des Hauptmanns v. Stadler took part in the Italian campaign . From 1849 he ran a studio in Innsbruck, from 1854 he worked as a drawing teacher at the newly opened Realschule , and at times also at the normal school, the Sunday school for tradespeople, at the grammar school . For eleven years, he taught drawing, modeling and wood carving at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Innsbruck. His students included Dominikus Trenkwalder , Franz Defregger , Franz Xaver Pernlochner , Aloys Denoth , Josef Blaas , Alois Winkler and Andreas Huter . Stolz had plans for a Tyrolean painting and sculpture school that were never realized.

In 1855, Stolz created a new high altar for the parish church of Wels , which attracted a lot of attention and subsequently earned him numerous commissions for church works. In 1867/68 he stayed in Rome on a government scholarship for study purposes , where he met the Nazarenes Friedrich Overbeck and Gebhard Flatz and familiarized himself with the forms of the Renaissance . In 1872 he traveled to Saxony , Mainz , Speyer , Strasbourg and Freiburg im Breisgau . When he retired in 1885, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order .

According to his Catholic worldview, Stolz was also active in politics and in social associations. He was a founding member of the Catholic-Political People's Association for German Tyrol, a member of the Patriotic Provincial Aid Association and a functionary of the Austrian Society of the Red Cross as well as a member of the Munich Association for Christian Art .

Pride mainly created religious sculptures and altars in neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque styles, as well as mosaic and window designs for the Tyrolean glass painting establishment . One of his main works is the renovation, painting and overall furnishing of the castle church in Wechselburg in Saxony, for which Carl von Schönburg, who converted to Catholicism, had commissioned him. Stolz also published works on art teaching and contemporary art and gave lectures, including at the theological faculty of the University of Innsbruck . In addition, he staged dramas and created living pictures for pageants. As a result of his own artistic development, he thought little of academic training and instead placed more emphasis on practical craft activities based on medieval models.

Works (selection)

St. Nikolaus, altar of the Ambras Palace Chapel (1866)

Gable frieze Art and Industry in Tyrol , Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum , around 1845 (removed in 1871 due to poor condition)
High altar, parish church of Wels , 1856
Altars of the parish church of Andelsbuch , 1862 (partially removed in 1974)
High altar and side altars, Parish Church of Pauli Conversion , St. Pauls, 1865
High altar and side altars, Platt parish church in Passeier, around 1865
Altar of the chapel in Ambras Castle , 1866
Redesign of the parish church of Axams , 1871–1879
Renovation and painting of the Wechselburg Castle Church , 1871–1884 (removed after 1945)
Design of the ceiling paintings, Monastery Church of Perpetual Adoration, Innsbruck, 1879–1880

literature

Ellen Hastaba: Proud Michael. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 318.
Constantin von Wurzbach : Proud, Michael . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 39th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1879, p. 174 ( digitized version ).
Hermann Arthur Lier: Proud, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 424 f.

Web links

Commons : Michael Stolz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Association for Christian Art in Munich (ed.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th year. Anniversary. Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, p. 101.
^ Michael Wetzel: Carl (Karl) Heinrich Wolf Wilhelm Franz Graf von Schönburg . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
↑ Ellen Hastaba: Program with coincidence and flaws - all-Tyrolean: the facade of the Tyrolean Provincial Museum Ferdinandeum. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landsmuseum Ferdinandeum, Volume 83 (2003), pp. 63–94 ( PDF; 13.2 MB )
↑ Helmuth Oehler: Saint Nicholas in an Imperial Ambience (1866) . In: Innsbruck informs, No. 12/2013, pp. 58–59 ( PDF; 606 kB )
^ Kronbichler, Wiesauer: Parish church hl. John the Baptist. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved April 2, 2016 .
↑ Schmid-Pittl, Wiesauer: Monastery Church for Eternal Adoration, Church Eternal Adoration. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved November 21, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Proud Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Matrei am Brenner
DATE OF DEATH	November 16, 1890
Place of death	innsbruck

[1] Association for Christian Art in Munich (ed.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th year. Anniversary. Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, p. 101.

[2] Michael Wetzel: Carl (Karl) Heinrich Wolf Wilhelm Franz Graf von Schönburg . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

[3] Ellen Hastaba: Program with coincidence and flaws - all-Tyrolean: the facade of the Tyrolean Provincial Museum Ferdinandeum. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landsmuseum Ferdinandeum, Volume 83 (2003), pp. 63–94 ( PDF; 13.2 MB )

[4] Helmuth Oehler: Saint Nicholas in an Imperial Ambience (1866) . In: Innsbruck informs, No. 12/2013, pp. 58–59 ( PDF; 606 kB )

[5] Kronbichler, Wiesauer: Parish church hl. John the Baptist. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved April 2, 2016 .

[6] Schmid-Pittl, Wiesauer: Monastery Church for Eternal Adoration, Church Eternal Adoration. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved November 21, 2016 .