Oswald Trapp

Oswald Raimund Trapp (full name until 1919: Oswald Raimund Graf Trapp von Matsch zu Pisein and Caldonatsch, shortened Oswald Trapp, Graf von Matsch , mostly as Oswald Graf Trapp; * September 17, 1899 in Innsbruck ; † March 2, 1988 in Volders in Tyrol) was an Austrian art historian and monument conservator .

Live and act

Oswald Trapp grew up on the Churburg , the ancestral seat of the noble Trapp family in South Tyrol . He studied art history at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck . In 1931 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . His dissertation dealt with the "Churburger armory". As early as 1930 he worked as a research assistant and then as a "specialist research assistant for the preservation of monuments in Tyrol" under state curator Josef Garber at the Federal Monuments Office. After Garber's death he was appointed as his successor. For budgetary reasons he only received this function on a voluntary basis. But when he wanted to leave the Federal Monuments Office, he was accepted into the scientific service in 1934 and made pragmatic in 1935 .

During the war years, Trapp was only used for short-term military services until 1943, but from 1943 onwards he had to enter regularly. During this time, he earned merit in protecting against the "threat to the movable and immovable, especially the church art property". From 1937 to 1946 he was also the director of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum . Until 1959 he was the state curator of Tyrol. His main interest was primarily in castle history. He died March 2, 1988 at Friedberg Castle near Volders.

Awards

• 1958 Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol
• 1980 Fritz Schumacher Gold Medal from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS
• 1981 honorary member of the South Tyrolean Castle Institute .

Publications (selection)

• The Churburg armory. Methuen, London 1929.
• The art monuments of Tyrol in need and danger. Report of the national conversator on the events in the years 1938–1945. Edited by Margarete Friedrich. Rohrer, Innsbruck 1947.
• Churburg, South Tyrol / Italy (= Small Art Guide No. 779). Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1963.
• (Ed.): Tiroler Burgenbuch. 8 volumes. Bolzano 1972–1989.

literature

• Johanna Gritsch (Ed.): Contributions to the history of art in Tyrol. Festschrift for State Conservator Dr. Oswald Graf Trapp on the occasion of the completion of the 60th year of life. (=  Sciliar scriptures 208). Innsbruck 1959 (pp. 160-168 list of publications).
• Walter Frodl : Councilor Dr. Oswald Trapp on his 70th birthday. In: Austrian Journal for Art and Monument Preservation 23, 1969, p. 220.
• Walter Frodl: Councilor Dr. Oswald Graf Trapp † . In: Austrian Journal for Art and Monument Preservation 61, 1987, pp. 177–179.
• Magdalena Hörmann: On the death of Landeskonservator a. D. Councilor Dr. Oswald Graf Trapp . In: Kulturberichte aus Tirol 335/336, 1988, pp. 51–52.
• Oswald Trapp. Castle researcher and monument conservator (1899–1988). In: Der Schlern 87, 2013, No. 3, pp. 4–105.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Award of the Fritz Schumacher Medal in gold, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine to Hofrat Dr. Oswald Graf Trapp Castle Friedberg / Tirol in Innsbruck on November 27, 1979, Hamburg 1979.
2. ^ Councilor Dr. Oswald Trapp Count von Matsch (1899–1988). Honorary member 1981–1988. In: Deceased Honorary Presidents and Honorary Members. Website of the South Tyrolean Castle Institute , accessed on January 17, 2020.

Web links

• Publications »Trapp, Oswald Graf«. In: Regesta Imperii (sources on the history of the empire). OPAC of the Academy of Sciences and Literature , Mainz.
• Trapp Oswald Councilor Dr. Count von Matsch 1899 Matsch, South Tyrol. In: Death pictures all of Tyrol (north, east and south). Christine Schwemberger (Ed.).