Oswald Völkel

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Oswald Völkel's house in Graefelfing

Oswald Völkel (born January 6, 1873 in Schlegel , Neurode district , province of Silesia ; † July 12, 1952 in Graefelfing ) was a painter and fresco artist .

Life

Oswald Völkel came from an artistic family. After graduating from elementary school, he learned art painting from his father. After several artists from the Grafschaft Glatz had already worked successfully in Munich ( Wilhelm Hauschild and Alois Richter from Schlegel, Josef Zenker , Hieronymus Richter , Joseph Elsner and Paul Hoecker ) and people in Völkel's surroundings talked about Munich's art life with enthusiasm, it went well in 1894 Völkel there. In Munich he attended the Royal School of Applied Arts and then a private school. After completing his training, he initially worked on various ceiling paintings and altarpieces by other artists. He made copies of paintings for the art institutions in Berlin, Frankfurt and Zurich.

In 1904, Völkel started his own business with a studio in Munich. He subsequently created numerous ceiling paintings and altarpieces for churches, mainly on behalf of the Diocese of Augsburg . Individual paintings can also be found in Munich and Upper Bavaria. Stations of the Cross painted by Völkel came to England in 1909. In 1910 he created the altarpiece for the newly built Church of the Assumption in Bad Altheide . He restored Wilhelm Hauschild's pictures for his home village Schlegel. Most of his paintings and frescoes can be attributed stylistically to the neo-baroque .

Völkel was a member of the Munich Association for Christian Art . Shortly before the First World War, he built a villa for himself in Graefelfing near Munich at Grosostraße 10 , which is now a protected monument.

Works (selection)

Swabia

  • Aretsried , Parish Church of St. Pankratius: Paintings in the nave fresco (1906)
  • Bocksberg , Filialkirche Hl. Dreifaltigkeit und St. Leonhard : renovation of the frescoes (1924)
  • Buttenwiesen , Parish Church of the Holy Trinity: frescoes in the choir (1924)
  • Finningen , Parish Church of St. Mammas: Some of the ceiling paintings (1921)
  • Kellmünz an der Iller , parish church St. Martin : ceiling frescoes (1917–1918)
  • Langenreichen , parish church St. Nikolaus: frescoes (1920); St. Stephan cemetery chapel: frescoes (1920)
  • Leuterschach , St. Magnus pilgrimage church: renovation of the frescoes (1908–1909)
  • Maierhöfen , parish church St. Gebhard: gallery pictures (1910)
  • Margertshausen , Kuratiekirche St. Georg: Some of the pictures (1906)
  • Martinszell , parish church of St. Martin: paintings in the choir (1907–1908)
  • Oberbeuren , Parish Church of St. Dionysius Areopagita: frescoes (1920; together with Wilhelm Lessig )
  • Opfenbach , parish church St. Nikolaus: frescoes (1927)
    Ceiling painting in the parish church of Sulzberg
  • Ottacker , parish church St. Othmar: frescoes ( supplemented or repainted )
  • Rottach , Filialkirche St. Antonius: frescoes (1912)
  • Sulzberg , parish church St. Trinitatis: frescoes (1919)
  • Unterbernbach , parish church St. Martin : nave frescoes (1918)
  • Ustersbach , parish church St. Fridolin: frescoes (1905–1906)
  • Forest , parish church St. Nikolaus: renovation of the frescoes (1915)
  • Waldberg , parish church St. Radegundis: frescoes (1916)

Upper Bavaria

  • Günzlhofen , parish church St. Margareth: ceiling painting “Transfiguration of St. Margaretha "(1931)
  • Hohenzell , Filialkirche St. Stephan: ceiling painting (1928)

Silesia

County of Glatz

  • Altheide-Bad , Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary: frescoes, altarpieces, pictures of the Stations of the Cross (1910)
  • Niederhannsdorf , Parish Church of St. John the Baptist: Stations of the Cross (1905)
  • Schlegel , branch church of Maria Sorrento on the Allerheiligenberg: with his father Joseph renovation of the frescoes and the Stations of the Cross (1903), originally painted by Wilhelm Hauschild

literature

  • Festival of the Association for Christian Art in Munich . Munich 1910, p. 168
  • Joseph Wittig : Chronicle of the community Schlegel , ed. from the home community Schlegel, self-published Hattingen / Neuss 1983, pp. 597-599
  • Dehio Bayern III - Swabia
  • Dehio Bayern IV - Munich and Upper Bavaria

Web links

Commons : Oswald Völkel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the occasional statement that Völkel also studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts could not be found in the AdBK register books
personal data
SURNAME Völkel, Oswald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voelkel, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and fresco artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlegel , District of Neurode , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1952
Place of death Graefelfing