Paul Dax

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Paul Dax: Self-Portrait in Landsknecht Costume, around 1530

Paul Dax (also Paul Tax ; * 1503 in Sterzing ; † 1561 in Innsbruck ) was a Tyrolean soldier, painter, glass painter and cartographer .

Life

Paul Dax was probably born in Sterzing in 1503 and came to Innsbruck in early youth. As captain of the Landsknechte , he fought from 1526 to 1529 in the Italian Wars near Rome and Naples as well as in the First Turkish Siege of Vienna . In 1546 he was involved in the recapture of the Ehrenberg Fortress from the troops of the Schmalkaldic League.

From 1530 Dax worked as a painter in Innsbruck and learned the craft of glass painting, probably in the workshop of Wolfgang Vitl in Hall in Tyrol, which was founded in 1534 . He often worked for the Innsbruck court, for which he painted paintings, flag images and coats of arms. From 1537 to 1540 he made glass paintings for the Innsbruck council chamber and the Hofburg . In 1539, he became a citizen to Innsbruck, 1550 appointed him Ferdinand I to the court painter . 1555 he painted together with his sons, the armory from.

From around 1540 Dax was also active as a surveyor and cartographer. He made maps of the state borders in the Achental , Brandenberg , Kufstein and Lower Austria as well as reliefs of fortifications. Dax is said to have also worked on a map of the entire state of Tyrol. This map is lost or, more likely, never completed. His unprinted maps, along with other Warmund Ygl, served as a template for his Tyrol map published in 1605.

Paul Dax married the sister of court glazier Urban Delchinger in Innsbruck in 1530; the couple had two sons. One of them, Kaspar Dax († 1565), as well as the grandsons Paul and Christoph Dax and the great-grandson Christoph Dax (* 1622), were also active as painters in Innsbruck.

Honors

Bust on the facade of the Ferdinandeum

The Daxgasse in the Innsbruck district of Hötting was  named after Paul Dax . On the facade of the Tyrolean Provincial Museum Ferdinandeum , completed in 1884, you can find his portrait head created by Antonio Spagnoli together with those of other famous Tyrolean artists.

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Dax  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Bacher, Günther Buchinger, Elisabeth Oberhaidacher-Herzig, Christina Wolf: The medieval glass paintings in Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg . Böhlau, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77653-6 , pp. LXXI .
  2. ↑ Wilfried Beimrohr: Warmund Ygl and his map of Tyrol. Archive & Source 32, Tiroler Landesarchiv, Innsbruck 2008 ( PDF; 3 MB )
  3. ^ City of Innsbruck, Department of Statistics and Reporting (ed.): Street names of the state capital Innsbruck. Innsbruck 2013, p. 18 ( PDF; 274 kB )
  4. ^ Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum: Façade of the Ferdinandeum, 1884
personal data
SURNAME Dax, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tax, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soldier, painter, glass painter, cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1503
PLACE OF BIRTH Sterzing
DATE OF DEATH 1561
Place of death innsbruck