Philipp Schumacher (painter)

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Church, St. Xaver High School , Bad Driburg . Painted in 1929–1930
Philipp Schumacher: Mass in the catacombs (devotional pictures, issued by the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising, 1915)

Philipp Schumacher (born May 20, 1866 in Innsbruck , † October 21, 1940 in Munich ) was an Austrian painter who is considered a later Nazarene .

Live and act

He was the son of the Bolzano district court president Karl Schumacher (1822–1873) and brother of the Austrian National Council member Franz Schumacher (1861–1939). Philipp Schumacher received training at the Vienna Academy from 1888 to 1895 , where he attended the master class of the Nazarene successor Josef Mathias Trenkwald (1824-1897). He then worked in Rome until he moved to Berlin in 1900 and to Munich in 1906 . As early as 1899 he received the illustration commission for the 3-volume monumental work The Catholic Church of Our Time and its Servants in Word and Image , which the Austrian Leo Society published with the participation of the Roman prelate Anton de Waal and the historian Paul Maria Baumgarten, who also resided there . Schumacher also became known for fifty watercolors each for the paintings "The Life of Jesus" (1902) and "The Life of Mary" (1910). Then he received orders for altar leaves, Stations of the Cross and church paintings. For example, from 1929–1930 he painted the church of the St. Xaver high school (Bad Driburg) . He took on other jobs in Berlin, Altötting , Paderborn and Euchen .

In Munich there were a number of works that were largely destroyed: the altarpiece in the Clemens Church , the Way of the Cross in the Christ the King's Church and the war memorial image in the Wolfgang Church . In his native Tyrol there are only a few creations by him, such as the Marien cycle in the parish church Weerberg , the facade frescoes on the Gschwendterhof in Thaur and the facade mosaic on Innsbruck's Three Saints Church . He painted the 14 Stations of the Cross on copper panels for the St. Matthias Church in Berlin . Four of these panels were destroyed in World War II and then added in the same style.

He was a member of the German Society for Christian Art and the Munich Artists' Cooperative . For his 60th birthday Pope Pius XI drew . awarded the artist the Knight's Cross of the Order of St. Gregory in 1926 .

Philipp Schumacher achieved great popularity even after his death through his illustrations in school Bibles and catechisms, especially in Jakob Ecker's School Bible, which was published over decades . One of his Passion Cribs was reissued as a cut-out from 2004.

From 1885 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Austria Innsbruck . He later became a member of KaV Norica Vienna and KÖHV Carolina Graz .

gallery

  • Book cover The Catholic Church of Our Time , with artist's signature, 1899

  • Façade mosaic on the Three Saints Church in Innsbruck, 1900

  • Book cover Unser Bayerland , 1906, with artist's signature

  • Poster for the Tyrolean national celebration 1809–1909

  • Choir room in St. Willibrord in Euchen

  • Last Judgment , from the Catholic Religious Booklet for the Diocese of Speyer , 1951

  • Passion crib (cut-out sheets) by Philipp Schumacher: The Holy Sepulcher

literature

Web links

Commons : Philipp Schumacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website on school Bibles, with an enlargeable illustration by Philipp Schumacher from the Ecker School Bible
personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1940
Place of death Munich