Adam Rammelmayer
Adam Rammelmayer (also Ramelmayer or Ramelmayr ; born January 28, 1807 in Vienna , † March 20, 1887 there ) was an Austrian sculptor .
Life
From 1827 Rammelmayer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he also received several awards, such as the Neulingspreis (1830), the Reichelpreis (1932) and the great sculptor prize of Milan (1833, for the figure group Androclus and the Lion ). In the years from 1840 to 1844 he received a scholarship at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. In 1843 he became a member of the Vienna Academy and in 1849 he was also a member of the study reform commission.
Rammelmayer called himself a history sculptor and tried to give the sculpture new impulses through Christian and romantic content. Friendships with artistic and political personalities of his time are documented, such as Friedrich von Amerling , Adolf Fischhof and Maximilian von Spaun .
Main work
The more than 180 portrait busts for the Heldenberg memorial in Kleinwetzdorf , Lower Austria , which he commissioned Joseph Gottfried Pargfrieder (whom he met while studying in Rome) and together with his colleagues Anton Dietrich and Johann Baptist Feßler can be described as Rammelmayer's main work (both students of Josef Klieber at the Viennese engraving school). The casting took place in the Salm'schen and Mohrenberg'schen foundry in Blansko (Moravia). Originally the busts had a light colored surface. The current black surface was probably not applied until 1936 during a restoration . The busts were common in those days for plastics used cast zinc - more accurately a zinc alloy with small amounts of copper and aluminum - made only four statues are made of cast iron , a comparatively more complex procedure.
The criticism of the Heldenberg complex and thus also of his sculptural work is said to have caused Rammelmayer to give up artistic activity. Apart from these zinc and iron castings, only a few works by his hand are known, such as the Rebekka fountain in Franziskanerplatz 1 in the 1st district of Vienna ; two statue models in the meeting room of the Old Town Hall ; a marble statuette of Prince Metternich in Enzesfeld Castle and a marble seated figure of Archduke Carl of Austria , as well as a few more.
Works (excerpt)
- Archduke Carl of Austria seated figure , white marble, 24 × 37.5 × 57 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
- Crucifixion , 1837, cast iron, Mariazell basilica
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Rammelmayer, Adam . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 24th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1872, p. 311 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Rammelmayer, Adam . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 597 .
- S. Krasa-Florian: Ramelmayr Adam. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 408.
- Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 139 f.
- Hubert M. Mader, Susanne Mader: The heroes from Heldenberg. Pargfrieder and his "Walhalla" of the Imperial and Royal Army. Verlag Vehling, Graz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85333-154-5 .
- Rammelmayer . In: Hermann Hermann (Hrsg.): Genealogy and heraldry of middle-class families in Austria and Hungary . tape 1 . H. Hermann, Vienna 1899, p. 267–268 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- A portrait of Adam Rammelmayer by Carl Rahl on digital.belvedere.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rammelmayer, Adam . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 597 .
- ↑ Adam Rammelmayer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 408.
- ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 139 f.
- ↑ cf. Text of the Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum on geschichte.landesmuseum.net, accessed on February 22, 2013.
- ^ Copy of it on artfact.com , accessed February 22, 2013.
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SURNAME | Rammelmayer, Adam |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ramelmayr, Adam |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1807 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1887 |
Place of death | Vienna |