Thomas Greinwald

Thomas Greinwald (born January 9, 1821 in Gseng, Abtenau municipality , † October 19, 1875 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

He studied sculpture at the Royal Art Academy in Munich under Ludwig Schwanthaler and Max von Widnmann . Greinwald created five life-size statues for the St. Peter Abbey in Salzburg ( Roman warrior , Good Samaritan , St. Genoveva , Diana and John the Baptist ). He also modeled a bust of Empress Karolina Augusta and Emperor Franz Joseph I for the Archbishop's Palace in Salzburg .

In the 1860s, Thomas Greinwald worked in the Vienna Arsenal . So he made two marble reliefs with depictions from the life of St. Elisabeth for the parish church Arsenal . He created two life-size statues for the Feldherrenhalle of the Imperial and Royal Weapons Museum (today the Museum of Military History ), namely Field Marshal Josef Wenzel Radetzky (1867) and Field Marshal Raimondo Montecuccoli (1869). Greinwald was a member of the Munich Association for Christian Art .

On January 19, 1869, the artist donated an emperor's bust in plaster of paris to the cooperative of visual artists.

Works (excerpt)

• Portrait statuette of Field Marshal Heinrich Freiherr von Heß , after 1859, alabaster , 16.5 × 17 × 13 cm, Army History Museum, Vienna
• Statue Field Marshal Radetzky , Carrara marble , 1867, Feldherrenhalle of the Army History Museum, Vienna
• Statue of Field Marshal Montecuccoli , Carrara marble , 1869, Feldherrenhalle of the Military History Museum, Vienna

literature

• Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 62 f.
• Ulrich Thieme (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig 1921, Volume 14, p. 590.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich Thieme (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Leipzig 1920, Volume 14, p. 590.
2. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. The museum and its representative rooms . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1981, ISBN 3-7023-0113-5 , pp. 32, 37 and 49
3. ^ Association for Christian Art in Munich (ed.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th year. Anniversary. Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, p. 100.
4. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 62 f.