The article discusses the oeuvre of the architect Hans Pascher from Graz, Austria, who in the period of the increased building activity in 19th and 20th centuries erected most of the churches in Lower Styria. It is an analysis of the newly-erected buildings (Prebold, Čadram, Žalec, Cirkovce, Dol pri Hrastniku, Brestanica, Radelca) and presents the unrealised plans for the church of St. Magdalene in Maribor. The significant contribution of the study is the analysis of Pascher's churches in Slovenian part of Styria in the context of late Historicist architecture in Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1147781
The paper by Polona Vidmar on the palace of Hermann Baron Gödel Lannoy discusses the architecture and inner furnishings of the most important historicist palace in Maribor, which has hitherto not been comprehensively researched. The buildings on the western part of the city centre gained their present-day appearance in the 19th century. The paper focuses on baron Hermann as a commissioner who in furnishing his palace followed the examples of palaces in Venice and Trieste. Until its renovation in the 1950s for the purposes of Maribor Art Galery, the palace furnishings included the most exquisit collection of historicist furniture in Maribor and an important painting collection.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1225349
The article discusses three paintings by Franz Ignaz Flurer (Augsburg, 1688–Graz, 1742), one of the leading Styrian artists in the first half of the 18th century. The paintings in the main altar of St. Peter's church in Malečnik, Delivery of the Keys to St. Peter and Conversion of Saul, were painted in 1737 for the ambitious and theologically educated parish priest Johann Baptist Sittich. In the article the painting of Christ, delivering the keys to St. Peter is accurately analysed, which by including the depiction of St. Michael and heavenly Jerusalem complements the pictorial tradition a great deal, as well as the Conversion of Saul after Rubens and The Fourteen Holy Helpers. The latter was the motive for the thorough research, as it was, when chosen for the exhibition How to Identify and Understand the Depicted – Subjects of Works of Art from Maribor, unattributed and insufficiently studied.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34694189
Branko Kocmut (1921–2006), the leading architect in Maribor in the second half of 20th century, used horizontal line as the main artistic element. Only now and then he decided to make a vertical emphasis in a space in a form of an obelisk. In such a way he realised some monuments to the fallen participants of the national war of liberation. The paper deals with Kocmut’s arrangement of the tomb of the fighters of the company of Slovenske gorice at the old Ptuj cemetery (1956), with the obelisk in Mostje by Ptuj (1959) and with two obelisks in Maribor: the memorials in front of the entrance of the Faculty of Education (1979) and in Volkmer passage (1975).
COBISS.SI-ID: 35232301
The article is the first part of a comprehensive study on picture collections of the Counts of Herberstein in their Styrian residences between the second half of the 17th and the end of the 18th century. Based on the archival sources (ie. mostly probate inventories) and preserved paintings in the museums in Maribor and Ptuj, it comprises an in-depth analysis of the structure of the art collection of Erasmus Friderich Count of Herberstein (1631–1691) in his castle Hrastovec (Germ. Gutenhag) near Lenart and his town palace in Graz. The collection which included more than 300 paintings is discussed in the context of early modern (Central) European collecting trends, display practices of paintings, the hierarchy of genres and with regards to the role and reception of individual paintings in the collections and their material value as compared with other artworks and objects in his assets. The article is accompanied with a commented transcription of all painting records of Erasmus Friedrich’s probate inventories.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37724973