!!!Blümelhuber, Michael

b. Unterhimmel-Christkindl (Upper Austria), Sept. 23, 1865, 
d. Steyr (Upper Austria), Jan. 20, 1936, steel cutter, founded a steel 
cutting workshop in Steyr in 1910 (closed down in 1942), made steel 
cutting into an art form thanks to the "ajour-cut", became 
internationally famous at the world fairs in Paris and London.

!Works
Kalksburg cross 1911; key for the new cathedral of Linz, 1924; 
reliquary cross for St. Stephen´s Cathedral, 1927; liturgical 
objects.

!Literature
OeBL; NDB.



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