Karl Stilp

The Ignorant, wooden figure by Stilp from the Waldsassen Abbey Library

Johann Karl Stilp (born November 4, 1668 in Waldsassen , † around 1735 in Eger ) was a German sculptor .

Stilp was the son of the Waldsassen carpenter Ferdinand Jacob Stilp. Stilp's artistic talent showed early on. After his father's apprenticeship in the carpenter's trade, he came to work at the Waldsassen monastery building works . Stilp soon made a career there as an independent artist.

Stilp is known for his magnum opus , the larger-than-life sculptures in the library room of the monastery.

Works

• 1690 Tabernacle altar in the Waldsassen collegiate basilica
• 1701 Statues of the Marian altar in the Waldsassen monastery basilica
• 1708 Cloud altar and side altars in the Nová Ves u Sokolova church in the Czech Republic
• 1713 Gargoyles on the tube fountain in Teplá Abbey in the Czech Republic
• 1715 Design of the pavement in the church of the Teplá Abbey
• 1716 Creation of a model for the Trinity Column in Loket in the Czech Republic
• 1723 acanthus altar in the parish church of St. Leonhard in Leonberg (Upper Palatinate)
• 1724 Abbey library in Waldsassen Abbey
• 1726 high altar and side altars in the Kreuzbergkirche in Wiesau in the Upper Palatinate
• 1730 altar of grace in the pilgrimage church Chlum Svaté Maří in the Czech Republic
• 1735 high altar in the Loučná pod Klínovcem church in the Czech Republic

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  Trinity column in Elbogen, the plans of which come from Stilp

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  Tabernacle altar in Waldsassen

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Stilp, Karl (with Stilp, Caspar) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 39th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1879, p. 53 ( digitized version ).
• Maria Leonia Lorenz: The secret of the library room in Waldsassen. An attempt to explain. Habbel, Regensburg 1927 ( bib-bvb.de , PDF; 1.48 MB).
• Stilp, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 53-54 .
• Wolfgang Rappel: Stilp, (Johann) Karl. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , pp. 756-753 ( digitized version ).
• Wolf-Dieter Hamperl: Works by the sculptor Johann Carl Stilp. In: Oberpfälzer Heimat . 30, 1986, ZDB ID 214218-1 , pp. 7-22.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Stilp in the catalog of the German National Library