Andreas Schweigel (sculptor)
Andreas Schweigel (also Andreas Kaspar Schweigel , sometimes Schweigl ; Czech Ondřej Schweigl ; born November 30, 1735 in Brno ; † March 24, 1812 ibid) was a Moravian sculptor .
Life
Andreas Schweigel was a son of the Brno sculptor Anton Schweigel († 1761), from whom he learned the craft of sculpting. From 1754 he attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , where sculpture was taught by Matthäus Donner (1704–1756), Balthasar Ferdinand Moll and Jakob Christoph Schletterer . In Vienna he met his older colleague Paul Troger , who had an artistic influence on him.
It is likely that after his return he took over and continued to run his father's workshop. Subsequently, he was entrusted with numerous commissions for the sculptural design of churches, monasteries and other institutions and was one of the busiest sculptors in Moravia and Silesia . His works can be found in almost all Brno churches as well as in Wranau , Raigern , Nikolsburg , Kiritein , Dieditz , Pöltenberg , Buchlowitz , Gewitsch , Zwittau and Tobitschau .
1764–1770 he built the former high altar for the pilgrimage church of the Holy Mother of God in Sorrows on the castle hill near Jägerndorf , of which two statues are in the Opava State Museum. For the parish church of St. Maria Magdalena in Teschen , he created the late Baroque main altar with the figures of Saints donated by Duke Albert Kasimir von Sachsen-Teschen in 1794 . Peter and Paul.
Andreas Schweigel left records of sculpture, painting and architecture in Moravia. They were evaluated in the art history work of the writer E. Hawlik.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schweigel, Andreas . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 350–353 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Weiß: Schweigel, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 331.
- Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 237.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Petry and Josef Joachim Menzel (eds.): History of Silesia. Volume 2, ISBN 3-7995-6342-3 , p. 192.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schweigel, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schweigl, Andreas; Schweigel, Andreas Kaspar; Czech; Schweigl, Ondřej |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moravian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1735 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1812 |
| Place of death | Brno |