Anton Mormann

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Anton Mormann, pulpit of the Rosary Basilica (Berlin-Steglitz): The twelve-year-old Jesus teaches in the temple

Anton Mormann (born November 2, 1851 in Sünninghausen ; † December 29, 1940 in Stade ) was a sculptor from the Wiedenbrück school .

Life

Mormann completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor with Franz Anton Goldkuhle (1827–1906) in Wiedenbrück and studied a few semesters at the Berlin Art Academy. Later he was employed by Heinrich Fleige in Münster.

In 1877 he founded his own sculpture workshop with Christoph Siebe in Wiedenbrück. From 1882 he continued to run the workshop alone, in which he employed up to ten people who implemented his designs for sacred sculptures for altars, cribs, stations of the cross, etc. in stone and wood. Some of the works carried out in the popular styles of historicism (especially neo-Gothic, neo-Romanesque) were delivered to America. In addition to designing new works, his workshop also restored old ones. While most of the executed altarpieces are still "in situ" in the churches for which they were intended, the plaster models on display testify to the artistic preliminary stage, the master's design.

Since Mormann always had good relationships, including with the Cologne Cathedral Chapter Alexander Schnütgen , he was able to place orders with other workshops at the Wiedenbrück School.

Works

Station of the Cross in the Sacred Heart Church in Koblenz
  • Way of the Cross in St. Jakobus the Elder in Bad Iburg (1875)
  • Replica of the golden plaque in Herford (1891)
  • Death of St. Josef in St. Marien (Lügde)
  • Stations of the Cross at the Lourdes Grotto in Angelina (Santa Catarina) , Brazil
  • Pulpit of the Rosary Basilica, Berlin-Steglitz (1900)
  • Belgian granite font in St. Marien in Herne (1902)
  • Station of the Cross in the Sacred Heart Church in Koblenz (1903)
  • Design of the monastery church in Hünfeld (1902):
    • Anton Mormann created the figures of saints for the monastery church of the Boniface monastery in Hünfeld; St. Teresa of Ávila 1902 (left side altar), St. Josef 1902 (left side altar), St. Elisabeth of Thuringia 1902 (right side altar), St. Anthony of Padua 1902 (right side altar), St. Cecilia 1907 (sold to unknown), St. Sturmius and St. Lioba 1902 (now in the sacristy), St. Augustine (sold to unknown). All statues are made of Baumberger sand-lime brick and are of the highest craftsmanship.
  • Crucifixion group above the high altar of St. Elisabeth in Berlin-Schöneberg (1911; expanded by four figures in 1920)
  • The Liesborn Abbey Museum is showing works by the artist in the Mormann room, which were a gift from the Mormann family

Awards and honors

literature

personal data
SURNAME Mormann, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Sünninghausen
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1940
Place of death Stade