Anton Sturm (sculptor)

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Anton Sturm (born May 30, 1690 in Faggen , Parish Prutz in Tyrol , † October 25, 1757 in Füssen ) was a South German sculptor of the Baroque and Rococo . His most important works can be found primarily in the Allgäu and neighboring Upper Bavaria , but also in Upper Swabia , in Tyrol's Ausserfern and in some museums.

Sandstone relief on the storm house in Füssen
Sculptures on the high altar in the St. Mang Church in Füssen
Picture frames and putti in the Anna Chapel in Buxheim
Pulpit in the parish church of Bernbeuren
Pietá in the chapel of the dead in Breitenwang

Life

Anton Sturm came from the Tyrolean Oberinntal. He was born there on May 30, 1690 in the hamlet of Faggen, which is part of the Prutz parish. He completed his apprenticeship as a sculptor with Johann Paul Tschiderer , a Tyrolean compatriot who had settled in the Swabian town of Donauwörth . The period of apprenticeship - from November 11, 1705 to December 16, 1709 - is documented in the archives. However, there is no news whatsoever about the journeyman years after that. In Füssen, where he later lived and died, “Herr Antoni Bildthauer” appears for the first time in the pulpit account from 1719, specifically in the (unfortunately incomplete!) Abbey invoices from Sankt Mang . With absolute certainty, however, he had already worked for the monastery and the furnishing of its new buildings.

On June 9, 1721 Anton Sturm married Maria Fellner from Boos near Memmingen in Füssen . Just nine days after his wedding, he bought a house (today's Brunnengasse 18) and set up his workshop there. Sturm's marriage to his wife Maria resulted in a total of six children between 1722 and 1729 - three girls and three boys. Sturm trained a number of apprentices, including his son Franz Joseph. He also employed journeymen on a regular basis, but only a few names have come down to us. Sturm achieved the highest reputation as a sculptor, but he was denied civil honorary posts in Füssen. Anton Sturm died at the age of 67. His wife Maria only survived him by a year. The sculptor's workshop, which had been so successful for a long time, was apparently discontinued.

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Anton Sturm received his first major orders to equip the new church of the Sankt Mang monastery in Füssen . Before 1717 he created four life-size figures of saints (Benedict, Scholastica, Columban and Gallus) out of white marble from Lasa for the Magnus Chapel . Between 1721 and 1722, four more marble monumental figures followed for the high altar. With the seated figure of St. Magnus, Sturm completed the furnishings of the Magnus Chapel in 1725. From 1724 to 1727 Anton Sturm delivered 16 larger-than-life statues of emperors from the House of Habsburg for the imperial hall of the Upper Swabian Benedictine Abbey of Ottobeuren . This order can be regarded as the most important that has ever been given to him. However, a letter of complaint that Sturm sent to the Augsburg prince-bishop in 1745 shows that the order situation was not always so good. With this letter, Sturm tried to get the order for the high altar in the Marktoberdorf parish church, although this had already been awarded to the Pfronten sculptor Joseph Stapf . It should be noted, however, that Anton Sturm - and rightly so - was considered very expensive. In any case, the “burger and stone cutter von Füeßen” mastered the processing of hard stone with his “artificial chisel” just as virtuously as he did that of soft wood with his carving knives. Often mentioned characteristics of his figures are the pronounced hip bend and a typical “roll beard”. Sturm also designed altars and, as an entrepreneur, took on all of them. His artistic range extends from the popular saints of the country churches to the elegance of his sculptures for the large abbey churches, most recently the four church fathers, which he executed for the pilgrimage church in Wies in 1753/56 .

Catalog raisonné

The extremely large number of previously known works by Anton Sturm requires a restriction to particularly striking and important works. A distinction is made between archival documented works (A) and attributions (Z). In some cases both are true or it is doubtful which applies. They are marked with (A / Z) or (A / Z?).

  • 1713/14: Augsburg , cathedral, Wolfgang chapel at the east choir: Figures of Justitia and Fortitudo on the epitaph of Prince-Bishop Christoph von Freiberg, marble (Z)
  • 1715/17: Füssen, St. Mang parish church , Magnus chapel: 4 niche figures, Lasa marble (Z)
  • 1716: Füssen, Reichenstraße 22 (former residence of Johann Georg Fischer): Maria Immakulata as house madonna, Stein (Z)
  • 1716/17: Füssen, parish church St. Mang , wall pillars: 10 oval medallions, marble (Z)
  • 1719: Füssen, parish church of St. Mang , pulpit: sculptures, especially 10 putti, wood (A)
  • 1720/21: Schwangau-Waltenhofen, parish church St. Maria and Florian : high altar and pulpit figures, wood (A)
  • Around 1720: Frankfurt am Main , Liebieghaus , sculpture collection: Assumption of Mary, marble (Z)
  • Around 1720/25 (?): City Museum Meißen : group of figures (small sculpture) “Death of St. Benedict ", wood (Z)
  • 1721/22: Füssen, St. Mang parish church : high altar sculptures, Lasa marble (A / Z)
  • 1722: Ottobeuren , Benedictine abbey , corridor forecourt of the refectory: group of figures, wood (A)
  • 1724: Füssen, Brunnengasse 18 (Sturm-Haus): relief, sandstone (A)
  • 1724/27: Ottobeuren, Benedictine abbey , imperial hall: 16 imperial statues , wood (A)
  • 1724/28: Breitenwang (Tyrol), Church of the Resurrection: 3 groups of figures, wood (A / Z)
  • 1725: Füssen, parish church St. Mang , Magnus chapel: seated figure of St. Magnus, Lasa marble (A / Z)
  • Around 1725: Ottobeuren, Benedictine abbey , library: free figure of Athena, wood (Z)
  • 1727: Buxheim , parish church of Our Lady, St. Peter and Paul: 3 figures, wood (A)
  • 1731/33: Bernbeuren , St. Nikolaus parish church: high altar sculpture , wood (A)
  • 1732/33: Marktoberdorf, parish church St. Martin : 4 figures, 4 angels, wood (A)
  • 1732/35: Wängle (Tyrol), parish church of St. Martin: St. Simon at the high altar, 2 angels, crucifix, wood (Z)
  • 1732/36: Burggen , St. Stephan parish church : high altar and side altar sculpture , individual figures, wood (A / Z)
  • 1733: Ottobeuren, Benedictine abbey , refectory: cross group, wood (A)
  • 1734: Garmisch , parish church St. Martin: high altar sculpture, wood (A)
  • 1734/35: Burggen, pilgrimage church St. Anna: high altar sculpture and individual figures, wood (A)
  • 1738: Ehingen-Nasgenstadt , Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul: Dungeon Christ, wood (A)
  • 1738 (?): Ochsenhausen , former St. Georg monastery church: facade figures and designs, stone (A / Z?)
  • 1738/39: Buxheim, former Carthusian monastery, Liebfrauenkapelle and Anna chapel: altar sculpture, wood (A)
  • 1739/40: Speyer , Landesarchiv or former Franciscan convent of St. Klara: 2 high altar designs (pen drawings) and high altar, wood, not preserved (A)
  • 1739/41: Oberstdorf , Maria Loreto chapel: altar, wood (A)
  • Around 1740: Buxheim, former Carthusian monastery, Anna chapel: 4 niche figures, wood (A / Z)
  • Around 1740 (?): Wolfegg , parish church St. Katharina : St. Sebastian with putto, wood (Z)
  • Around 1740/45: Breitenwang (Tyrol), former tower chapel or "dungeon", now sacristy: dungeon group, wood (Z)
  • 1741/42: old towns , parish church St. Peter and Paul: high altar sculpture, wood (A)
  • 1741/42: Buxheim, former Carthusian monastery: fountain, stone, not preserved (A)
  • 1743/48: Rottenbuch , former Augustinian Canons' Church: tomb for Provost Patritius Oswald , marble (A); Steps, steps and pavement, marble or sandstone (A); Baptismal font with baptismal group, marble or wood (A)
  • 1745/48: Steingaden , former Premonstratensian abbey church, parish church of St. Johannes d. T.: Pulpit, mercy seat and individual figures, wood (A / Z?)
  • 1745/1748: Old towns , parish church St. Peter and Paul: pulpit and side altar sculpture , wood (A)
  • Around 1750: Füssen, Spitalkirche: Guardian angel group, wood (Z)
  • 1752: Bad Waldsee , Fürstl. Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee'sches Schloss, Schlosshof: Monumental statue with Maria Immakulata, marble (A)
  • 1753/54: Roggenburg , parish and Premonstratensian monastery church of the Assumption of Mary : high altar sculpture and figures in the tower chapels, wood (Z)
  • 1753/56: Wies , pilgrimage church of the Scourged Savior: larger than life statues of the four church fathers and side altar sculpture , wood (A / Z)

  • Justitia in Augsburg Cathedral

  • Pulpit in the St. Mang Church in Füssen

  • St. Paul in the parish church of old towns

  • Athena in the library of the Ottobeuren monastery

  • St. Sebastian in the Wolfegg parish church

  • Baptismal font in the parish church in Rottenbuch

  • St. Zacharias (detail) in the pilgrimage church Burggen

  • St. Columban in the Magnus Chapel in Füssen

  • Mercy Seat in the parish church of Steingaden

  • St. Magnus in the St. Mangk Monastery in Füssen

  • Altar in the Loreto Chapel near Oberstdorf

  • St. Barbara at the side altar in the parish church of Bernbeuren

Trivia

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary in the 1994/95 school year, the Hauptschule Füssen was renamed Anton-Sturm-Volksschule (Hauptschule) ; in September 2010 she was given the designation Anton-Sturm-Mittelschule .

literature

  • Detlev Schröder: Sturm, Anton, sculptor. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 766 ( digitized version ).
  • Anton Sturm. 1690-1757. Sculptors and citizens in Füssen. Exhibition catalog, Museum of the City of Füssen, Füssen 1990.
  • Herbert Wittmann: Anthoni Sturmb, Burger and sculptor in Fiessen (1690–1757). With an updated, chronologically structured catalog raisonné. In: Alt Füssen. Yearbook of the historical association Alt Füssen 2007. Kempten 2008, ISSN  0939-2467 , pp. 5–106.
  • Herbert Wittmann: Bayrhoff - Sturm - Heel - Hitzelberger. Supplements to the respective catalog raisonnés. In: Alt Füssen. Yearbook of the historical association Alt Füssen 2008. Füssen 2008, ISSN  0939-2467 , pp. 148–164.

Web links

Commons : Anton Sturm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph M. Helmschrott: Directory of old print monuments in the library of the ancient Benedictine monastery at H. Mang in Füeßen. Ulm 1790, p. 17.
  2. ^ Anton Sturm School .
personal data
SURNAME Sturm, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baroque and Rococo sculptors in the Allgäu
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Faggen , Parish Prutz in Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1757
Place of death Feet