Arnold Harnisch

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Arnold Harnisch († shortly before January 29, 1691 in Mainz ) worked as a sculptor in the Rhine-Main area in the 17th century and was one of the most important sculptors in Germany in the 17th century.

biography

He was the son of the stonemason Martin Harnisch from Schupbach in the rule of Runkel , who also supplied Lahn marble , among other things for the tomb of Mainz Elector Georg Friedrich von Greiffenclau zu Vollrads († 1629).

Arnold Harnisch married the Mainz citizen daughter Katharina Schöffer in Mainz in the church of St. Ignaz in 1651 and was accepted as a citizen of Mainz in 1652. With Katharina he had a son. She died in 1655. At the end of the same year or beginning of 1656 he married again, Katharina Brick, daughter of the electoral baker Konrad Brick. He had twelve children with her between 1656 and 1680.

Arnold Harnisch was a member of the goldsmith's guild . In 1669 he was involved in removing his sculptor colleague Mathias Rauchmiller , who refused to qualify for the guild, from Mainz. Rauchmiller went to Vienna .

After the death of Arnold Harnisch in 1691, Katharina Harnisch lived in great poverty in Mainz.

plant

Arnold Harnisch was known for his high-quality work made of Lahn marble, but works made of sandstone are also known.

year object place annotation
1658/1659 Open grotto Idstein Castle Garden
after 1666 Epitaph for Adam Lohr Mainz Cathedral
1668 Marble columns Union Church Idstein Then: Martinskirche
1675-1678 Five marble portals Electoral Palace , Mainz
1676 Laurentius Altar Mainz Cathedral Client: Damian Hartard von der Leyen
1676 altar Union Church Idstein Then: Martinskirche
1676-1686 Epitaph for Archbishop Elector Damian Hartard von der Leyen Mainz Cathedral
after 1678 Epitaph for Johann Peter von Walderdorff Limburg City Church Back then: Franciscan Church
1679-1685 Epitaph of Landgrave Georg Christian von Hessen-Homburg Mainz Cathedral The epitaph is heavily restored.
after 1679 Grave slab of the elector-archbishop Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg Mainz Cathedral
circa 1680 Marble columns Rood screen of the west choir of Mainz Cathedral Not received
1682 Three Kings Altar Trier Cathedral Together with Johann Mauritz Gröninger
1683 Assumption Altar Mainz Cathedral In Mainz Cathedral until 1868, today in the parish church of St. Michael in Lörzweiler.
1683 Altar canteen of the Martin Altar Mainz Cathedral, today: St. Gereon in Nackenheim Arnold Harnisch's authorship is unsecured.
after 1683 Grave slab of the cathedral capitular Philipp Adolph von Staffel Mainz Cathedral
1686 Last datable work

literature

  • Luzie Bratner: Arnold Harnisch . In: De Gruyter General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples 69. Berlin 2011, p. 374.
  • P. Kutter: Harnisch, Arnold . In: Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker : General encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Volume 16 (Ed .: Hans Vollmer ). Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1992, p. 47.
  • Christel Lentz and Willi Wabel: The sculptor Arnold Hirsch and the design of the open grotto in the Idsteiner Schlossgarten . In: Nassauische Annalen 129 (2018), pp. 89–110.

Remarks

  1. ↑ January 29, 1691 was the day of the burial (Lentz: Der Bildhauer , p. 104).
  2. ^ Adam Lohr was a university professor, electoral councilor and syndic of the Mainz cathedral chapter (Lentz: Der Bildhauer , p. 109).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 110.
  2. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 102.
  3. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 102.
  4. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 103.
  5. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 103.
  6. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 104.
  7. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 93.
  8. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 109.
  9. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 107.
  10. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 104.
  11. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 104.
  12. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , pp. 104, 107.
  13. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 108.
  14. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 109.
  15. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 108f; Thieme-Becker.
  16. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 109.
  17. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 108.
  18. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 107.
  19. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 107.
  20. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 108.
  21. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 109.
  22. ↑ Lentz: The Sculptor , p. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Harnisch, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH buried January 29, 1691
Place of death Mainz