Burkard Zamels

Burkard Zamels (* about 1690 ; † 1757 in Mainz ) was a German sculptor of Baroque . He was the court sculptor of the Mainz Elector Lothar Franz von Schönborn . Zamels was - alongside Franz Matthias Hiernle , Johann Peter Melchior and Johann Sebastian Barnabas Pfaff (1747–1794) - an important representative of the "Middle Rhine variant" of baroque sculpture.

Works

The atlases executed as caryatids at the entrance of the Deutschhaus

Portal figure of St. Clare at the Armklarakloster

• Mainz:
  • Deutschhaus , sculpture work
  • Armory , facade decorations and gable figure of Mars
  • Cathedral , tomb of Archbishop Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich , created 1740–41.
    • Grave monument of the cathedral provost Christoph Rudolf von Stadion (* 1638 - † 17 January 1700) and his brother Johann Philipp von Stadion , created in 1732
    • Grave monument of the cathedral provost Hugo Wolfgang von Kesselstadt († January 2, 1738), created after 1738
    • Statues erected by Aaron and Melchizedek , 1725
  • St. Quintin , two figures of saints Quintin and Blasius
  • Antoniterkapelle , sculpture of Saint Clare
  • Prison from 1742 (former Hospital Zum Floss , Weintorstraße), relief with allegorical figures
• Trier Cathedral , alabaster figures on the altar in the Heilig-Rock-Chapel , 1732
• Pommersfelden near Bamberg: Weißenstein Castle , eight stucco sculptures in the Sala terrena
• Bingen am Rhein - Dromersheim , crucifixion group, around 1750
• Kriftel (formerly Eberbach Monastery ), statues of Saints Bernhard and Joseph
• Clemenswerth Hunting Lodge in Emsland, individual sculptures
• Einhard basilica (Seligenstadt) : Archangel Gabriel , dove as a symbol of the Holy Spirit (sandstone; work from the workshop of Zamels)
• a figure of Saint Peter is now in the Liebieghaus sculpture collection in Frankfurt am Main.
• St. Georgsbrunnen at Friedberg Castle (Friedberg) (1738)

(no claim to completeness)

literature

• Baron Ludwig Döry (author), Historischer Verein Rhein-Main-Taunus eV (Hrsg.): Two baroque masterpieces in Kriftel: Statues of the hll. Bernhard and Josef von Burkhard Zamels from the Eberbach monastery . In: Rad und Sparren, H. 19, 1991
• Luzie Bratner (author), Society for Middle Rhine Church History (ed.): The archbishop's grave monuments of the 17th and 18th centuries in the Mainz cathedral . Sources and treatises on the history of the Middle Rhine Church, Vol. 113. Self-published by the Society for Church History on the Middle Rhine, Mainz 2005, pp. 96-107. ISBN 3-929135-47-7 . Table of contents (PDF file): [1] (PDF; 49 kB)

Web links

Commons : Burkard Zamels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Illustrations of the figure of St. Peter
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: model for one of the saints in the Eberbach monastery )

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Documentation Center for Art History ( Memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ): Tomb of Elector Philipp Karl von Eltz: Pleurant with coat of arms
2. ^ Franz Stephan Pelgen: A new find on Burkhard Zamels and the grave slab for Christoph Rudolph von Stadion in the Mainz Cathedral . In: Mainz magazine. Born in 105. Mainz. 2010, pp. 223-225.
3. ↑ Luzie Bratner: The archbishop's grave monuments of the 17th and 18th centuries in the Mainz Cathedral self-published by the Society for Middle Rhine Church History , Mainz, 2005