Christian Mohr (sculptor)

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Christian Mohr, portrait of Julius Roeting (1822–1896), oil on canvas, 1852, Cologne City Museum

Christian Mohr (born April 15, 1823 in Fornich , Andernach ; † September 13, 1888 in Cologne ) was a German sculptor, Cologne cathedral sculptor, restorer and art writer.

Life

Christian Mohr was born as one of eight children of the farmer and innkeeper Johann Adam Mohr (1788–1841) and his wife Christina Mohr née Hirsch (1800–1848). Working from Cologne since 1845, he married the daughter of the Chemnitz drama director Carl Ferdinand Graff, Caroline Emile Helene nee Graff, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

On the recommendation of Johann Claudius von Lassaulx , Christian Mohr, as a graduate of the local Progymnasium and after his three-year sculpting apprenticeship in Cologne, which began around 1840, was entrusted, among other things, with the statue of St. Matthias in the Matthias Chapel (Kobern-Gondorf) , made in 1844 and preserved , while he worked as a sculptor in Koblenz .

As a sculptor and owner of a workshop in Cologne, he was responsible for at least 333 sculptures in connection with the Cologne Cathedral until 1871, to which the restored sculptures can be assigned.

Throughout his life he remained influenced by the ideals of classicism, but also worked in the style of the Nazarenes . His brother-in-law was the architect Friedrich von Schmidt .

Known employees or students of Christian Mohr were Johann Degen , Otto Hansmann, Leo Müsch , Edmund Renard the Elder. Elderly, Caspar Weis (1849–1930) and Anton Werres .

Christian Mohr was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne . The tomb no longer exists.

Works and drafts

  • . Matthias in the Matthiaskapelle (Gondorf) where it statue of St. as a template that: 1844 Sebaldus from the workshop of Peter Vischer the Elder serves
  • Statuettes on the Tumba of Konrad von Hochstaden in Cologne Cathedral (1846–1848)
  • Sculptures on the south transept portals of Cologne Cathedral (1849–1871)
  • Gargoyles and collecting figures on Cologne Cathedral (1850–1853)
  • Neo-Gothic Marian column in Eupen (1857)
  • Centerpiece for Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1857-1858)
  • Statues for the frame of the former St. Mary's altar in Cologne Cathedral (1859–1860)
  • Competition models for the monument of Friedrich Wilhelm III. for Cologne (1862–1863)
  • Statues at the former Victory Fountain in Lübeck (1874–1875)
  • The punch in the council silver of the city of Cologne (1877)
  • The lunette reliefs at the former post and telegraph office in Münster (1878–1880)
  • Designs of seven statues at the city hall in Aachen ( Konrad II. , Heinrich III. , Friedrich der Schöne , Maximilian II. , Matthias , Joseph I. , Karl VI. ), Executed by the Aachen sculptors Carl Esser , Wilhelm Pohl and Lambert Piedboeuf ( 1881–1887)
  • The portrait sculpture (1856–1879)
  • Four large figures in the western porch of the Christ Church in Hanover (around 1855)
  • Marble bust of the Prussian entrepreneur Franz Daniel Hölterhoff

Publications

  • The churches of Cologne. 1885
  • Cologne in its heyday. 1885

literature

  • Walter Geis: The cathedral sculptor Christian Mohr 1823–1888 . Dissertation, Bonn 1988
  • Walter Geis:  Mohr, Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 705 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hans Josef Böker: The portal sculptures of the Christ Church in Hanover: additions to the work of the Cologne cathedral sculptors Christian Mohr, Peter Fuchs and Edmund Renard. In: Low German contributions to art history 24 (1985), pp. 185–200

Web links

Commons : Christian Mohr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "According to the program designed by Sulpiz Boisserée and decided by the Mainz Cathedral Chapter , the highly respected Munich sculptor made pencil drawings for all the figures as early as 1847. After his death, Christian Mohr from Andernach was commissioned with the execution. It was his merit to have translated Schwanthaler's still quite classicistic designs into a neo-Gothic language of forms, which was based on the work of the German painters living in Rome, above all Friedrich Overbeck. His sculptures are considered the pinnacle of romantic-Nazarene sculpture in Germany ”(Arnold Wolff).
  2. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 154
  3. ↑ Hans Josef Böker: The portal sculptures of the Christ Church in Hanover: additions to the work of the Cologne cathedral sculptors Christian Mohr, Peter Fuchs and Edmund Renard. In: Low German Contributions to Art History 24 (1985), p. 188.
  4. ↑ Dr. Otto von Fisenne: The Krayerhof was declared a monument zone in March 1984 - in the 19th century it experienced a heyday under the Hölterhoff family . -
    in: Eifelverein (Ed.): Eifeljahrbuch 1986, illus. p. 157
personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, restorer and art writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Fornich , Andernach
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1888
Place of death Cologne