Cornelius Andreas Donett

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Cornelius Andreas Donett , also Donnet (born September 17, 1683 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 13, 1748 , ibid) was a German sculptor.

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Frankfurt Cathedral, crucifix by Cornelius Andreas Donett in the high choir
Frankfurt Teutonic Order Church, organ gallery, St. Georg by Cornelius Andreas Donett

At a young age, from 1696, a student of Johann Wolfgang Frölicher († 1700) and the Dutchman Michael von Fuhrt, who worked for him, he went to Mainz when Frölicher died , where he learned from the court sculptor Franz Matthias Hiernle .

In his hometown of Frankfurt, Cornelius Andreas Donett later worked as a sought-after stone and wood sculptor. He created qualitative sculptures for parks and villas, as well as architectural sculptures, for example 2 figures for the inns Zum Römischen Kaiser on the Zeil and König von England on the Fahrgasse , both of which are now in the Historical Museum in Frankfurt . But his specialty was religious art. An impressive crucifix from his hand adorns the choir of the Frankfurt Cathedral today . It comes from the former high altar of the no longer existing Capuchin Church in Töngesgasse , which he had made. In the Teutonic Order Church in Sachsenhausen there are wooden statues of St. Elisabeth and St. George in the organ gallery. They come from the broken high altar of the house of God, whose figure decorations were also Donett's work.

In the outer figure gallery on the new building of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt there are several baroque stone sculptures by Cornelius Andreas Donett. The sandstone sculptures "Spring" and "Summer" by Donett are in the Düsseldorf City Museum .

A Madonna with Child Jesus made by him is now in the Catholic Church. Church of St. Vitus von Oberhöchstadt , another in the Church of St. Philippus and Jakobus zu Glashütten (Taunus) ; one of his crucifixion groups in the Trinity Church of Fischbach (Taunus) .

Donett's daughter Anna Gertrude married the Frankfurt wine merchant Nikolaus Chandelle. Through this connection he became the grandfather of the Speyer bishop Matthäus Georg von Chandelle (1745-1826) and the painter Andreas Joseph Chandelle (1743-1820)

The Frankfurt painter Peter Donett († 1720) is said to have been a brother or a son.

Cornelius Andreas Donett died in 1748 of a river blow and was buried in the Carmelite monastery in Frankfurt .

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  1. ↑ according to older, inaccurate sources 1682
  2. ↑ Mainzer Zeitschrift , Verlag des Mainzer Altertumsverein, 1979, p. 41 u. 42; (Detail scan)
  3. ↑ Frankfurt and his buildings , 1886, Reprint: Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 3846010006 , page 114; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ Website of the Teutonic Order Church in Frankfurt
  5. ^ Website of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt, figure groups 1 and 4
  6. ↑ Spring, Cornelius Andreas Donett (1682–1748), object number: SMD.P 19
  7. ↑ Sommer, Cornelius Andreas Donett (1682–1748), object number: SMD.P 20
  8. ↑ Spring, autumn, summer - objects by Cornelius Andreas Donett (autumn is a “journeyman's work” and incorrectly assigned to Donett ) , on emuseum.duesseldorf.de
  9. ^ Website of the Oberhöchstadt church with mention of the figure of Mary
  10. ^ Website of the parish church of St. Philip and James in Glashütten
  11. ↑ Website for the Trinity Church in Fischbach
  12. ↑ Joachim Heinrich Jäck : Most important life moments of all royal. Bavarian civil and military servants of this century , Volume 4, Augsburg, 1819, p. 46; (Digital scan)
  13. ↑ PDF document on the biography of Andreas Joseph Chandelle
personal data
SURNAME Donett, Cornelius Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donnett, Cornelius Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stone and wood sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1748
Place of death Frankfurt am Main