Dietrich Meinardus

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Dietrich Meinardus (born February 8, 1804 in Ovelgönne , Duchy of Oldenburg , † January 5, 1871 in Düsseldorf ) was a German sculptor and stone mason of historicism in Düsseldorf.

Life

Germania statue on Friedrichsplatz in Düsseldorf at the Unity Festival on August 6, 1848 , contemporary illustration
Jesuit monument on the Golzheimer Friedhof (left in the picture)
Alexander Meinardus (1843-1891)

The life and work of Meinardus have hardly been researched. In 1848 he appeared as the sculptor in charge of a monumental Germania statue made of wood, cardboard and canvas, which the Düsseldorf painter Karl Ferdinand Sohn had designed for the “ Festival of German Unity ” on Friedrichsplatz in Düsseldorf . Together with painters from the Düsseldorf School , he was one of the founders of the Malkasten artists' association in the same year .

Meinardus, a member of the city's evangelical community, lived in Düsseldorf's old town , in 1838 on Ritterstraße and at the latest since the 1850s at Andreasstraße 380 and 15. In the early 1830s he opened his sculpture shop on Bolkerstraße 441 and applied this with several years of study at the art academy and certificates issued there.

He mainly created sacred art, especially tombs , and often collaborated with sculptors and architects who provided designs, such as the sculptors Julius Bayerle and Johann Peter Götting and the architect Johannes Kühlwetter. Some of his works are preserved in the Golzheimer Friedhof . The main sculptural work of this cemetery, the Hochkreuz, architecturally designed by Johannes Kühlwetter, sculptured by Meinardus and equipped with figures of Götting (Christ) and Bayerle (Maria), was created in 1850. It was because of the construction of Klever Straße , which was opened in 1903/1904 cuts through the cemetery at the original location of the high cross, moved in 1905 to the so-called "million hill" of the Düsseldorf North Cemetery . Another important work that was created in cooperation between Kühlwetter and Meinardus was the Jesuit monument made in 1843, a communal grave with a stele in the form of a neo-Gothic pinnacle made of sandstone, which commemorates the clergy of the Jesuit order who worked at St. Andrew's Church in Prussian times .

Meinardus died in 1871 at the age of 66. He was buried in the grave of his wife Luise, née Dallemscheid (1812–1868), in the Golzheim cemetery (hallway B 7/115).

After Meinardus' death, his workshop was continued by his son Alexander Meinardus (* July 23, 1843, † June 23, 1891). In the third generation, Dietrich Meinardus' grandson Paul took over the workshop and also signed under the name Dietrich Meinardus . The grandson Siegfried (1874–1933) also became a sculptor.

literature

  • Inge Zacher: Cemetery complexes and tombs of the communal cemeteries. In: Eduard Trier , Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland . Volume IV: Plastic. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30254-2 , p. 417.

Web links

Commons : Dietrich Meinardus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 135 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ A b Herbert M. Schleicher (editor): The Golzheimer Friedhof zu Düsseldorf . In: West German Society for Family Studies e. V. (Ed.): Rheinische Friedhöfe . tape 5 . Cologne 1990, p. 126, 219 .
  3. ^ Helga Becker: Anton Josef Reiss (1835–1900). Life and work . Dissertation at the Rheinische Friedrichs-Wilhelm-Universität Bonn 2016. Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8288-3861-1 , p. 20 ( Google Books , PDF )
  4. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 187.
  5. ^ Johann Friedrich Benzenberg : Alphabetical directory of the voting members of the Protestant community in Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf 1839, p. 16, no.461
  6. ↑ CE Lehmann (Ed.): Apartment indicator and address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf per 1850 . Düsseldorf 1850, p. 126 ( Google Books )
  7. ^ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for the year 1859 . Düsseldorf 1859, p. 54 (digitized version)
  8. ^ Advertisement by D. Meinardus, sculptor, Bolkerstraße 441 , in Düsseldorfer Zeitung (No. 114) of May 13, 1834 (No. 114)
  9. ^ Tombs in the north cemetery. Figure No. 4 . In: Rheinische Post. accessed on December 2, 2018.
  10. ↑ Otto Schmitz: The Golzheimer Friedhof. A stroll through the old cemetery in Düsseldorf . Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-156-1 The Golzheimer Friedhof (PDF) ( Memento from December 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Jesuit Monument. Website on the der-golzheimer-friedhof-soll-leben.de portal , accessed on December 2, 2018.
  12. ↑ sculptor. In: Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for the year 1876. P. 95. (digitized version)
  13. ↑ The company "Meinardus" Sculpture based in Düsseldorf was entered under No. 3663 of the company register and the sculptor Paul Dietrich Meinardus as its owner here, Düsseldorf, June 10, 1896 , in Düsseldorfer Volksblatt (No. 163) dated June 15, 1896
  14. ^ Helmut Ebert: German artist directory from 1800 . Self-published, Münster 2011, p. 618. (digitized version )
  15. ^ Meinardus, Paul Diether, sculptor, owner of the D. Meinardus company, Duisburger Straße 38; Meinardus, Siegfrid, Jülicher Straße 28 , in address book for the municipality of Düsseldorf 1909, p. 364
personal data
SURNAME Meinardus, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meinardus, Diederich; Meinardus, Johann Dietrich G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and stonemason of historicism in Düsseldorf
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Ovelgönne
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1871
Place of death Dusseldorf