God of honor Bernhard Bendl
Ehrgott Bernhard Bendl , first name also Ehregott , last name also Bendel , Pendel and Pendl (* around 1660 near Pfarrkirchen ; † January 31, 1738 in Augsburg ) was a German sculptor and plasterer .
Life
He was the son of the sculptor Johann Christoph Bendl and the grandson of the sculptor Jakob Bendl . He probably received his training in his father's workshop until 1678. He then spent six years wandering around Prague and Vienna , perhaps also Rome and Paris . At that time the sculptor Johann Georg Bendl worked in Prague and the sculptor Ignaz Innocent Bendl in Vienna. It is believed that he was related to both of them and trained in their studios.
From 1684 to 1687 he was employed in the workshop of Johann Jakob Rill in Augsburg. In 1687 he acquired the master’s right and probably in the same year the citizenship. From then on, Bendl was one of the leading sculptors in Augsburg. In 1701/02 and 1706/07 he was head of the sculptors' guild and in 1715 corn provost.
Act
Bendl was active in southern Germany and Switzerland. He worked with wood, stone, ore and ivory and was a sought-after gold and silver modeler. In 1713 he also worked as a plasterer in the nave of the Gartlberg pilgrimage church . His greatest commission as a sculptor were six pillar figures for the monastery church of St. Georg in Augsburg. The six figures depicting God the Father, the four evangelists and Paul are in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg .
In the Marienkapelle of the Augsburg cathedral he created the figurative decoration of the altar. In the Basilica of St. Ulrich and Afra , he made the woodwork of the lattice on the vestibule from 1712 and the confessionals from the same year. In St. Moritz around 1720 he left the apostles in the side aisles. In 1730, he furnished the monastery church of the monastery of the Franciscan Sisters of Maria Stern with his sculptures.
He participated in the pilgrimage church of Biberbach from 1712 to 1714 with the carvings on the side altars. In the former Benedictine monastery church of Kloster Holzen , he contributed the side figures Zacharias, Elisabeth, Joachim and Anna to the high altar in 1730/31. In the pilgrimage church of Maria Hilf in Klosterlechfeld , the pulpit and the side figures of the altar of the Chapel of Grace Joseph and John the Baptist are ascribed to him (around 1720). In the Marienmünster of Dießen am Ammersee he created the altar of the cross and rosary.
In addition, other figures from Bendl have been preserved, including a wooden relief with the three holy kings in the Bavarian National Museum . From 1714 to 1715 he carved the model of a silver sculpture of St. Sebastian, which was then carried out by the Augsburg goldsmith Johann Heinrich Mannlich. The model and the silver statue are in the parish church of St. Peter in Neuburg an der Donau .
literature
- God of honor Bernhard Bendl . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 13, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22753-1 , pp. 630ff.
- Hertha Lünenschloss: Bendl, Ehrgott Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 40 f. ( Digitized version ).
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| SURNAME | Bendl, God of Honor Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bendl, God of Honor Bernhard; Bendel, Ehrgott Bernhard; Pendulum, Ehrgott Bernhard; Pendl, God of Honor Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and plasterer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1660 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parish churches |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1738 |
| Place of death | augsburg |