Ferdinand Custodis

Ferdinand Joseph Friedrich Custodis (born April 9, 1842 in Cologne ; † 1911 there ) was a German sculptor . His work is particularly to be assigned to historicism .

Life

Ferdinand Custodis grew up in a foster family after the early death of his parents . Nothing is known about his training. From 1871 he worked in the studio of the Cologne cathedral sculptor Peter Fuchs and was involved in his life's work to produce around 700 sculptures for the Cologne cathedral . Even before the portal sculptures on the west and north facade of the High Cathedral were completed, Custodis set up his own business with the figurative decoration of two fountains in Kleve . Custodis ran his studio at Palmgasse 6 in Cologne.

In addition to a large number of sculptural works on both sacred and secular buildings, Custodis was successful as a tomb builder in and around Cologne. In Cologne's Melaten Central Cemetery alone, 22 grave monuments that were created by him can be located . From 1905 his son Friedrich Custodis continued the sculptor's studio. Ferdinand Custodis was married to Agnes Ostermann from Aachen .

Works (if known)

Graves in the Melatenfriedhof

The following 22 grave complexes (structured according to "date of work / family name / type of grave / position") are located on Melaten :

• 1890: Streiffler / Schulz / Bachern , figure stele with cheeks, fl. 55, No. 94-97
• 1890: Wilfert / v. Thelen / Fröhlich , Kreuzstele, Lit. H, No. 245–246
• 1890: Scheben / Muschard , Kreuzstele, Fl. 66, No. 38-39
• 1895: Mertens , former cross stele, Fl. 58, numbers 66-67
• 1895: Custodis / Thywissen , stele with pillow stones, HWG, No. 336
• 1896: van Broeck , stele, fl. 63, No. 151-152
• 1896: Weiser , former cross stele, Fl. 59, nos. 43-44
• 1899: Bonn / Recht / Taubert , figure stele, fl. R2, nos. 32-33
• 1901: Endepols , Kreuzstele, Fl. 73, nos. 36-37
• 1903: Wilz , former cross stele, Fl. 87, numbers 196-197
• 1903: Kretzer / Helfrich / Dörr , cross stele with cheeks, fl. 67a, no. 6
• 1903: Nolden / Guntermann , Kreuzstele, Fl. 80, No. 6-7
• 1903: Hartung / Rautenberg , Obelisk, Fl. 89, no. 197-198
• 1904: Jost , cross stele with cheeks, fl. 82, No. 52-55
• 1904: Bosch / Holl / Wild , Obelisk, Fl. 83, nos. 22-23
• 1904: Schmidting , former figure stele, Fl. W1, nos. 18-19
• 1905: Waxweiler / v. Rüdgisch , Hochstele, Fl. 67a, No. 10
• 1905: Klein / Weier , Kreuzstele, Fl. 77, No. 63
• 1907: Meininghaus , aedicula with cheeks, fl. 93, No. 36-37
• 1908: Müller , Ädikula, Fl. 73, nos. 20-21
• 1908: Jost / Mungen / Soddemann , cross stele with cheeks, fl. 98, nos. 18-19
• 1910: Küpper , stele, Fl. 74, nos. 20-22

Other works

• 1874/75: Kierdorf , erection of a main altar ( refectory by F. Custodis, retable by Heinrich Joseph Koulen ) for the parish church of St. Martinus, built in the neo-Romanesque style
• 1875: Hoffnungsthal (Rösrath) , war memorial in the former Volberg churchyard for the fallen from 1870/71
• 1875: Hoffnungsthal (Rösrath) , Tomb of Christopher Heinrich Theodor Müllenbach , as Volberger angel known
• 1878: Kleve , fountain for Otto the Schützen , design by Vincenz Statz with the participation of Edward von Steinle and the Klever stonemason Grod, who was responsible for the architectural sculptural work. The fountain was initially set up at the corner of Kirchstrasse and Hagsche Strasse, was moved to the end of the Prinzenhof in 1916 and was destroyed by the Second World War (1944).
• 1881/82: Kleve , Swan Knight Fountain, design by Vincenz Statz with the participation of Edward von Steinle.
• 1887: Cologne , sculptures at the motherhouse of the Cellitinnen according to the rule of St. Augustine in Severinstrasse. After the Second World War, only the robed figures of Mary , Joseph and St. Augustine have been preserved. Set up in the sculpture garden of the Augustinian Hospital in Cologne since 2004.
• 1891–1896: Cologne , participation in the sculptural furnishing of Neu-St. Heribert in Cologne-Deutz
• 1892–1901: Cologne , participation in the production of the figures for the Cologne town hall tower
• 1900: Geldern , sculpture of the Descent from the Cross in the Catholic Parish Church of St. Maria Magdalena (SQA)

Images of tombstones

The following tombstones are under monument protection.

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  Figure stele m. Wangen corridor 55, 94–97

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  Corridor 63, 151–152

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  High column hall 67a, 10

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  Cross stele m. Wangen Hall 98, 18–19

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  Cross stele lit. H, 245–246

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  Figure stele Fl. R2, 32-33

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  Müllenbach tomb, Hope Valley cemetery

literature

• Josef Abt, Wolfgang Vomm: The Cologne cemetery Melaten: Encounter with the past and the forgotten from Rhenish history and art , Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7743-0182-4

• Josef Abt, Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten: Kölner Gräber und Geschichte , Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3

• Marianne Vogt-Werling, Michael Werling : The Melaten Cemetery: All monuments and their future. With a DVD with an allocation plan and digital tours of all monumental graves , Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7743-0471-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Paul Georg Custodis: The sculptor Ferdinand Joseph Friedrich Custodis , in: Kölner Domblatt , Jahrbuch des Zentral-Dombauverein, edited by Willy Weyres and Herbert Rode, Cologne 1975, p. 217 ff.
2. ↑ Custodis ran a sculptor's studio at Palmgasse 6, from 1892 at Antoniterstraße 16, then at Hohestraße 47, Steinstraße 37 and with a second shop at Bonnerstraße 81 (see Josef Abt: Sculptors and stone masons in Cologne address books 1797-1941 / 42 , Cologne 1986, p. 11)
3. ↑ See Vogt-Werling / Michael Werling 2010. The individual items can be found on the enclosed DVD
4. ↑ Michael Werling, Erika Wagner, Elisabeth Klein: Volberg. From churchyard to cemetery, monuments and personalities, Rösrath 2012, p. 78 ff.
5. ↑ Michael Werling, Erika Wagner, Elisabeth Klein: Volberg. From churchyard to cemetery, monuments and personalities, Rösrath 2012, p. 92 ff.
6. ↑ The monument to Otto der Schütz ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 12, 2012 
7. ↑ See Hans Vogts , Vincenz Statz . Art gift of the Association for Christian Art, Cologne-Aachen 1959/60 or Guide through Cleve and the surrounding area , Kleve 1912
8. ↑ Laudation on the occasion of the exhibition opening ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 11, 2012, 4:24 p.m.  
9. ↑ See Christoph Joosten: Catholic Parish Church St. Maria Magdalena, Geldern 2004