Ferdinand Dietz

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Tietz sculpture in the Trier palace garden

Adam Ferdinand Dietz , also Tietz (baptized July 5, 1708 in Ulbersdorf (Bohemia); † June 17, 1777 at Seehof Castle near Memmelsdorf ) was a German Rococo sculptor . He worked at five princely seats: Bamberg (1749–1754), Würzburg (1736–1754) Trier (from 1754), Speyer and Cologne . In 1760 he returned to Bamberg. He served under six bishops, including three from the Schönborn family .

life and work

Ferdinand Tietz was the second son of the sculptor Johann Adam Dietz (Ferdinand changed the name to Tietz). He and his older brother learned the craft of sculpting in their father's workshop. He then worked for the Prague sculptor Matthias Bernhard Braun and in 1736 for Balthasar Neumann in Würzburg.

His first independent work was the figures for the high altar in Gaukönigshofen near Ochsenfurt.

He created a large number of sculptures, some of which are in museums in Würzburg and Nuremberg. Ten baroque sculptures are in the castle chapel in Malberg (Eifel) . Two more sculptures are placed in the herb garden of the Pharmacy Museum Bad Münstereifel .

His main works are the garden sculptures in the garden of Veitshöchheim Castle (1763–1768) and in Seehof Castle near Bamberg (1762–1768). For the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Memmelsdorf , which is located near Seehof Castle , he created twelve statues of angels and saints, which were erected on pillars of the new churchyard wall.

The garden art museum in Schloss Fantaisie in Eckersdorf -Donndorf presents the allegorical statues of the four seasons that Dietz made for the palace gardens of Veitshöchheim. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a number of Tietz bozzetti in its collection.

gallery

literature

  • Dietz, Ferdinand . In: Harald Olbrich (Ed.): Lexicon of Art. Architecture, fine arts, applied arts, industrial design, art theory. Volume 2 (Cin - Gree). Revised edition, Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-423-05906-0 (digital edition: Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-89853-743-8 ).
  • Berthold Fiedler: The cascade in the park of Seehof Castle. Restored 1983–1995. Festschrift on the occasion of the ceremony on July 22, 1995 . Landbauamt Bamberg, Bamberg 1995.
  • Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann : Ferdinand Tietz 1708–1777. Studies on work, style and iconography (= Diss. Phil. Kiel 1981). Weißenhorn 1989, ISBN 3-87437-228-6 (978-3-87437-228-2).
  • Ursula Röhlig:  Dietz, Adam Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , pp. 704-706 ( digitized version ).
  • Alfred Schelter, Michael Petzet : Seehof Castle and Park. Bamberg, Memmelsdorf. Official leader . Bavarian Palace Administration , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-932982-60-6 .
  • Hans-Peter Trenschel: Ferdinand Tietz in Würzburg 1736–1747. Contributions to the early work of the sculptor . Würzburg 2008, ISBN 3-9800538-5-7 .

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Tietz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Alwin Reindl: The saints on the churchyard wall . In: New Times - New Churches - New Piety . Self-published, Memmelsdorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027404-6 , p. 99 ff .
  2. Dancing flute player made of wood, height 19.7 cm; Bozzetto of the Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/207688