Ferdinand Luidl

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Our Lady in the parish church in Herrenstetten (1705)

Ferdinand Luidl (* 8. October 1670 in Landsberg am Lech ; † 22. March 1736 in Hegelhofen ) was a German sculptor of the Baroque , in Hegelhofen at White Horn ran his own workshop.

Life

Ferdinand Luidl's parents were the sculptor Lorenz Luidl and the city's pale daughter Maria Miller from Landsberg am Lech . His father ran a flourishing sculptor's workshop there. In the Landsberger Brotherhood's ledger it is noted that Ferdinand Luidl joined his father Lorenz as a journeyman on March 24, 1686 . Following the tradition of the craftsmen , Ferdinand Luidl went on a journey after completing his apprenticeship. It is not known where this led him. On August 23, 1699, his name is again recorded in the Landsberg citizenship book. Presumably he was working again in his father's workshop. Whether and why there was a rift and the move from Landsberg must remain open in the absence of relevant sources.

Apostle Paul in the parish church in Oberroth (around 1710/20).

The next reliable document can be found in the parish registers of Illereichen , where he married Margarete Denle, the daughter of the hunter Hans Denle, on May 22, 1703. Ferdinand's wife Margarete died on January 12, 1704. A short time later he married a second time. Only the first names Anna Maria are known of his second wife. On January 18, 1706 the son Sebastian was born in Illereichen. No later than early 1707 drew Ferdinand Luidl with a family to Hegelhofen in the immediate vicinity of the Fugger city Weißenhorn. At least six other children were born there. Luidl's wife Anna Maria died in April 1733. The fact that Ferdinand Luidl was the guarantor for the purchase of another house of his son in Weißenburg in 1735 with 475 guilders and in 1736 again with 100 guilders speaks for a certain prosperity .

Ferdinand Luidl died surprisingly on March 22, 1736 in Hegelhofen. The entry on his death describes him as a “virtuoso artist who, with all his heart and soul, was suddenly struck by a blow at 9 o'clock in the evening.” Today, around 90 works by Ferdinand Luidl are known. His most important student was Johann Adam Hops .

Works (selection)

  • Altenstadt (district of Neu-Ulm) - Filial church of the Birth of Mary: formerly Pietà on the tabernacle on the high altar (around 1720/30); St. Joachim and Anna (around 1720)
  • Anhofen - Filial church St. Maria Immaculata: St. John the Baptist and Wendelin; four church fathers at the pulpit (all around 1720)
  • Autenried - Parish Church St. Stephan: St. Joseph and Anna Selbdritt (around 1710/20)
  • Babenhausen - Parish Church of St. Andreas: Maria Immakulata and St. Joseph
  • Biberachzell - Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary: Anna Selbdritt (around 1720)
  • Book - Parish Church of St. Valentin: St. Antonius (early 18th century)
  • Eberstall - St. Anna chapel next to the castle: Maria with Anna and Joachim (1710/20)
  • Ettlishofen - Expositurkirche St. Ulrich and Leonhard: St. Leonhard (around 1720)
  • Gutenzell - former Cistercian convent church: four large figures on the side altars (around 1705)
  • Hegelhofen - St. Stephan parish church: twelve apostles with Salvator and Maria (around 1720/30).
  • Herrenstetten - St. Martin parish church: Mother of God (around 1705), an early work by Luidl; Resurrection Christ (1st half of the 18th century)
  • Hittistetten - St. Leonhard's branch church: St. Leonhard (around 1727)
  • Illereichen - Chapel of St. Sebastian and Rochus: St. Joachim and Anna formerly on the east wall, now in the branch church of the Birth of Mary in Altenstadt (around 1720)
  • Illereichen - Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary: Pietá (around 1720/30), until 1745 in the former Meinrad Chapel on the Münchburg; St. Anna with Maria (around 1715)
  • Niederhausen - Filial church St. Dominikus: St. Antonius and Leonhard (around 1730/40).
  • Oberroth - St. Stephan parish church: 15 figures of the apostles with Salvator and Maria (around 1710/20)
  • Roggenburg - Premonstratensian Monastery Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary: St. Joseph (around 1730)
  • Silheim - Parish Church of St. Apollonia: St. Apollonia and Antonius of Padua (around 1730)
  • Unterdettingen - old parish church St. Martin: Anna Selbdritt (around 1705)
  • Vöhringen - new parish church St. Michael: Lecture cross (1708)
  • Wallenhausen - Parish Church of St. Mauritius: Maria as Apocalyptic Woman and St. Johann Nepomuk (around 1730).
  • Wallenhausen - Leonhard's Chapel: large porter angel on the pulpit, symbols of the evangelists on the sound cover, putti and trumpet angels on the pulpit (around 1715)
  • Weißenhorn - Spitalkirche Heilig-Geist: St. Sebastian (around 1720)
  • Witzighausen - Parish and pilgrimage church of Mary's birth: Anna Selbdritt (around 1730)
  • Wullenstetten - Parish Church of the Annunciation: Painful Madonna (around 1710)

literature

  • Josef Christa : The Luidl family of sculptors. A memorial sheet for March 22nd and April 10th, the 200th anniversary of the death of the brothers Ferdinand and Stephan Luidl, in: Schwabenland 2 (1936), issue 4, pp. 125-138.
  • Heinrich Habel: City and District of Neu-Ulm (= Bayerische Kunstdenkmale XXIV), Munich 1966.
  • Heinrich Habel: District Illertissen (= Bavarian Art Monuments XXVII); Munich 1967.
  • Matthias Kunze: Weißenhorn - a regional art center between late baroque and classicism, in: Erich Mennel / Wolfgang Ott: Weißenhorner Profile 1160 - 2010 - contributions and studies on the history of the city (= catalogs and publications of the Weißenhorn Heimatverein Volume 5), Weißenhorn 2010, p. 281 -302.
  • Norbert Lieb : The Luidl, a family of sculptors of the Bavarian and Swabian Baroque, in: Das Münster 3 (1950), pp. 247–250.
  • Klaus Münzer: Lorenz Luidls Sculptor Sons, in: Landesberger Geschichtsblätter 102 (2003), pp. 33–39.
  • Monika Soffner-Loibl: Parish community Buch - Unterroth - Oberroth - Ritzisried (= Peda art guide No. 1026), Passau 2018.
  • Klaus Wankmiller: Ferdinand Luidl (1670–1736). On the 350th birthday of the Hegelhof sculptor with Landsberg roots , in: Landsberger Geschichtsblätter 119 (2020), pp. 31–44.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christa (1936), pp. 123-138.
  2. ↑ Christa (1936), pp. 123-138.
  3. ↑ Kunze (2010), pp. 281-302.
  4. ↑ Wankmiller (2020), p. 33.
  5. ↑ Wankmiller (2020), pp. 31–44, with an extensive catalog raisonné.
personal data
SURNAME Luidl, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baroque sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg am Lech
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1736
Place of death Hegelhofen