Franz Conrad Linck

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Carl Theodor Statue ( Old Bridge in Heidelberg)
Personal signature on the epitaph Stengel, Mannheim

Franz Conrad Linck (born December 16, 1730 in Speyer , † October 13, 1793 in Mannheim ) was a German sculptor . He worked as a court sculptor from the Electoral Palatinate .

biography

Franz Conrad Linck was the son of the sculptor Johann Georg Linck (1707–1746) and his wife Anna Maria geb. Gescheider (1705–1779) was born in Speyer and trained in his father's workshop. He died when he was 15 years old, and his mother married in 1748 with the sculptor Vinzenz Möhring , formerly the father's senior journeyman. This is also likely to have had a strong influence on Franz Conrad Linck's early training.

Around 1750 Linck went on a journey and stayed in Würzburg for a year . From 1753 he studied at the Kk court academy of painters, sculptors and architecture in Vienna . After completing his studies, he worked with Jakob Schletter in Vienna and with Georg Franz Eberhecht in Berlin , where he was involved in creating the park figures for Sanssouci Palace .

In 1757 Franz Conrad Linck returned to Speyer. Elector Karl Theodor appointed him to the Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory in 1762 and appointed him court sculptor a year later. From 1766 Linck worked on the sculptures for the Schwetzingen palace gardens . In the last years of his life he designed the monumental statues of Elector Carl Theodor (1788) and Minerva (1790) on the Alte Brücke in Heidelberg . Franz Conrad Linck died on October 13, 1793 in Mannheim.

Franz Conrad Linck was married to Eva Katharina Weber (1747–1812) from Hockenheim since 1768 . The couple had three daughters and their son Franz Arnold Linck (1769–1838), later ennobled and district president of Upper Palatinate and Swabia (Bavaria) .

Franz Conrad Linck's younger brother Peter Anton Linck (1743–1824) was also a sculptor. He lived and worked in Speyer, where he a. a. commissioned by canon Karl Joseph von Mirbach made a copy of the famous Speyer Madonna of Mercy, which is now in the convent church of St. Magdalena monastery . He did not achieve the fame of his older brother.

Works by Franz Conrad Linck

literature

  • Maria Christiane Werhahn: The Palatinate court sculptor Franz Conrad Linck (1730–1793). Neuss 1999.
  • Helmut Prückner: The elector and the goddess of the arts. Conrad Linck's stills on the Old Bridge . In: Helmut Prückner (Ed.): The old bridge in Heidelberg. Heidelberg 1988.
  • Ludwig Nieser:  Linck, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 804-807.

Web links

Commons : Franz Conrad Linck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical page on Vinzenz Möhring ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2014 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.firetex.de
  2. ↑ Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben, 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , page 528
personal data
SURNAME Linck, Franz Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linck, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1793
Place of death Mannheim