Franz Sales Glänz

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Franz Glänz's bishop's throne in Freiburg Cathedral

Franz Sales Glänz (born January 1810 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † May 12, 1855 ibid) was a German carpenter and wood sculptor in Freiburg who worked in the neo-Gothic style .

life and work

Franz Glänz was the son of the carpenter and wood sculptor Joseph Glänz (1778–1841) and was baptized on January 24, 1810 in St. Martin's Church. He learned in his father's workshop and took it over after his father's death.

Together with his father, Glänz manufactured parts of the new interior for the Freiburg Minster , such as the Marien Altar for the south aisle in 1826/27 (replaced by a new altar in 1891), the choir stalls in 1827/28, and the new altarpiece with substructure and 1831–33 Demolition for the high altar by Hans Baldung Grien , in 1834 the conversion of the original altar of the Schnewlin Chapel into two altars for the choir chapels; 1839 the cross altar.

In 1838 Franz Glänz carved an antependium for the Communion Chapel of the cathedral. In 1842/43 he created the ornamentation of the new cathedral bell (removed 1947–59). In 1845–48 he finished the archbishop's throne based on a draft submitted in 1834.

In 1838 he and his father carried out the renovation of the high altar of Master HL in the Breisach Minster on behalf of Grand Duke Leopold von Baden .

In 1841/44 he created three altars and the pulpit for the Church of St. Hilary in Bollschweil , of which only the pulpit remains today.

The work of Glänz was also valued by noble clients. In 1840, Duke Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach visited him in his workshop and gave him orders, and he also awarded him his brother, Grand Duke Karl Friedrich von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, the Silver Civil Merit Medal , which the Baden Grand Duke Leopold gave him on June 20 1845 allowed to accept and wear. On August 1, 1845, Leopold was in town for the inauguration of the Freiburg train station and allowed a fountain on Münsterplatz to be named Leopoldsbrunnen . The design for the Leopoldsbrunnen came from Glänz. The stonemason Karl Widmann carried out it, but not to the complete satisfaction of Glänz. The fountain replaced the late Gothic Georgsbrunnen, but was replaced in 1935 by a replica of the same, designed by Carl Anton Meckel and implemented by Wilhelm von Kittlitz . In 1841 he made furniture for Ortenberg Castle and worked on furnishing the Gothic room in the Haus zum Schönen Eck in Basel .

Probably because of his design for the Freiburg bishop's chair, he received an order from Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia in 1847 , which he carried out in 1848. When Wilhelm was in Freiburg in July 1849 to suppress the Baden Revolution , he received further commissions. These are three throne-like chairs for the dining room of Babelsberg Palace near Potsdam (lost today).

From 1853 he increasingly suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , which led to numerous spa stays. Until 1854, he and Alois Knittel , who was in charge of Freiburg at the time , were the only two sculptors listed in the Freiburg address book, after which their number increased significantly.

His marriage to Franziska Hettich from St. Märgen in 1833 resulted in five sons, three of whom also worked as carpenter and wood sculptor and took over his workshop: Franz August Glänz (1830–1863), Franz Otto Glänz (1837–1907) and Max (imilian) Glänz (1839-1868). The son Joseph Heinrich became a doctor, the son Hermann a mechanic.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ familysearch.org: Germany Geburten und Taufen , 1558–1898 , accessed on July 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ On the altar there were also two portrait statuettes of Joseph and Franz Glänz by the sculptor Joseph Maier, illustration by Kempf pp. 52–53 Fig. 2–3.
  3. ↑ Kempf 63 Fig. 8 (original condition); Bernd Mathias Kremer: On the history of the restoration of the Freiburg cathedral in the 19th century. In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 121, 2001, pp. 53–84, esp. Pp. 75–77 Fig. 19 (original condition). 20 (after the mutilation) ( digitized version ); Heike Mittmann, Bernd Mathias Kremer: The Freiburg Minster after its completion. In: Freiburger Münsterbauverein (Hrsg.): The Freiburg Minster. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-1685-0 , pp. 94–95 Fig. 20. The throne is only preserved today in a mutilated form, the canopies were destroyed in 1953, the figures of Alois Knittel largely preserved in the Münsterbauhütte.
  4. ^ Hermann Brommer: Catholic parish church St. Hilarius Bollschweil. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1994, p. 4. 21.
  5. ↑ Kempf p. 54. 56.
  6. ↑ Grossherzoglich-Baden Government Gazette 43, 1845, p. 154 .
  7. ↑ Friedrich Kempf: Public fountains and monuments . In: Baden Architects and Engineers Association, Upper Rhine District (Ed.): Freiburg im Breisgau. The city and its buildings . HM Poppen & Sohn, Freiburg im Breisgau 1898, p. 489 ( Scan - Wikisource ).
  8. ^ Karl Schuster : Building history about the Freiburg Minster from old chronicles . In: Freiburger Münsterblätter 7, 1911, p. 38 ( digitized version ).
  9. ^ EW Meckel: The St. Georgsbrunnen on the Münsterplatz in Freiburg im Breisgau . In: Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege 1936, pp. 97–99; Rosemarie Beck, Roland Meinig: Fountain in Freiburg . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1991, ISBN 3-7930-0550-X , p. 26 f.
  10. ↑ Kempf p. 62; Daniel Parello: From Helmle to Geiges. A century of historicist glass painting in Freiburg . Stadtarchiv, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, ISBN 3-00-006521-0 , pp. 106-107.
  11. ↑ Kempf pp. 55-57.
  12. ^ Georg Poensgen : Babelsberg Castle . Berlin 1929, p. 48; Jörg Meier: Furniture of the late Biedermeier and historicism. The reigns of the Prussian kings Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1840–1861) and Wilhelm I (1861–1888) . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004353-1 , p. 340 f .; here fig. 18 a drawing from 1849 attributed to Glänz.
  13. ↑ Michael Klant: Forgotten sculptors. In: ders. (Ed.): Sculpture in Freiburg . Volume 2: 19th Century Art in Public Space . Modo, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , p. 166.
  14. ↑ He studied at the Munich Art Academy from 1860 ; Entry in the matriculation database .
  15. ^ A (otherwise undetectable) Adolph Glänz appears in the Freiburg address book in 1856, August Glänz is named from 1858, the Glänz brothers are named from 1865, Otto Glänz from 1869, Otto Glänz & Sohn (Belfortstrasse 18) from 1890 to 1907. See the historical address books of the city of Freiburg .
  16. ↑ Schematic family tree In: Johanna Pölzl: How the church came into the village. A short local history of Kirchzartens. Dreisam Druck, Kirchzarten 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814630-0-2 , p. 133.
personal data
SURNAME Glänz, Franz Sales
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German carpenter and wood sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH baptized January 24, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1855
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau