Franz Xaver Marmon (sculptor, 1832)
Franz Xaver Marmon , also Marmont, baptismal name Bapt. Franz Xaver, (born February 1, 1832 in Haigerloch ; † August 1, 1878 in Offenburg ) was a German sculptor and altar builder of historicism .
Life
Marmon was the son of master tailor Sebastian Marmon and his wife Kleopha (née Müller), his older brother was the later Freiburg cathedral capitular Josef Marmon (1820-1858). Since his youth he was friends with Peter Lenz (1832–1928), later Desiderius Lenz and co-founder of the Beuron art school .
He first completed an apprenticeship in the workshop of the painter, sculptor and altar builder Johann Nepomuk Meintel (1816–1872) in Horb am Neckar , which specialized in Christian art. In November 1890 he went to Munich with Peter Lenz, in 1851/52 he studied at the local art academy with the sculptor Max von Widnmann .
In 1857 Marmon opened his own workshop for church art, the Marmon art workshop in Hechingen . In 1858 he moved this to Sigmaringen . In 1859 he married Agatha (nee Pfriemer), with whom he had six children, including Alfons (1873–1928) and Franz Xaver (1879–1963), who were to succeed him in the management of the sculpture workshop. When he died of heart failure at the train station in Offenburg on his return journey from the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 at the age of 46 , his widow ran the art workshop with the help of the masters Franz Joseph Simmler (1846-1926), Anton Warth and A. Schädler until the sons could take over this.
The Marmon art workshop was one of the leading workshops for sacred art in southwest Germany in the second half of the 19th century.
plant
Marmon and his workshop worked in the tradition of the Nazarenes, especially in the neo-Gothic style , mainly for furnishing Catholic churches. The main early works include five altars for the redesign of the Freiburg Minster , created between 1869 and 1891.
For a list of the work in the workshop, see the Marmon art workshop .
literature
- Obituary in: Schwarzwälder Bote , August 22, 1878, p. 1099.
- Paul Meintel : Marmon (Marmont), Bapt. Franz Xaver . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 124 .
- Heinrich Bücheler: craftsman, sculptor and theologian. On the history of the Marmon family. In: Journal for Hohenzollern History. 35, 1999, pp. 158-160 ( digitized version ).
- Marmon, Bapt. Franz Xaver. In: Emmanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press, New York, doi: 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.B00117037 (English, beginning of article).
Web links
- FAS Sa No. 1095 - Genealogy of the Marmon family in Haigerloch. landesarchiv-bw.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Siebenmorgen : The beginnings of the “Beuron Art School”. Peter Lenz and Jakob Wüger 1850–1875. A contribution to the genesis of form abstraction in modern times. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1983, ISBN 3-7995-5028-3 , p. 26, note 6.
- ↑ Registration as Xaver Marmont .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marmon, Franz Xaver |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marmont, Franz Xaver; Marmon, Bapt. Franz Xaver (baptismal name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and altar builder of historicism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haigerloch |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1878 |
| Place of death | Offenburg |