Georg Friedrich Schmiegd

Organ brochure , Walldürn pilgrimage church (1722)

Georg Friedrich Schmiegd (* 1688 in Aschaffenburg , † 8. December 1753 in Neustadt on the Wine Route ) was a German wood and stone sculptor of the Baroque .

Life

Angel from Deidesheim, in the Neustadt / Weinstrasse collegiate church (1732)

Figure of Mary on the staircase of the Amorbach monastery church (1720)

Another figure of Schmiegd on the staircase of the Amorbach monastery church (1720)

He was born the son of a baker from Aschaffenburg. His older brother Honorius Schmiegd was a Benedictine priest in the Amorbach monastery and had the Marian column built in Mudau . The family name is correctly reproduced on the dedication inscription there, otherwise there are also name variants such as Schmich , Schmicht , Schmieg or Schmigdt in the literature .

Georg Friedrich Schmiegd married on May 3, 1710, in Amorbach , Anna Maria Dorff (also Dorst), daughter of a customs officer. In 1725 he got into disputes with the Kurmainzer bailiff Johann von Ostein (brother of the later Archbishop Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein ), who wrote about him that year that "he does not do well in stone work ... also slow and dissolute" . The disagreements went u. a. back to the slow production of the organ prospectus for the Wallfahrtskirche Walldürn , for which the contract had already been concluded in 1713, but delivery did not take place until 1722.

In 1725 Schmiegd left Amorbach with his family and went to the left bank of the Rhine. On the occasion of work in the parish church of St. Ulrich , the pastor of Deidesheim wrote about him in 1732 that he was employed by Mr. von Dalberg two years ago, but that he is now serving as a sculptor for the Count of Leiningen-Hardenburg in Dürkheim . The artist settled with his family in Neustadt an der Haardt (today Neustadt an der Weinstrasse), where he died in 1753.

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Georg Friedrich Schmiegd worked in wood and stone. Many of his creations have been lost, some probably still exist without knowing the name of the artist.

The following works are reliably verifiable:

• 1710, figures of St. Simplicius and Faustinus for the church in Steinbach near Mudau (not preserved).
• 1711 u. 1712, plastic jewelry of Nothelfer -Altares, altar relief of the 14 helpers, two associated Verdachungsengel and 12 apostles, and the Verdachungsengel of Marie altar, all for the Catholic. Church in Hainstadt near Buchen (partially preserved, apostle figures in the Buchen district museum )
• 1713 gravestone for the Amorbach abbot Cölestin Mann (not preserved)
• 1716 Crucifixion group at the parish church of St. Laurentius in Neudenau (signed and dated), as well as additional work on the Gothic crucifixion group on the Lindenplatz there
• 1720 figures on the staircase of the Amorbach Abbey Church
• 1722 Organ brochure for the Walldürn pilgrimage church
• 1723 plastic jewelry on the main portal of the pilgrimage church Walldürn
• 1724 St. Johannes Nepomuk , carved wooden figure for the church in Kirchzell near Amorbach
• 1724 Gravestone for the Amorbach abbot Sanderad Breunig (not preserved)
• 1726 Carvings on a wine barrel from Amorbach Abbey
• 1732 plastic decoration of the new high altar in the parish church of St. Ulrich, Deidesheim . Two life-size wooden suspicion angels have been preserved, one (as a permanent loan) in the Neustadt an der Weinstrasse collegiate church (left of the high altar), the other in the Catholic church in Niederauerbach near Zweibrücken .
• 1739 Figures of St. Joseph and St. John Nepomuk at Oberhambach town hall (not preserved)
• 1745 wooden crucifix for the cath. Church of Diedesfeld .

It can be assumed that the Mudau Marian Column erected by his brother in 1736 is also one of his works.

children

Georg Friedrich Schmiegd and his wife had two sons, Franz (1715–1795) and Conrad (1720–1780). Both also worked as wood and stone sculptors.

Franz became a citizen in Koblenz in 1751, where he married in 1753. In 1753 he created a Nepomuk figure for the Johannesbrücke in Düren (destroyed in World War II ), as well as two holy figures on an altar in St. Kastor Koblenz ; today in Düngenheim .

Conrad Schmiegd married in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in 1751, where he also died in 1780. The five high altar figures in the collegiate church there are attributed to him, he also made the statues on the high altar of the parish church in Diedesfeld in 1758 and a wooden crucifixion group for the Deidesheim hospital chapel in 1765 .

Conrad Schmiegd's son Johann Baptist Schmigd (1752–1828) was a well-known doctor in Düsseldorf .

literature

• Parish church St. Ulrich Deidesheim, Festschrift for the consecration of the altar in 1987 , Kath. Pfarramt Deidesheim, 1987, pp. 53, 54 and 138, 139.
• Artist Lexicon Thieme – Becker, Volume 30, 1936, p. 172, (online view)
• Paul Habermehl: Baroque baptismal fonts in the Vorderpfalz: Artists and craftsmen in the first half of the 18th century , Pilger Verlag, Speyer, 1999, ISBN 3876370671 , pp. 290-293.

Web links

• Genealogical website about the person

Individual evidence

1. ^ Article of December 10, 2005, in the Heilbronner Voice newspaper ; Online view
2. ↑ open staircase | Maximilian von Welsch | Image index of art & architecture - Image index of art & architecture - Homepage Image index. Retrieved July 4, 2019 . 
3. ↑ organ | Christian Dauphin, German | Image index of art & architecture - Image index of art & architecture - Homepage Image index. Retrieved July 4, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Website of the Diedesfeld Church with a mention of the artist ( Memento from May 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , born in 1828, 1st part, Ilmenau, 1830, p. 186 u. 187; (Digital scan)