Georg Leonhard Weber

Georg Leonhard Weber (* 1665/1670 in Franconia ; † after 1732) was a German sculptor who ran a studio in Schweidnitz and mainly worked in Silesia .

life and work

When Weber married in Schweidnitz on November 24, 1698, it was noted in the corresponding marriage entry that he was the son of Johann Balthasar Weber, “Sculptor at Ihro hochfürstl. Your Highness from Schwartzenburg ”. On September 6, 1699 his son Johann was baptized in Schweidnitz. At that time he was probably already running a sculptor's studio there. From the beginning of the 18th century he created numerous works, including in collaboration with the Jesuit Johann Riedel , the Dresden-born August Gottfried Hoffmann, Johann Adam Karinger and Franz Joseph Mangoldt , who was married to a daughter of Weber.

It is probable that Weber had a son of the same name, because Georg Leonhard Weber, born in Schweidnitz, is documented as a sculptor journeyman in Brno for the year 1725 .

Works (selection)

• Schweidnitz:
  • Parish Church of St. Stanislaus and Wenceslas: Figures for the organ prospectus; Pillar figures of hll. Barbara, Martin, Wolfgang, Petrus, Margarethe, Laurentius, John the Baptist, Nicholas and Paulus (1709/10)
  • Atlas fountain on the north-western corner of the ring (1716)
  • Figures at the town hall: St. Florian (1720, donated by Hans Anton von Schaffgotsch ); St. John of Nepomuk (1718)
  • Neptune Fountain on the northwest corner of the town hall (1732)
  • Grüssauer Haus , city residence of the Grüssau abbots : portal with pilasters and consoles, vases and princely coats of arms as well as nine busts for the great hall (1723–1725)
• Wroclaw :
  • Dorotheenkirche : two figures of St. John on the triumphal arch (1716; attributed )
  • St. Adalbert , alabaster work for the Ceslaus chapel: sarcophagus of St. Ceslaus with 26 round reliefs and statues (1711/30; together with the sculptors Franz Joseph Mangoldt, Johann Adam Karinger and the stonemason Urban Rauscher)
• Bunzlau
  • Parish Church of the Assumption: Figures of the Virgin Mary and St. Hedwig, Joseph, Johannes Nepomuk, Rochus and Sebastian (1723); architectural main altar with statues of hll. Petrus, Paulus, Augustinus, Nikolaus, Lorenz, Stephan, Wenzel and Leopold as well as on the upper pedestals the statues of St. Hedwig and Ludmilla as well as Spes and Karitas (1723–1725)
  • Two larger than life sandstone figures: Zeus and Hercules (1701, for private collection)
• Hirschberg , in front of the town hall: stone fountain with figure of Neptune (1727; attributed)
• Namslau , Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul: Mount of Olives relief for the Mount of Olives carved altar (after 1720)
• Reichenbach : Parish Church of St. Georg: Figures of the hll. Johannes Nepomuk (1720) and Georg (1727; attributed)
• Reinerz : Marian column on the market with the figures of hll. Florian and Sebastian (1725)
• Warmbrunn : Nepomuk figure on the bridge over the Zacken , as a foundation of the Counts Schaffgotsch (1712)

literature

• Weber, Georg Leonhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 219 .
• Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 57, 71, 152, 272, 275, 392, 396, 640, 928, 933, 934, 1065 and 1068.
• Ludwig Petry , Josef Joachim Menzel (ed.): History of Silesia. Volume 2: The Habsburg Period 1526–1740. 2nd edition, Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1988, ISBN 3-7995-6342-3 , p. 191.