Gottfried Renn

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Grave of the artist, main cemetery Speyer
Factory signature “Renn fct.” (Renn fecit) on the cemetery cross of the main cemetery in Speyer
Speyer Cathedral, westwork, figure and ornamental decorations by Gottfried Renn, including the portrayal of a Speyer pretzel seller (top right)
Immaculata in Frankfurt Cathedral , 1856
Signed tomb of the mother of Cardinal Franziskus von Bettinger , Bobenheim-Roxheim , with a reduced version of his Immaculate on the Marian column in Trier
Trier Marian Column from the south-southwest

Gottfried Renn (born October 15, 1818 in Imst ; † October 3, 1900 in Speyer ) was a sculptor from Austria who mainly worked in Germany.

Life

Renn was born in Imst in Tyrol as the son of the sculptor Franz Xaver Renn (1784–1875). Great-grandfather Joseph Anton Renn (1715–1790) and grandfather Josef Chrysogonus Renn (1750–1806) already had the same profession.

The father - a student of Johann Martin Fischer in Vienna - was a well-known wood sculptor and formed his own school of sculpture, from which u. a. Joseph Knabl (1819–1881) and Josef Beyrer (1839–1924) emerged. Gottfried Renn also learned wood carving there and enrolled at the Art Academy in Munich on November 25, 1836 . There he learned stone carving and was a student of Ludwig Schwanthaler . The painters Joseph Schwarzmann and Johann Schraudolph who worked there recommended him to Bishop Nikolaus von Weis for the restoration of the cathedral in Speyer . Here he settled permanently.

Renn lived in Speyer until his death in 1900. His grave is preserved in the main cemetery in Speyer (2016). In 1961 the Gottfried-Renn-Weg in the south of Speyer was named in his honor.

His brothers Josef Willhelm (1820–1894) and Franz Xaver II (1821–1842) were also sculptors. Renn's son Hermann Renn (1850–1901) worked as a sculptor in the father's workshop in Speyer. After his early death, Renn's nephew, the sculptor Julius Renn (1825–1914), continued the business in Speyer. In 1919 the house and studio in Kleine Pfaffengasse were sold to the newly founded Pilger printing house. The buildings were first rebuilt and then had to give way to a new building in 1933/34. Today the diocese archive is housed here in Kleine Pfaffengasse.

Works (selection)

Renn started a successful career as a stone and wood sculptor. Well-known works are:

There are still numerous gravestones from his hand in the Speyer cemeteries , and the neo-Gothic cemetery cross was also created by him at the Speyer main cemetery.

The sculptural legacy of the sculptor family, consisting of more than 800 model plasters, came to the Palatinate Historical Museum after 1919 .

  • St. Philipp von Zell, wooden figure from the former high altar of the Speyer Cathedral

  • Medieval Mount of Olives Speyer; Legionnaires supplemented by Renn in the foreground

  • The rose window with the symbols of the Evangelists, Speyer Cathedral, westwork

  • Demon figure at the main portal of the Speyer Cathedral

  • Demon figure at the main portal of the Speyer Cathedral

  • Carrier figure (Speyer pretzel man) at the main portal of the Speyer cathedral

  • Deidesheim Hospital Chapel , Madonna and Child, 1859

  • General view of the Cologne Marian Column

  • Gravestone of Rudolf von Habsburg

  • Düsseldorf Marian Column

  • Cemetery cross, Speyer main cemetery

  • Cemetery cross of the main cemetery in Speyer

  • War memorial 1870/71, Einselthum

  • Forst cemetery on the Weinstrasse , grave of the Spindler family

  • Forst an der Weinstrasse cemetery, grave of the Steinmetz family

literature

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Renn  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Widmoser: Tirol A to Z. Südtirol-Verlag, 1970, p. 313 ( excerpt );
    Gert Ammann: Klassizisten - Nazarener, Kunst im Oberland 1800-1850 , Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck, 1982, p. 39 ( excerpt ).
  2. ↑ Entry in the register 1809–1841 .
  3. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : Nikolaus von Weis, Bishop of Speyer, in life and work. Volume 2, Speyer 1871, p. 311.
  4. ↑ Mariological . Issue 4, 2011, pp. 6-7 ( imak-kevelaer.de PDF).
  5. ^ Albert Schwartzenberger: II. The crypt - tombstone of Rudolf von Habsburg . In: The Speyer Cathedral, the cathedral of the Frankish emperors . L. Witter, Neustadt ad Haardt 1903, p. 67–68 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - With description of the plate and mention of other works in the book).
  6. ^ Historical associations of Vienna (ed.): Festschrift for the 600th anniversary of the enfeoffment of the House of Habsburg with Austria . Self-published, Vienna 1882, p. 124–126 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Website for the Deidesheim Hospital Chapel
personal data
SURNAME Run, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Imst
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1900
Place of death Speyer