Ignaz Günther

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Ignaz Günther (painter: Martin Knoller 1774, Bavarian National Museum )
Memorial stone for the sculptor Ignaz Günther at the monastery church of St. Marinus and Anianus in Rott a. Inn
The Ignaz Günther House in Munich

Franz Ignaz Günther (born November 22, 1725 in Altmannstein ; † June 27, 1775 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and representative of the Bavarian Rococo .

Life

His father Johann Georg (1704–1783) and his grandfather Johann Leonhard (1673–1738) had already been involved in handicrafts. He learned his first craft skills in his father's carpentry shop in Altmannstein. From 1743 to 1750 he was a student of Johann Baptist Straub in Munich. The traveling journeyman years took him to Salzburg (1750), to the court sculptor Paul Egell in Mannheim (1751/52) and to Olomouc in Moravia (1752). From May to November 1753 he attended the sculpture class at the Academy in Vienna , where he acquired the “First Premium of Sculpture”. After the recognition as a court-exempted and thus guild- free sculptor by Elector Maximilian III. Joseph he was able to establish his own workshop in Munich in 1754. From 1757 he was married to Maria Magdalena Hollmayr, daughter of a silver dealer from Huglfing ; the marriage resulted in nine children. In 1761 the family bought a property on the Obere Anger in Munich.

Ignaz Günther worked primarily for church clients. His church furnishings , altars and, above all, his expressive and lively robed figures represent a high point of Rococo sculpture. In his work as a whole, influences of classicism can also be seen from 1766 onwards .

In 1997 the Altmannstein market (district of Eichstätt) built an Ignaz Günther Museum. The Ignaz-Günther-Gymnasium in Rosenheim was named after him.

Works (selection)

Exhibits in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, z. B. from 1771 the high relief “St. Joseph with Jesuskind “, model for the Pietà in Nenningen, house Madonna of Günther's Munich home (around 1761), John the Baptist ( relief , 1751), St. Joachim and Maria, Archangel Raphael (approx. 1765–70) In the Munich City Museum : Seated, formerly winged child ( remains of an epitaph?).

Many of Ignaz Günther's designs remained unfinished or were made by other artists. Some works (including several pulpits; the relief doors of Munich Cathedral) were (war) destroyed.

literature

  • Adolf Feulner : Ignaz Günther, Bavarian electoral court sculptor 1725–1775. Vienna 1920.
  • Adolf Feulner: Ignaz Günther. The great sculptor of the Bavarian Rococo . With photos by Erika Schmauss. Münchner Verlag (formerly F. Bruckmann), Munich 1947.
  • Christiane Hertel, Pygmalion in Bavaria: The Sculptor Ignaz Günther and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Art Theory . University Park, PA, 2011
  • Arno Schönberger , Gerhard Woeckel: Ignaz Günther. Published for the Ignaz Günther exhibition in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich; Summer 1951. Society for Scientific Photography, Munich 1951.
  • Arno Schönberger :  Günther, Franz Ignaz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 275 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Björn Statnik: Ignaz Günther. A Bavarian sculptor and reredos architect in Europe at the end of the Baroque and Rococo periods. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7319-0602-5
  • Peter Volk : Ignaz Günther. Perfection of the Rococo . Friedrich blows. Regensburg 1991. ISBN 3-7917-1304-3 (is considered a standard work)
  • Gerhard P. Woeckel: Ignaz Günther. The hand drawings of the Bavarian court sculptor Franz Ignaz Günther (1725–1775) . Publication of the Central Institute for Art History Munich. Anton H. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1975

Web links

Commons : Ignaz Günther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "courtyard-free"
  2. ^ Museum Starnberger See: The Starnberg Saints
  3. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art: Model for the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg"
  4. ↑ Bavarian National Museum: Bozzetto: St. Maria Magdalena
  5. ^ Siegfried Hofmann: Face and psyche in the work of Ignaz Günther. In: Collection sheet of the historical association Ingolstadt. Vol. 84, 1975, p. 39 and Figures 4 and 5 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günther, Franz Ignaz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH Altmannstein
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1775
Place of death Munich