Ignaz Günther
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)
- Birthplace in Altmannstein am Schambach (Altmühltal, Upper Bavaria, formerly Upper Palatinate) demolished due to a new building for the Sparkasse
- Altmannstein, parish church, crucifix
- before 1748 Reisach am Inn , former Carmelite monastery church, seated Mary with child at the St. Simon Stock side altar
- around 1750 crowning of a faience oven (in the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe)
- 1752/53 Trinity Parish Church of Kopřivná / Geppersdorf: equipment
- 1752/59 high altar by St. Rasso in Grafrath
- 1755 Parish Church of St. Peter in Munich ore brotherhood Coporis Christi Altar, St. Charles Borromeo -relief, 1755 Wachsenstein - Epitaph to 1759 Epitaph Joseph Ignaz von Unertl
- 1754 Christ on the scourge column (after the miraculous image of the Wieskirche ), today Detroit Institute of Arts [1] (signed 1754: F: l: G :)
- approx. 1755 St. Rupert with the Altötting statue of the Virgin Mary; Crucifix (Bamberg, private property)
- 1755 " Starnberger Heilige" ( Museum Starnberger See , Starnberg) and two associated bozzetti ( Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City and Bavarian National Museum , Munich )
- 1755/56 Bad Aibling , parish church: high altar (destroyed)
- 1755-60 hll. Petrus , Paulus and Mauritius (?), Unknown original location, today: Röttenbach (near Erlangen) , parish church
- 1755–60 Dietfurt an der Altmühl , parish church St. Agidius : two kneeling angels
- 1756 Neustift collegiate church , Freising : high altar; St. Andreas: high altar (destroyed)
- 1758 Parish Church of St. Rupertus : Pietà
- 1758/59 Benediktbeuern monastery church : Two side altars in the Anastasia chapel
- 1758/59 Munich-Thalkirchen, parish and pilgrimage church: high altar
- 1760 Munich-Ramersdorf, Church of St. Maria : pulpit (destroyed)
- 1760 Ingolstadt , parish church St. Moritz: Maria Immaculata on the south side altar (silver work after Günther by JF Canzler)
- before 1760 (?): Immaculata , kneeling on clouds (in Berlin, Staatl. Museen Preuss. Kulturbesitz); here also: pulpit coronation figure of St. Michael defeating Satan
- 1760 Church of St. John of Nepomuk in Munich : Johannes Nepomuk Joseph Baron Zech on Neuhofen , Solln and Königswiesen († July 19, 1757) epitaph
- ~ 1760 crucifix , ivory work, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
- 1761 Sünching Castle , ballroom: boiseries , console tables and putti
- 1763 Munich, Bürgersaalkirche : Guardian Angel Group
- 1763 Schleißheim Palace : stucco additions in the billiard room, dining room equipment, main portals on the east and west sides
- around 1763 Benedictine monastery church of St. Marinus and Anianus Rott am Inn : items of equipment
- 1763/64 Augustinian canons' church of St. Peter and Paul in Weyarn : altars, annunciation group , Pietà , (approx. 1755) St. Valerius shrine, lecture cross
- 1763/64 Munich-Harlaching, pilgrimage church St. Anna : altars, pulpit
- 1763/64 Heiligkreuzkirche in Altmannstein : large crucifix
- 1765/70 Vierkirchen , St. Jakobus : Crucifix and Mater Dolorosa
- 1766 Bozzetto "St. Kajetan" for Munich, Theatinerkirche , facade figure
- 1767 St. Peter and Paul Monastery Church in Altenhohenau : Altars (parts before 1757?)
- 1766–68 Old parish church St. Josef in Starnberg: high altar
- 1768–70 Former Collegiate Church in Mallersdorf : high altar
- 1769/70 Munich, main guard at Marienplatz: Mars and Bellona (not preserved)
- around 1770 Neuburg an der Donau , monastery of the Barmherzigen Brüder, group of St. John of God
- 1770 Ingolstadt, St. Anton: Mater Dolorosa
- Approx. 1770–75 Munich-Bogenhausen, St. Georg : Two side altars and a pulpit
- 1771/72 Munich, Frauenkirche : five portals
- 1771/72 Ingolstadt, Franciscan Church: epitaphs for Johann Graf von Preysing and wife (destroyed)
- around 1772 Munich, Marienplatz , house Madonna "Maria in glory "
- 1773/74 Munich, Frauenkirche, 16 reliefs on the choir stalls
- 1774/75 Arget (district of Munich), parish church: high altar figures of St. Cosmas and Damian
- 1774 Nenningen cemetery chapel : Pietà , his last known work.
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.
Maria Immaculata, 1750/60, Bode Museum Berlin
House Madonna, after 1761, oak, Bavarian National Museum, Munich
Guardian Angel Group, 1763, Bürgersaal in Munich
Pietà in the collegiate church Weyarn
Pulpit 1770–1773, St. Georg in Munich-Bogenhausen
Altar of the Altenhohenau monastery church
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
- Literature by and about Ignaz Günther in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ignaz Günther Museum in Altmannstein in the Altmühltal Nature Park
- Works by Ignaz Günther on Google Maps
- Pieta by Franz Ignaz Günther in Nenningen, 1774
- Henning Weber: In the intoxication of Rococo, The sculptor Ignaz Günther , 2008, BR-Mediathek
Individual evidence
- ↑ "courtyard-free"
- ^ Museum Starnberger See: The Starnberg Saints
- ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art: Model for the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg"
- ↑ Bavarian National Museum: Bozzetto: St. Maria Magdalena
- ^ 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 | |
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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 |