Jakob Bendl

Choir stalls in the parish church of Zeil

Jakob Bendl , even Jacob Christoph Bendl , Bendel , Bendtl and Pendl (* around 1585 in Waldsee , † to 1655 / 1660 in parish churches ) was a German sculptor .

He came from a South Tyrolean family of sculptors who had immigrated to Waldsee. After 1610 he worked for the canons of Waldsee and for the Truchsesse von Waldburg-Zeil .

In 1611 he made the choir stalls for the parish church of St. Maria , the collegiate church of Schloss Zeil . In 1617 he and his brother Melchior were involved in a legal dispute with the town of Waldsee for dishonesty. He was accused of too short an apprenticeship for a master's title.

It was not until 1631 that he received the imperial privilege. The choir stalls of the church in Bärenweiler (municipality of Kißlegg ) come from him. The wooden group Coronation of Mary in the high altar of the former collegiate church of St. Peter in Waldsee is attributed to him. Due to rivalries with the Zürn family of sculptors , he left Upper Swabia and came to Lower Bavaria via Prague. He settled in 1640 as a landlord in the Elsenpergischen Hofmark Baumgarten near Pfarrkirchen .

In the same year he carved an altar that has not survived and a small pietà for the pilgrimage church of Sammarei , which is in the predella of the current grace altar from 1772. In 1643 he acquired citizenship in parish churches and created a choir altar that has not survived for the parish church there.

In 1647 he moved to parish churches. The pulpit and the iconostasis-like altar wall of the pilgrimage church of Sammarei were created in his workshop . His son, the sculptor Johann Christoph Bendl (1624–1690), was probably already involved in furnishing the monastery church of Aldersbach Abbey here and later . His grandson is the sculptor and plasterer Ehrgott Bernhard Bendl (around 1660–1738).

literature

• Waltraut Hauk: Bendl, Jakob . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 633.