Johann Adam Dietz
Johann Adam Dietz (* 1671 in Holschitz ; † February 24, 1742 in Eisenberg ) was a Bohemian sculptor who worked in northern Bohemia in the early 18th century. A detailed description of his works from the period from 1700 to 1740 has been given as part of an extensive dissertation.
Life and work
Johann Adam Dietz and his wife Anna Dorothea had two sons and a daughter. Both sons Johann Josef Dietz (* 1705) and Adam Ferdinand Dietz (also Tietz) (1708–1777), who later worked in Würzburg , in the Eifel and in Bamberg , were also sculptors. His son-in-law Johann Wenzel Grauer (Czech. Jan Václav Grauer) (* around 1711) was also a sculptor who contributed to decorating the church in Neusattel near Saaz and who later also went to Franconia . The meeting of these four sculptors resulted in the "Eisenberg Sculpture Workshop" in the 1720s and 1730s, which was characterized by both technical and artistic training and whose special works in sandstone and wood were still in today's districts of Teplice, Most and Chomutov and Louny can be found.
The earliest works by Johann Adam Dietz in the form of plastic reliefs can be found on the columns and bases of the busts of Roman emperors (emperors) on the terrace of the castle park of Eisenberg Castle (Jezeří). His greatest client was Count Ulrich Felix Popel von Lobkowicz (1650-1722), lord of the Eisenberg castle and owner of the Eisenberg-Neusattel estate (panství Jezeří - Nové Sedlo ), for whom he worked from 1700 until his death in 1722.
In the years 1712/13 there was a meeting and joint work with the Austrian baroque sculptor Franz Anton Kuen , who worked in the Ossegg monastery from 1713 and there, among other things, created the four evangelists on the portal of the monastery church. The result of this cooperation in 1712 was the sculptural decoration in the exterior and interior of the Nepomuk Chapel in Bartelsdorf (Dřínov) ( Okres Most ) with the statues of St. Ulrich (by JA Dietz) and St. Felix von Cantalice (from FA Kuen) together with the alliance coat of arms of the client Ulrich Felix von Lobkowicz (1650–1722) and Maria Josefa von Bubna und Littitz († 1729), now on the side facade of the deanery church of St. Archangel Michael in Litvínov (Leutensdorf). (The selection of Saints Ulrich and Felix obviously referred to the first names of the client.) In addition, two allegorical statues were created in the castle park of Eisenberg during this time: a standing male nude, probably Laocoon (by FA Kuen) and Pan (by JA Dietz) .
After that, his most important sculptures were created for Eisenberg Castle as well as for the churches and village squares in the surrounding areas of the former Lobkowicz rule. Worth mentioning here are the places Ulbersdorf (Albrechtice), Bartelsdorf (Dřínov), Seestadtl (Ervěnice), Holschitz (Holešice), Kleinpriesen (Malé Březno) and Neundorf an der Biela (Nové Sedlo nad Bílinou), for which he created numerous sculptures . Several of these locations no longer exist because they were dredged by lignite mining . The sculptures were mostly set up elsewhere.
Other clients were ecclesiastical and secular institutions in the vicinity of Eisenberg, e. B. from Brüx (Most), Komotau (Chomutov) and Klösterle an der Eger (Klášterec nad Ohří), as well as the noble clients: Eleonora Karolina von Lobkowicz in Bilin, Johann Josef von Waldstein in Dux and Oberleutensdorf, Maria Philippina von Thun, born . von Harrach, in Klösterle, Count von Martinitz von der Herrschaft Brunnersdorf, Dominica von Auersperg in Rothenhaus, Wenzel Anton Graf Chotek , Phillip Hyazinth Fürst von Lobkowicz, Franz Zessner von Spitzenberg in Hareth, Maria Clara Freiin von Kulhanek , admin. from Podpusch in Neusattel.
Works (selection)
- Works for Eisenberg and the Lobkowicz reign
- Sculpture decoration with the two atlases (sandstone) on the main portal of Eisenberg Castle
- Statues of St. Ulrich and St. Felix von Cantalice with the alliance coat of arms Ulrich Felix von Lobkowicz (1650–1722) and Maria Josefa von Bubna und Littitz († 1729), sandstone and wood carving (1712), now at the deanery church of St. Archangel Michael in Litvínov (Okres Most)
- Altar of St. John of Nepomuk with the statues of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Anthony of Padua, sandstone and wood carving (1712), now in the pilgrimage church of Mariánské Radčice (Maria Ratschitz) (Okres Most)
- Florian Column (sandstone, 1717) and Nepomuk column (sandstone, 1728) in Malé Březno (Kleinpriesen) (Okres Most)
- nine statues on consoles in the nave of the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Horní Jiřetín (Obergeorgenthal) (Okres Most), epistle page: Christ as victor, Christ as Man of Sorrows, St. Joseph, St. Joachim, St. Francis of Assisi, Gospel page: Our Lady of Sorrows , Maria Immaculata , St. Anna, St. Anthony of Padua, polychrome wood carving (1719)
- Statue of St. John of Nepomuk and St. Felix von Cantalice, sandstone (before 1722) from Holešice (Okres Most), now at the pilgrimage church in Mariánské Radčice
- Statue of St. Laurentius, sandstone (before 1722) from Holešice, now at the rectory of the pilgrimage church in Mariánské Radčice
- Works for squares and churches in Brüx ( Most ) from 1720, which have now been restored in various locations
- Sculpture group of St. John of Nepomuk with St. Adalbert and St. Wenceslas (national patron saint of Bohemia), sandstone (1719–1722), from the former II. Square in old Brüx, now on the side of the relocated Church of the Assumption of Mary in Most
- Sculpture group of St. John of Nepomuk with the statues of St. Charles Borromeo and St. Elisabeth , sandstone (1729), now at the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Most (from the Dietz workshop)
- Sculpture of a lion with the city's coat of arms, sandstone (1729), at the fountain on the 1st square in the new Most
- Statue of St. Johannes von Nepomuk, sandstone (1728), from the former Eisenberger Tor in Brüx, now in the area of the parish church of St. Aegidius in Bečov (Hochpetsch) (Okres Most)
- Statues of the apostles ( Andreas , Judas Thaddäus , Simon , Johannes , Jakobus and Thomas ) and the evangelists from the former patron s lodge of the former deanery church in Brüx, polychrome wood carving (1730–1738), now in the church of the Assumption of the Virgin on the pillars in Nave, probably made in the Dietz workshop
- Sculptural decoration of the interior of the former Franciscan Church in Brüx, polychrome wood carving (1734), now in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague and in the Church of St. Georg in České Zlatníky (Bohemian Zlatnik), OT from Obrnice (Obernitz)
- Further work for other clients
- Marian column on the market square of Hora Svaté Kateřiny (Katharinaberg) (1714), see [1]
- Statue of St. Florian, sandstone (1725), on the area of the deanery church of the Holy Trinity in Klášterec nad Ohří (Klösterle)
- Trinity Column with the statues of St. John of Nepomuk, St. Florian and St. Donatus , sandstone (1726), since 2012 in Zelená (green), OT von Malkov (Malkau)
- Statue of St. Johannes von Nepomuk from Neundorf an der Biela, sandstone (1720–1730), now in the castle park of Liberec (Reichenberg)
- Statues of St. Joseph and St. Anna herself on consoles in the deanery church of St. Archangel Michael in Litvínov (Leutensdorf) (Okres Most), wood carving (after 1730)
- Sculptural decoration of the main altar of the Martinskirche in Kozly (Kosel) (Okres Louny), side altar of Our Lady of Sorrows in the presbytery, two side altars of St. John of Nepomuk and St. Wenceslas in the nave, pulpit and confessionals, polychrome wood carving (1732, 1736, 1738), now in the depot of the diocese of Leitmeritz, probably from the Dietz workshop
- Statue of St. Johannes von Nepomuk from Stránce (Stranitz) (Okres Most), sandstone (around 1740), client was Franz Freiherr von Zessner-Spitzenberg , owner of the Hareth (Hořany) estate, now at the regional museum in Most
Most of the works were executed in sandstone for installation outdoors or as polychrome wood carvings for the church interior; the attribution was mostly based on style analyzes. As early as the 1920s and 1930s, these works met with public interest and were presented in exhibitions.
photos
Atlases at the main portal of Eisenberg Castle
Statues of St. Ulrich and St. Felix von Cantalice (right) with the Lobkowicz-Bubna alliance coat of arms at the deanery church in Litvínov (1712)
Sculpture group of St. John of Nepomuk, St. Adalbert and St. Wenceslas (1719–1722) at the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Most
Trinity Column with the statues of St. John of Nepomuk, St. Florian and St. Donatus in Zelená (Green), OT by Malkov (1726)
Lion with the city arms (1729), copy on the fountain on the 1st square in Most
Statues of the apostles and evangelists in the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Most (1730–1738)
literature
- Kateřina Adamcová, Zdenka Gláserová Lebedová, Viktor Kovařík, Vratislav Nejedlý, Pavel Zahradník: Mariánské, trojiční a další světecké sloupy a pilíře v Ústeckém kraji, the Holy Columns, the Holy Trinity Columns, the Holy Columns, the Holy Trinity Columns, the Holy Columns in the National Park 2012 Czech.), 1142 pp., ISBN 978-80-87104-89-7 , see [2]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kateřina Adamcová: Jan Adam Dietz, Adam Ferdinand Tietz, Jan Václav Grauer a sochařská dílna v Jezeří u Jirkova (Johann Adam Dietz, Adam Ferdinand Tietz, Johann Wenzel Grauer and the sculptor workshop in Eisenberg near Görkau). Dissertation, Charles University in Prague, 2007, 302 pages with attachments (part of the picture), see digitized version (Czech, English summary), accessed on January 24, 2017
- ^ Kateřina Adamcová: Jan Adam Dietz a sochařská dílna (Jan Adam Dietz and the sculpture workshop). In: Průzkumy památek 2/2010, year 17, pp. 7-36, see short version (Czech), accessed on September 13, 2019
- ^ Josef Opitz: Catalog of the exhibition of local baroque and rococo sculptures in the districts of Kaaden, Komotau and Saaz. Chomutov 1927
- ^ Josef Opitz: Catalog of the exhibition of local baroque and rococo sculptures from the districts of Brüx and Dux. Most 1932
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dietz, Johann Adam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dietze, Johann Adam; Tietz, Johann Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | bohemian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1671 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holschitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1742 |
| Place of death | Eisenberg |