Johann Conrad Winterhalder

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Johann Conrad Winterhalder (born November 15, 1640 on the Oberfallengrundhof in Neukirch near Furtwangen in the Black Forest ; † June 25, 1676 in Kirchzarten ) was a Baroque artist from the Winterhalder family of sculptors .

Lamentation of Christ in Vöhrenbach
Parts of a Mount of Olives group in Saig

His parents were the farmer and sculptor Bartholomaeus Winterhalder (around 1613–1680), the progenitor of the clan, and his wife Ursula nee. Bumblebee (1611-1695). Johann Georg learned carving from his father and then probably from Johann Georg Hauser (1611–1660 / 61) in Kirchzarten. When he died, Johann Conrad married his widow, Magdalena geb. Hoffmann (1629–1674), and took over the workshop. With Magdalena he had five children, three girls and two boys, the later sculptors Philipp and Clemens Winterhalder . With Johann Conrad's death, the Kirchzarten sculpture workshop went out. Before that, however, he had become the teacher of his stepson from Magdalena's first marriage, Franz Hauser (1651-1717).

Most of the works have been lost, including six “carved pictures ohngefohr 2 ½ shoes high” for the Freiburg Cathedral , probably two side altars for the Kirchzarten parish church of St. Gallus , which was replaced in 1763 by the current altars by Franz Xaver Anton Hauser (1712–1772) and probably work for the former Capuchin monastery in Mahlberg . Preserved - although only ascribed to Winterhalder - five figures from a group of Mounts of Olives in Saig near Lake Titisee , namely Christ, “full of deep expressiveness”, the angel with the cup of passion and the three apostles Peter , James the Elder and John , “each Characterized lively, depicted in their common deep sleep, “also a group of lamentations in St. Martin in Vöhrenbach.

"The second representative of the Oberfallen founders 'family of sculptors was only granted 36 years of life, which also fell in a time that was only slowly recovering from the horrors of the Thirty Years' War ... Among the masters of Breisgau and the surrounding area, <Johann Conrad Winterhalder> deserves great attention , especially since only a few carvers here in the 17th century managed to exceed the technical average. ”He also ensured the continuity of Hauser's art of carving by passing it on from Johann Georg (1611–1660 / 61) to Franz Hauser (1651–1717).

literature

  • Hermann Brommer : The sculptors Hauser in Kirchzarten, Schlettstadt and Freiburg i. Br. (1611–1842) - The Biographies (Part I). In: Schau-ins-Land. 89, 1971, pp. 47-93.
  • Manfred Hermann : The sculptors Hauser in Kirchzarten, Schlettstadt and Freiburg / Br. 1611-1842. The work (part 1). In: Badische Heimat. 52, 1972, pp. 2-151.
  • Karl Weber, Wilhelm Dotter: Oberfallengrundhof. In: From the history of Neukirch. Höfe chronicle of a Schwazwald community. 2nd Edition. Kurortliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Furtwangen-Neukirch 1991, pp. 65–83.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann 1972 p. 19.
  2. ^ Manfred Hermann: Parish Church of St. Martin, Vöhrenbach in the Black Forest. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg o. J. ISBN 3-931820-12-2 .
  3. ↑ Hermann 1972 p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Winterhalder, Johann Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Neukirch near Furtwangen in the Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1676
Place of death Kirchzarten