Johann Friedrich Vollmar

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Johann Friedrich Vollmar (* 1751 in Wil SG ; † 1818 in Säckingen ) was a sculptor and artist of classicism

Classicist pulpit with reliefs by Vollmar, Schwerzen Church

Life

Johann Friedrich Vollmar came from a family whose ancestors held the office of executioner in Riedlingen . At the time of his son's birth, his father was seconded to the services of the St. Gallen abbot in Wil. He died in Säckingen in 1818. Johann Vollmar had 15 children from two marriages, who were born in three different cities and of whom only four can be proven to be of adulthood.

progeny

One son was Joseph Vollmar. He probably returned to Säckingen in 1828 from an apprenticeship in Riedlingen with his uncle Bernhard. He was married three times and had a total of ten children from the first two marriages. In addition to his profession as a painter, sculptor, altar builder and copper engraver, he also temporarily worked as a town architect. He was also the first drawing teacher at the Säckingen Citizens' School, founded in 1863. He died on October 8, 1870 in Säckingen. His only known student so far was the painter Urban Pfeiffer (born May 25, 1841 in Nöggenschwiel ; † February 5, 1902 in Munich).

Of the ten children of Joseph Vollmar baptized in Säckingen, only four reached adulthood. The first-born Josef Friedrich, with the nickname of his grandfather and father, also became a painter and sculptor, but died at the age of 18. The other sons, Viktor Vollmar, born in September 1831, became a painter and sculptor in Basel. His younger half-brother, Ludwig Vollmar , born on January 7, 1842 , also became a respected painter and lived in Munich, where he, like his father, had studied at the Munich Academy. He liked to paint scenes from the Black Forest and Upper Bavarian folk life.

Works

  • Collaboration in the Buchau collegiate church (not secured)
  • Equipment in the parish church of Wurmlingen
  • Reworking of the alabaster side altars from the St. Blasien monastery and creating the pulpit in the Liebfrauen Waldshut parish church as well as building the high altar from remnants of alabaster and marble from St. Blasien.
  • Equipment in the parish church of Stühlingen
  • 1774 sculptures on the high altar of the monastery church in Wattwil SG
  • Around 1767/77 stucco figures for the altars of the Catholic parish church Wildhaus SG
  • 1783 altar figures in the parish church of Näfels GL
  • before 1788 to 1792 main altar, tabernacle and pulpit with alabaster reliefs and gilding (a baptismal font and the columns under the gallery are also mentioned), in the parish church of St. John the Baptist in Schwerzen
  • Around 1795 high altar in the parish church in Benken SG
  • 1796 bust of Christ and Mary for the monastery church in Muri
  • 1800 altars made of stucco marble in St. Michael Kaisten AG and Schupfart AG

literature

  • Winfried Aßfalg : Johann Friedrich Vollmar - a hangman's son becomes an artist . For the 250th birthday of the sculptor, plasterer, painter, architect, altar and pulpit builder. Lindenberg 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author: Winfried Aßfalg on the website of the city of Riedlingen
  2. ↑ Author: Winfried Aßfalg on the website of the city of Riedlingen
  3. ↑ Author: Winfried Aßfalg on the website of the city of Riedlingen
  4. ↑ Hans Jakob Wörner in: History of the City of Waldshut, Volume 2, p. 108.
  5. ↑ Hans Ruppaner, Parish Church Schwerzen , in: Parish of St. Johannes d. T. Schwerzen. Parish St. Johannes, Schwerzen (Ed.), 1992. p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Vollmar, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Classicist sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Wil SG
DATE OF DEATH 1818
Place of death Säckingen