Johann Georg Wieland

Wieland's design for the altar wall of the Salem Minster

Johann Georg Wieland (* 1742 in Radolfzell (?); † February 8, 1802 in Mimmenhausen near Salem ) was a German sculptor and plasterer .

Life

Little is known about Wieland's life. Presumably he completed his apprenticeship and journeyman time as a sculptor in the Mimmenhausen workshop of the rococo sculptor Josef Anton Feuchtmayer (1696-1770). Feuchtmayer probably also appointed him as heir. After the death of Feuchtmayer's partner Johann Georg Dirr (1723–1779), Wieland married his only daughter Maria Theresia (1756–1822) in 1780 and took over the workshop and lived there with his family. Wieland is considered to be the most artistically independent of Feuchtmayer's successors, but he never achieved his popularity.

plant

From 1769 Wieland worked regularly for the Salem Imperial Abbey . Around 1778 his own style becomes tangible. Like his father-in-law Dirr, Wieland no longer oriented himself towards the Rococo style , for which their teacher Feuchtmayer was famous, but towards French classicism , especially the designs of François de Neufforge . His classicist altars in the Salem Minster , held in simple geometric shapes, are among the most remarkable sacred works of art of this epoch in southwest Germany.

Wieland also made decorations in the Salem monastery library and the prince's room. His fame gained with the Salem furnishing brought him orders in the larger region: As a renowned altar builder , he designed altars for the Weissenau monastery church and the parish church of St. Maria Magdalena in Mühlheim an der Donau ; Another high altar, originally created for the parish church of St. Leonhard in Salem, can now be found in the parish church of Herdwangen . Wieland also created a monument for Count Hermann von Königsegg-Rothenfels in the parish church of St. Martin in Aulendorf ( Upper Swabia ), where he also decorated the marble hall of the castle. For the parish church in Stühlingen he made plans for the alabaster altars , which were made by the sculptor Johann Friedrich Vollmar .

literature

Ottokar Graf: Johann Georg Wieland (1742–1802) - A pioneer of classicism in the Lake Constance area. In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein eV (Hrsg.): Yearbook . tape 73/2016 . Singen Hohentwiel, ISBN 978-3-933356-88-8 , p. 63-88 .
Stephan Klingen: From Birnau to Salem. The transition from Rococo to Classicism in the architecture and decoration of southwest German sacred art . Dissertation. Bonn 1993. ( online )
Ulrich Knapp: Johann Georg Wieland's work for the Salem Imperial Abbey . 2nd expanded edition. District archive, Friedrichshafen 1984.

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Wieland - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Ottokar Graf: Johann Georg Wieland (1742–1802) - A pioneer of classicism in the Lake Constance area. In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein eV (Hrsg.): Yearbook . tape 73/2016 . Singen Hohentwiel, ISBN 978-3-933356-88-8 , p. 63-88 .
^ Ottokar Graf: Johann Georg Wieland (1742–1802) - A pioneer of classicism in the Lake Constance area. In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein eV (Hrsg.): Yearbook . tape 73/2016 . Singen Hohentwiel, ISBN 978-3-933356-88-8 , p. 63-88 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wieland, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German plasterer and classicist sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	1742
PLACE OF BIRTH	Radolfzell
DATE OF DEATH	February 8, 1802
Place of death	Mimmenhausen near Salem

[1] Ottokar Graf: Johann Georg Wieland (1742–1802) - A pioneer of classicism in the Lake Constance area. In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein eV (Hrsg.): Yearbook . tape 73/2016 . Singen Hohentwiel, ISBN 978-3-933356-88-8 , p. 63-88 .

[2] Ottokar Graf: Johann Georg Wieland (1742–1802) - A pioneer of classicism in the Lake Constance area. In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein eV (Hrsg.): Yearbook . tape 73/2016 . Singen Hohentwiel, ISBN 978-3-933356-88-8 , p. 63-88 .