Johann Joseph Mannebach

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Signature "MANNEBACH IN CÖLN" on the grave of JW Zanders in the cemetery of the Gnadenkirche in Bergisch Gladbach

Johann Joseph Mannebach (* 1765 in Cologne ; † July 4, 1832 there ) was a German sculptor and stonemason .

Life

Johann Joseph Mannebach was the son of a stone carver from Niedermendingen . After completing his training as a stonemason and sculptor, he first worked in Vienna before opening a studio for sculpting work in Cologne. According to the Cologne address books, his workshop at Severinstraße 203 can be traced back to at least from 1822 to 1835. When he died at the age of 67, his workshop was passed on to his son, the sculptor Johann Louis Peter Mannebach (1797–1842). Mannebach was married to Antonia Quadt von der Landskron, who came from an old Viennese noble family. He had two children with her.

Works (selection)

Melaten cemetery in Cologne-Lindenthal

Johann Joseph Mannebach's tombs in the Melaten cemetery are among the earliest sculptures to be erected there. Based on their jewelry and design language, one can still determine the relationship to the already fading classicism , but also the formal connection with the emerging historicism . Ferdinand Franz Wallraf , who was commissioned by the Cologne city administration to design the cemetery, appreciated Mannebach's sculptures and stone carvings very much.

  • 1818: Jakob Heister tomb (1780–1815), (Lit. I, No. 562) - was Professor of Natural Sciences in Cologne
  • 1818/19: Tomb of Joseph Claudius Rougemont (1756–1818), (Lit. A, No. 222–223) - was physician to the Elector Max Friedrich and professor at the Electoral Academy in Bonn
  • 1819/20: Tomb Maria Catherina Urbach (1794–1819), (Lit. A, no. 273–274) - was the wife of the Cologne wine merchant Caspar Joseph Urbach
  • 1825: Grave of Silvester Heukeshoven (1747–1825), (Lit. I, no. 573–574) - was a council administrator, stonemason and jury valuer (expert) at the High Secular Court in Cologne
  • 1825/26: Tomb Franz Heinrich Richrath (1760–1823), (Lit. A, No. 485–487)

The enclosure wall leading along Aachener Straße with the corresponding gate structures also belongs to the oldest part of the Melaten cemetery. The inscriptions to be found there go back to Wallraf and were carved into the stone by Mannebach. The inscriptions read as follows: "HAVE IN BEATIUS AEVUM SEPOSTA SEGES" ("Greetings to you, seeds sown for a better future") or "TRANSI NON SINE VOTIS MOX NOSTER" (Do not pass by without prayers, you, ours soon).

Geusenfriedhof in Cologne-Weyertal

  • 1826: Tomb Abraham Friederich Chasté (1788–1826) - was the Royal Prussian Oberpost Director
  • 1827: Charlotte Sofie Luisa Freifrau von Benekendorff, b. von der Osten (1752–1827) - was the wife of Major Hans Friedrich von Benekendorff

Cemetery at the Gnadenkirche in Bergisch Gladbach

Although no further sculptural evidence outside of Cologne can be cited apart from this work cited here, it can be assumed that he has also accepted commissions in other cities.

Images of tombstones

The following tombstones on Melaten are under monument protection.

  • Aedicular stele, reference A, nos. 222-223

  • Aedicular-like stele, reference A, no

  • High stele with cheeks, reference A, no

literature

  • Josef Abt, Wolfgang Vomm: The Cologne Melaten Cemetery. Encounter with the past and forgotten from Rhenish history and art . Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7743-0182-4
  • Josef Abt, Joh. Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten. Cologne graves and history . Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3
  • Hans Vogts: The Cologne Melaten Cemetery . Rhenish cemeteries. Special issues of the communications of the West German Society for Family Studies, Issue 2, Cologne 1937

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred-Walter Kautz / Michael Werling : Against forgetting . The old evangelical cemetery at the Gnadenkirche in Bergisch Gladbach, a documentation in text, image and drawing, Cologne 2004, p. 87 ff., ISBN 3-932326-42-3
  2. ^ Josef Abt: Sculptors and stonemasons in Cologne address books (1797 to 1941/42), unpublished Findbuch, Cologne 1986, p. 44
  3. ^ Historical address books , accessed on March 29, 2013.
  4. ^ Robert Steimel: Kölner Köpfe , Cologne 1958, col. 259
  5. ↑ On the basis of his signature, only the tomb for Emma Wilhelmina Lucia Carstanjen (1814-1839), (lit. B, no. 105-108) can be localized on Melaten
  6. ^ The inauguration of Melaten took place on June 29, 1810 by cathedral pastor Michael Joseph DuMont
  7. ^ Johann Jakob Merlo:  Rougemont, Joseph Claudius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 404 f.
  8. ^ Commercial exercise book by Caspar Joseph Urbach from Cologne (1797), HAStK, inventory 70N, A 1895 , accessed on March 29, 2013.
  9. ^ Cologne address book from 1797 , accessed on March 29, 2013.
  10. ^ Genealogy by Benekendorff , accessed on March 29, 2013.
  11. ^ Marianne Vogt-Werling / Michael Werling: The Melaten cemetery in Cologne . All monuments and their future. With a DVD with an allocation plan and digital tours of all monumental graves, published by the city curator of the city of Cologne, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7743-0471-0
personal data
SURNAME Mannebach, Johann Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and stonemason
DATE OF BIRTH 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1832
Place of death Cologne