Johann Wilhelm Manstadt

Johann Wilhelm Manstadt (born June 16, 1722 in Sweden , † July 20, 1788 in Hamburg ) was a Swedish sculptor who worked in Hamburg.

Life

Johann Wilhelm Manstadt, about whose life little is known, worked as a sculptor in Hamburg from 1770. His reputation as a sculptor at the time is demonstrated by his work at the former Hamburg City Hall , i.e. the City Hall on the Trostbrücke , as evidenced by the Schimmelmann family as a contractor, for example. Most of his sculptures were destroyed in the Hamburg fire .

The Manstadtsweg in Hamburg- Barmbek-Nord is named after him.

Works

• Coat of arms and Bacchus sculpture for the Eimbecksches Haus (1770), today in the entrance of the Hamburg Ratskeller
• Coat of arms and two statues for the main portal of the old town hall in Hamburg (1772)
• four wooden groups of allegorical figures for the Görtz-Palais on Neuer Wall in Hamburg (1777)

from it: group of putti with allegory of honor , former lantern holder today in the Museum of Hamburg History (1777)

• Draft from 1779 for the monument ( cenotaph ) of the brothers Johann Christoph Wolf and Johann Christian Wolf in the Hamburg city library ; Destroyed in World War II, but both portraits have been preserved
• Genii and sphinxes as ramp decorations for the Schimmelmannsche Palais in Mühlenstrasse in Hamburg (demolished 1907); they were in the meantime on the Lütken'schen park property, today at the entrance of the Eichtalpark in Hamburg-Wandsbek

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  Bacchus (1770)

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  Old Hamburg City Hall with portal

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  Sphinge at the Eichtalpark

literature

• Manstadt, Johann Wilhelm. In: Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexicon. Volume 1, Hamburg 1854, p. 161 ( books.google.com )
• Manstadt, Johann Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 36 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Wilhelm Manstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fig.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Europeana .  
2. ↑ Karl Klunzinger, Adolf Friedrich Seubert (ed.): The artists of all times and peoples or the life and works of the most famous builders, sculptors, painters, engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, etc. Volume 3 : M-Z . Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1857, p. 18 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Restoration report ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.0 MB).