Leonhard Wex

Leonhard Wex , also: Leonhard Wechs, Leonhardt Wexen, (* around 1680, † after 1740) was a German plasterer of the Baroque / Rococo period .

Life

His exact life dates are unknown. He was married in Ellingen, where his son Johann Georg was baptized on August 16, 1701.

plant

So far, Wex has been proven in four stucco fittings:

In 1718, together with other craftsmen, he received a piece of work for the production of two Italian chimneys in the knight's hall of the upper hall of the Oettingschen Castle in Harburg .

From 1719-21 he worked as an assistant to the plasterer and Teutonic Order builder Franz Joseph Roth when he was stuccoing 16 rooms, six cabinets and the main staircase in the Teutonic Order Castle Ellingen .

1727/28 Wex stuccoed on behalf of the abbot Dominic III. von Eisenberg (r. 1726–42) the central nave of the Romanesque monastery church of Plankstetten , together with three other "Stuccadeurs", namely Matthias Abel (Appel) from Neuburg an der Donau († around 1754), Franz Xaver Horneis from Eichstätt ( † 1749) and Christoph Prigle (Brügel, Brügl, Prügel), who can be traced back to Ellingen, where he married in 1719. Wex knew the latter from his work in Harburg. The joint Plankstetter work is described and assessed by Hofmann / Mader as follows: “The stucco (the names Hofmann / Mader were not known) show the foliage and bandwork style common around 1728 , mixed with lattice motifs . The system reveals good taste. ”(P. 133). Angel heads and fruit baskets completed the stucco. Bauer says: "It was possible ... to transform the church into a ballroom of God in the sense of the early Rococo, even if no first-class masters were appointed." (P. 56)

Only ten years later is Wex tangible again: from 1738 to 1740 he stuccoed the interiors of the Oettingschen Schloss Hohenaltheim im Ries . Then his track is lost again.

literature

• Plankstetten. In: Friedrich Hermann Hofmann, Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg. XII District Office Beilngries. I. District Court of Beilngries. Oldenbourg, Munich 1908. Reprinted in 1982.
• Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt. 61, 1955/66, Eichstätt 1968, pp. 63-66; 62 (1967/68), Eichstätt 1969, p. 51, footnote 36.
• Petrus Bauer: The Plankstetten Benedictine Abbey in the past and present. Benedictine Abbey, Plankstetten 1979, p. 56.