Lorenz Luidl

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Lorenz Luidl (* around 1645 in Mering ; † January 14, 1719 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a Bavarian baroque sculptor.

Lorenz Luidl is the most important member of an extensive family of sculptors in western Upper Bavaria . Even his father Michael († 1683) had a sculptor's workshop in Markt Mering in the curbs . From 1662 to 1667 he did an apprenticeship as a sculptor with David Degler in Weilheim . In 1668 he was accepted as a citizen of the city of Landsberg and in the same year he married Maria Miller († 1678). After the death of his first wife, he married the baker's daughter Ursula Ludwig in 1678. In 1669 he bought a house in Ledergasse and in 1679 another house in the neighborhood. In 1699 Luidl was appointed to the city's external council. In 1717 he handed over his workshop and the entire property to his son Johann Luidl (* 1686 in Landsberg, † 1765 in Landsberg). In addition to this, the sons Ferdinand (* 1670, † 1736 in Hegelhofen b. Weißenhorn ) and Stephan (* 1684, † 1736 in Dillingen ) worked as sculptors. Other family members who were sculptors are his brother Adam Luidl († 1681 in Dachau ) and his cousins ​​Joseph (* 1682 , † around 1729 in Mering ) and Gabriel (* 1688, † 1748 in Munich). The Luidl workshop in Landsberg was one of the most productive sculptor workshops in Bavaria in the late 17th and early 18th centuries . The Luidls equipped churches and monasteries , especially in Upper Bavaria and Central Swabia .

The characteristic features of the Luidl sculptures include the moving overall posture of the figures and the mannerist folds of the robes.

"Luidl's originality probably lies in a small master's limitation to the irrational formal language that Jörg Zürn took up for the first time in southern Germany after the Gothic ."

- Herbert Nagel

Lorenz Luidl's complete works that have been preserved include around 650 objects.

Works (selection)

Anthony the Great in the parish church of the Holy Cross in Oberfinning
Ölberggruppe in the Oberfinningen parish church
Christ as a good shepherd in the Maximilian Museum in Augsburg

literature

  • Herbert Nagel: Lorenz Luidl, a Swabian-Bavarian sculptor and his workshop in Landsberg am Lech. In: Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History. 79, 1954, pp. 1-86.
  • Norbert Lieb: The Luidl, a family of sculptors from the Baier and Swabian Baroque. In: The Minster. 3rd year Munich 1950.
  • Wilhelm Neu: The Luidl family of sculptors and their works in the city and district of Landsberg. In: Lech-Isar-Land. 1966, pp. 3-29.
  • Wilhelm Neu: The Landsberg sculptor Lorenz Luidl and his works in Bavarian Swabia. In: Ars Bavarica. 7, 1977, pp. 67-82.
  • Wilhelm Neu: Lorenz Luidl or Heinrich Hagn? - New insights into the work of a little-known Weilheim sculptor. In: Lech-Isar-Land. 1975, pp. 20-27.
  • Herbert Schindler : Great Bavarian Art History. Volume II. Munich 1976, p. 244 f.
  • Matthias Klein: News about Lorenz Luidl. In: Contributions to local research: Wilhelm Neu on his 70th birthday. Bayer, Munich 1991 (workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation; 54), pp. 87–93.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments: Bavaria IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 3. Edition. Munich, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-422-03115-4 .
  • Gerd Michael Köhler: Lorenz Luidl from Mering (around 1645–1719) . In: Aichach-Friedberg district (ed.): Altbayern in Schwaben 2016 . Yearbook of history and culture. 2016, ISBN 978-3-9813801-4-9 , ISSN  0178-2878 , pp. 35-68 .
  • Klaus Wankmiller: Lorenz Luidl (around 1645 - 1719). On the 300th anniversary of the death of the great Landsberg sculptor in 2019 , in: Landsberger Geschichtsblätter 117 (2019), pp. 37–56.

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personal data
SURNAME Luidl, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian baroque sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1645
PLACE OF BIRTH Mering
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1719
Place of death Landsberg am Lech