Ludwig Foltz

Grave of Ludwig Foltz on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

Ludwig Foltz (born March 23, 1809 in Bingen , † November 10, 1867 in Munich ) was a German architect , sculptor and illustrator .

Life

Ludwig Foltz was the son of the painter of the same name Ludwig Foltz and brother of Philipp von Foltz , who was also a very important painter. Foltz went to Strasbourg in 1825 at the age of 16 , where he found work on the minster and building a new schoolhouse, returned home after three years and there attracted the attention of Johann Claudius von Lassaulx , who gave him the Transferred the expansion of Rheineck Castle , which he had taken over for the later Minister Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg . In order to manage the building successfully, Foltz learned the stonemason trade for a year, went to Munich in 1830 to the art academy , two years later joined Schwanthaler's studio and followed his preference for old German art. After five more years, the Minister Joseph Ludwig von Armansperg entrusted him with the restoration and furnishing of Egg Castle near Deggendorf in the Bavarian Forest in 1837 .

In 1837 Foltz was appointed teacher at the Regensburg trade school. He built the royal villa here from 1854 to 1856 in the neo-Gothic Maximilian style , then was appointed professor at the Munich Polytechnic and was entrusted with restoring the royal residence theater. In 1852/55 the crypt chapel was built on the Antoniberg near Stepperg under his direction on behalf of the aristocratic Arco family .

In 1860 he received the order from Regensburg to finally close the west facade of the church, which was only provisionally closed after the construction of the Neupfarrkirche was demolished in the middle of the 16th century, and to expand the interior of the church to accommodate an organ. Foltz solved this task sensitively without interfering with the old substance. A five-sided west choir was created which could accommodate a two-story organ gallery.

The last years of his life almost entirely filled the work for the restored Frauenkirche in Munich : 42 life-size statues of saints made of stone and clay, 40 smaller ones carved in wood, two rich chandeliers, numerous altarpieces, etc.

Ludwig Foltz was a member of the Munich Association for Christian Art . He died in Munich on November 10, 1867. The tomb of Foltz is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 29 - row 13 - Place 10/11) Location . 48.126055555556 11.563638888889

literature

Friedrich Pecht : Foltz, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 149 f.
Rosa Micus: Ludwig Foltz (1809–1867). Architectural and craft work. A contribution to the history of the Maximilian style. Regensburg 1986. (Dissertation, University of Regensburg, 1986.)

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Foltz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Ludwig Foltz in Saxonia.com

Individual evidence

^ Peter Morsbach: Regensburger Kirchen, Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1990, ISBN 3-7917-1253-5 , p. 71f.
^ Association for Christian Art in Munich (ed.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th year. Anniversary. Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, p. 119.

personal data
SURNAME	Foltz, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect, sculptor and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bingen
DATE OF DEATH	November 10, 1867
Place of death	Munich

[1] Peter Morsbach: Regensburger Kirchen, Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1990, ISBN 3-7917-1253-5 , p. 71f.

[2] Association for Christian Art in Munich (ed.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th year. Anniversary. Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, p. 119.