Ludwig Schwanthaler

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Ludwig Schwanthaler
Ludwig Schwanthaler, drawn by Eduard Magnus , Rome 1834
Grave of Ludwig Schwanthaler on the old southern cemetery in Munich location
Bavaria in Munich, 2010

Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler , from 1844 Knight von Schwanthaler , (also von Schwanthaler ; born August 26, 1802 in Munich , †  November 14, 1848 ibid) was a Bavarian sculptor and is considered the main master of classicist sculpture in southern Germany .

Life

He came from the Schwanthaler family of sculptors from Ried im Innkreis in what is now Upper Austria , his father was Franz Jakob Schwanthaler , his mother Klara Lutz . In 1819 he graduated from the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . From 1819 to 1822 he first studied painting, then sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . After his father's death in 1820, he had to help out in his workshop and soon took over its management. In 1835 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and teacher at the Royal Building Trade School. His career and his work were supported by King Ludwig I , so Schwanthaler spent several years on a study trip to Rome (1826–1827, 1832–1834), for which Ludwig I donated the financial means.

On September 4, 1842, during the unveiling ceremony of the Mozart monument in Salzburg that he had created and cast by Johann Baptist Stiglmaier , he was named the 7th honorary citizen of the city. In 1843 he built Schwaneck Castle in the Isar Valley . His main work is the colossal statue of the Munich Bavaria, erected in 1850 . It influenced the Swiss sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth for his St. Jacob's monument in Basel, erected in 1872. On November 28, 1844, the monument designed by Grand Duke Karl Friedrich von Baden was unveiled on the festival and parade ground in front of Karlsruhe Palace .

The building for models erected from 1837 opposite the studio , which was opened to the public as the Schwanthaler Museum after his death , was destroyed in the Second World War. In terms of art history, it is one of the first artists' museums . The sculptor Wilhelm Hornberger (1819–1882) was one of Ludwig Schwanthaler's preferred students, as was Ernst Gottfried Vivié , who also worked in his studio.

Since his youth, Schwanthaler suffered from a condition known as gout , which got increasingly worse despite long spa stays and led to his early death.

Schwanthaler's works are only partially preserved and especially his works in Munich, such as B. the interior decoration in the royal building of the Munich Residenz suffered the greatest losses in World War II. The best evidence of Schwanthaler's relief work can be found in the Marstall of St. Emmeram Castle in Regensburg, where the reliefs created by the artist himself have been completely preserved.

tomb

The tomb of Ludwig Schwanthaler is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (New Arkadenplatz 1 at cemetery 28) location . Ludwig I commissioned the tomb in 1850. It was carried out by Ludwig Schwanthaler's cousin and friend Franz Xaver Schwanthaler , who is also in the grave, like Ludwig Schwanthaler's wife Josepha and daughter Johanna.

Awards

Works (excerpt)

Illustrations (selection)

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970-1976 .; Vol. 3, p. 250.
  2. ^ Stefan Hess : Schlöth, Ferdinand. In: Sikart ; Brigitte Meles: Ferdinand Schlöth's St. Jacob's monument. In: Werner Geiser (Ed.): Event - Myth - Interpretation, 1444–1994 St. Jakob an der Birs. Basel 1994, pp. 140-164.
  3. ↑ Sunday, April 21, 2019, p. 4.
  4. ^ Rudolph Marggraff: The Schwanthaler Museum in Munich. In: Munich Digitization Center Digital Library. Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, p. 5 , accessed on October 4, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Peter Volk:  Schwanthaler, Ludwig Michael Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 794-796 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Christine Hoh-Slodczyk: The house of the artist in the 19th century . Prestel, 1985, ISBN 3-7913-0734-7 , pp. 42 .
  7. ↑ Janina Pentlehner: Ludwig von Schwanthaler's reliefs on the stables of the princely castle of St. Emmeram in Regensburg (1829-1831) . In: Hans Christoph Dittscheid, Peter Styra, Bernhard Lübbers (eds.): Catalogs and writings of the State Library in Regensburg . Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86845-050-7 , p. 123-154 .
  8. ^ A b Peter F. Kramml: The honorary citizens of the state capital Salzburg , City of Salzburg, 2018 (PDF; 627 kB)
  9. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1844, p. 23.
  10. ↑ Manfred Großkinsky: Grand Duke Karl Friedrich Monument (= cat. No. 23). In: Monuments, fountains and free sculptures in Karlsruhe 1715-1945 ( Publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives , 7). 2nd Edition. Karlsruhe 1989, ISBN 3-7617-0264-7 , pp. 218-230, ka.stadtwiki.net , karlsruhe.de (PDF). Adolf Seyb: Ludwig Schwanthaler and the Karl-Friedrich monument in Karlsruhe . In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins , 75, 1921, pp. 378–392 archive.org .
personal data
SURNAME Schwanthaler, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwanthaler, Ludwig Michael Ritter von (full name); Schwanthaler, Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1848
Place of death Munich