Georg Anton Machein

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Georg Anton Machein (born June 10, 1685 in Großprüfening near Regensburg , † March 22, 1739 in Überlingen ) was a German sculptor and wood carver . His main work is the choir stalls of the former monastery church Schussenried in Upper Swabia.

Life

Choir stalls in Schussenried, detail
Pulpit in St. Katharinental

Machein was born the son of a shoemaker. His younger brother Johann Machein (er) (* 1696) also became a sculptor.

Machein was based in Marchtal as a sculptor from 1709 , then in Schussenried to manufacture the choir stalls . In 1716 he successfully applied for citizenship in the imperial city of Überlingen .

Works

Documentary secured
  • Parish church Riedlingen: sculptures for the choir altar, 1712
  • Schussenried Monastery Church : Choir stalls, 1715–1717
  • Schussenried Abbey Church: sculptures for the high altar, reliefs, acanthus, wickerwork, 1715–1716
  • Eberhardzell pilgrimage church : St. Michael and St. Georg ("mending"), 1716
  • Obermarchtal Abbey Church : Tiberius Altar, 1727
  • Parish church Untereggatsweiler (Bad Saulgau): Altar, 1728
  • Winterstettendorf parish church : pulpit, 1728
  • Monastery church St. Katharinental (Thurgau): carvings for high altar, side altars, pulpit, tabernacle, 1734–1738 (partly workshop work)
Attributed to
  • Schussenried Monastery Church: Sculptures of St. Peter and St. Paul, 1717–1718
  • Schussenried Monastery Church: Carvings for side altars, 1717–1718
  • Weilerkapelle Vierzehn Nothelfer, Riedlingen: three altars and pulpit, 1721–1722
  • Schussenried Abbey Church: St. Magnus Altar, St. Michael Altar, 1722
  • Minster St. Nikolaus , Überlingen: St. Cajetan Altar, 1723
  • Minster St. Nikolaus, Überlingen: St. Niklaus, 1724
  • Parish church Sernatingen (Ludwigshafen am Bodensee): high altar, 1725
  • Winterstettendorf parish church: choir stalls, 1730 (workshop)

literature

  • Otto Beck, Anton Schmid: A masterpiece of baroque wood carving. The choir stalls in Bad Schussenried. Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2003, ISBN 3-89870-118-2 .
  • Hermann Ginter : Machus (Machein), Georg Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 515-516 .
  • Alfons Kasper: Georg Antoni Machein and Switzerland. A contribution to the problems around St. Katharinental. In: Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History. 13th year 1952, p. 38 ff. ( Doi: 10.5169 / seals-163794 ).
  • Alfons Kasper: Georg Antoni Machein. Studies of life and work. In: Journal of Württemberg State History. 12th year 1953, pp. 221-249.
  • Alfons Kasper: The Schussenried choir stalls (= architectural and art history of the Schussenried Premonstratensian Monastery. III). Libertas-Verlag, Erolzheim 1954.
  • Bernhard Rueß: The Schussenried choir stalls and their masters. An art-historical monograph with a view of part of the choir stalls in autotype. Volksblatt, Stuttgart 1893.
  • Sybe Wartena: The South German choir stalls from the Renaissance to Classicism. Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 2008, pp. 439–464 ( uni-muenchen.de full text as PDF; 5.87 MB).

Web links

Commons : Georg Anton Machein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sybe Wartena: The Sueddeutsche choir stalls from the Renaissance to Classicism. P. 440, note 848.
  2. ^ A b Alfons Kasper: Georg Antoni Machein and Switzerland. A contribution to the problems around St. Katharinental. 1952, p. 38 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Machein, Georg Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Machus, Georg Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and wood carver
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1685
PLACE OF BIRTH Großprüfening near Regensburg
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1739
Place of death Überlingen