Manfred Hermann (art historian)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Manfred Hermann (born May 2, 1937 in Gütenbach ; † October 22, 2011 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Roman Catholic pastor and an important art historian for Baden-Württemberg , especially for the Upper Rhine region , the Baar and the former Principality of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen as well as for the Baroque period .

Manfred Hermann in front of his Ebringer church

Life

After attending the Berthold Gymnasium in Freiburg im Breisgau, he studied theology in Freiburg and Munich. In 1962 he was ordained a priest. He was then vicar in Obereschach, now part of Villingen-Schwenningen , in Oppenau , in Buchholz, now part of Waldkirch , in Burladingen , in Kappel , now part of Freiburg im Breisgau, and in the Baden-Baden district of Lichtental . From 1971 to 1978 he was first parish administrator , then pastor in Neufra , before he became pastor of the parish of St. Gallus in Ehaben in 1979 . In 2006 he retired. He is buried in the Ebringer cemetery.

Art historical work

General

Hermann was an autodidact as an art historian . His topics reflect the stages of his life. Perhaps it was a wood- carved figure of Saint Anthony the Great in the parish church of St. Josef in the valley of the Wild Gutach , in Obersimonswald , the first village down the Gutach from his birthplace Gütenbach, which finally led him to art history. He discovered their togetherness with two figures in the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg and ascribed the group to an artist close to Hans Wydyz : “We have to imagine the ... sculpture <of Antonius> carved from linden wood in its former location in a rich Gothic shrine. In the middle stood the broad seated figure of St. Antonius, ... she was joined by two other saints in the side niches, which today ... are kept in the Augustinian Museum in Freiburg. There are a St. Rochus, whose plague bump is tending to an angel on his thigh and who is handing a dog a piece of bread, and a figure of the apostle with a book in his hand, probably a St. James d. Ä. <The altar is likely to have been commissioned in the first decade of the 16th century from an artist who was still unknown to us and who was based on the most famous carving workshop in Freiburg at the time, namely Hans Wydytz, who immigrated from Strasbourg. "

The Obersimonswälder Antonius and his assistant figures stood for a long time in the Freiburg branch of the Antonite Order named after Antonius the Great . Hermann stayed close to him when he researched the history of the Antonite branch in Villingen-Schwenningen , close to his first place of work as vicar.

The years in Burladingen and Neufra brought many individual investigations into the history of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen - at least twenty, between 1971 and 1978, in the journal Hohenzollern Heimat alone . This includes not only art-historical titles, as the following examples show: “The Turn- und Taxi'schen Postanstalten in Hohenzollern”, “On the postal history of Veringenstadt / Hohenzollern ” and “The Thurn and Taxische Postablage Burladingen.” He described in a larger monograph the Neufraer Hochbergkapelle . The most extensive fruit was a book in which a sculpture from the district of Sigmaringen is depicted and discussed in detail on opposite pages - sculptures from 1150 to 1986, the year the book was published. When Hermann left Neufra, the editor of the Hohenzollern homeland wrote : “What Pastor Hermann did for the history of art in Hohenzollern could almost be described as a 'life's work'; it was hardly the work of a decade. "

As a pastor in Ehaben, Hermann published the book “1225 Jahre Mengen” for the village history association Schallstadt-Mengen-Wolfenweiler , of which he was chairman, to which he contributed several chapters.

Hermann was most fascinated by the baroque. With his friend Hermann Brommer , he wrote the second part of a monograph on the Hauser family of sculptors (1611–1842). In close contact with him, he also researched the family of sculptors, Winterhalder and Winterhalter, who were related to the Hausers (around 1613). In his first essay on Matthias Faller in 1974 he wrote: “The name Matthias Faller has not been in any art encyclopedia in the world.” Since 2003, his own Matthias Faller article has been in the general artist encyclopedia . He described Faller's life and work in St. Märgen and contributed his biography and catalog raisonné to the catalog for the exhibition on Faller's 300th birthday in St. Märgen.

Art guide

Hermann reached a large number of interested parties through his monographs in the series of art guides published by Schnell and Steiner and later by Josef Fink in Lindenberg in the Allgäu . Unless otherwise stated, the guides are sorted chronologically according to the year of the first edition.

Church building

As a pastor, Hermann was responsible for the renovation of his St. Gallus and Otmar church in Ehaben and the Berghauser chapel on the Schönberg saddle between Ehaben and Wittnau (Breisgau) . A unique achievement was the construction of a new church for the Catholic parish of Schallstadt-Wolfenweiler, established in 1972. The Catholics initially used rooms in the Protestant parish. It was not until 1992 that the foundation stone for a new church with a community center was laid on a plot of land between the districts of Schallstadt and Wolfenweiler, after which a chapel in Schallstadt was consecrated to St. Blaise .

Hermann's idea was to insert three baroque altars from the Gütenbach parish church of St. Katharina, which was demolished in 1963 and replaced by a new building , in a thoroughly modern central building . They had been in depots and had to be restored and supplemented. The integration was successful with the architects Josef Laule and Hans-Peter Heitzler: “In the relatively small church space, it was not possible to push the altars to the side or the back wall. There the sculptural and painterly extremely powerful altars would have defined the space. The only solution was to integrate it into the liturgical concept of the church. However, there were only models for this in existing churches, where old choirs were added to new church rooms, for example in Hinterzarten or Pfaffenweiler. In order to give the altars a relationship to their new location, the eastern part of the old choir tower church of Gütenbach was recreated to scale and added to the central area. The three old altars, symbol of the Trinity , are connected in the form of a cross with the new celebration altar ... The high, open roof space, with its skylight above the congregation area, balances the weight of the three altars. "Works by Matthias Faller, Johann Pfunner (1716–1788) and Simon Göser thus retained their sacred purpose. "Odyssey and a happy ending," wrote Hermann.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary on the website of the pastoral care unit Batzenberg-Schönberg. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
  2. ^ Obituary in the Badische Zeitung on October 27, 2011. Accessed on July 13, 2012.
  3. ↑ Manfred Hermann: The St. Anthony the Hermit. In: Oberländer Chronik 1965, No. 290, without page count.
  4. ^ Manfred Hermann: The Antoniterhaus in Villingen. In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of Baar 28, 1970, pp. 121–141. (PDF; 71.3 MB) Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  5. ↑ Manfred Hermann: The Turn- and Taxi'schen Postanstalten in Hohenzollern. In: Hohenzollerische Heimat 23, 1973, pp. 38–40.
  6. ^ Manfred Hermann: On the postal history of Veringenstadt / Hohenzollern. In: Hohenzollerische Heimat 24, 1974, pp. 30–31.
  7. ↑ Manfred Hermann: The Thurn and Taxische Postablage Burladingen. In: Hohenzollerische Heimat 27, 1977, p. 27.
  8. ^ Manfred Hermann: Folk art on the high mountain near Neufra. Evidence of popular piety on the Zollernalb. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1974. ISBN 3-7995-4022-9 .
  9. ^ Manfred Hermann: Art in the district of Sigmaringen - plastic. Hohenzollerische Landesbank, Kreissparkasse Sigmaringen (ed.), Sigmaringen 1986.
  10. ↑ H. Burkarth: Farewell to Pastor Hermann. In: Hohenzollerische Heimat 29, 1979, p. 63.
  11. ↑ Association for Village History Schallstadt-Mengen-Wolfenweiler (ed.): 1225 Years Mengen 776-2001. 2001.
  12. ↑ Manfred Hermann and Hermann Brommer: The sculptors Hauser in Kirchzarten, Schlettstadt and Freiburg i. Br. (1611-1842) Part II, in: Schau-ins-Land 94/95, 1976/77, pp. 165-200
  13. ↑ Manfred Hermann: To the Black Forest sculptors Winterhalder in Neukirch and Vöhrenbach. In: Bernd Mathias Kremer (ed.): Art and spiritual culture on the Upper Rhine. Festschrift for Hermann Brommer on his 70th birthday. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1996, pp. 61–83.
  14. ↑ Manfred Hermann: Matthias Faller and the Löffinger Baroque Allaries. In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of Baar 30, 1974, pp. 72–93. (PDF; 43.3 MB) Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  15. ↑ General Artist Lexicon Volume 36, 2003, pp. 430–432.
  16. ↑ Manfred Hermann: The Black Forest sculptor Matthias Faller (1707-91). His life and work in St. Märgen. Lindenberg, Josef Fink Art Publishing 2006.
  17. ^ Community of St. Märgen (ed.): Matthias Faller. The baroque sculptor from the Black Forest. Lindenberg, Josef Fink Kunstverlag 2007.
  18. ^ Amandus Wagenbrenner: Church leader of the Catholic parish church of St. Katharina in Gütenbach in the Black Forest. Specialized publisher for church photography, EK-Service Porth 2000.
  19. ↑ Josef Laule: On the architecture of the church. In: Sankt Blasius Schallstadt-Wolfenweiler. Self-published by the parish in 1994.
  20. ↑ Manfred Hermann: Odyssey and a happy ending. In: Sankt Blasius Schallstadt-Wolfenweiler. Self-published by the parish in 1994.
personal data
SURNAME Hermann, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic pastor and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Guttenbach
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2011
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau