Peter Valentin (sculptor)

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Peter Valentin (born November 15, 1877 in Brixen , † 1962 in Offenburg ) was a sculptor.

Life and works

Valentin was trained in Brixen with August Valentin and later in the art academy in Munich . During his studies he also worked in Augsburg and Florence . In 1904 he settled in Offenburg, where he lived in the villa area on Schwarzwaldstrasse. In the same year his son Peter , who became a painter and draftsman, was born there.

Valentin mainly created works of a religious nature and was involved in furnishing the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Zurich . More works by Valentine can be found in Offenburg, Neusatz, Wriezen , Dinglingen , Steinbach, in a Bruchsal cemetery, in Schonach and in Lautenbach.

For the Church of the Holy Trinity , the second Catholic church in Offenburg, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1906, he created the figures of Joseph , Mary , the baby Jesus and the apostles. Offenburg citizens sat for him as a model. The memorial for the dead of World War I in this church is also by Valentin. It shows praying child angels over a frieze of iron crosses.

The church of St. Karl Borromäus in Neusatz in the Black Forest houses a sculptural representation of the Last Supper by the artist.

In 1910 he created the side altars and a columned Madonna for the Haslach Church of St. Arbogast . Around the same time he designed a new, baroque- style main altar for the parish church of St. Vinzenz in Liel .

The altar of the chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows in Wolpadingen , consecrated in 1936 , was also made by Valentin. A Saint Theresa of the child of Jesus Valentine stands in the church of St. Leodegar in Oberschopfheim . On the right outside wall of the Church of St. Boniface in Emmendingen one is neo-gothic Mount of Olives by Valentin attached.

Valentine's statues of St. Anthony of Padua and St. Elisabeth of Thuringia in the parish church of St. Sophia in Erbach date from 1920 .

In 1925 Peter Valentin created a Pietà out of white marble for the war memorial chapel of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Karlsruhe-Durlach .

In the 1930s he added the side altars of St. Martin in Endingen.

Hermann Brommer attested that his works were "sometimes almost classic" looking.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hermann Brommer: Haslach im Kinzigtal , Munich / Zurich 1978 (= Schnell, Art Guide No. 1144), p. 14.
  2. ↑ Bring the bizarre to the light of day , in: Badische Zeitung , June 12, 2009 ( badische-zeitung.de ).
  3. ↑ Valentin, Peter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 65 .
  4. ^ Robert Zollitsch , 100 years of consecration to the Holy Trinity Offenburg. October 26, 2008. p. 2 ( www2.erzbistum-freiburg.de PDF).
  5. ↑ Where Hindenburg meets his victims. The Offenburg Oststadt tells of the First World War , in: Badische Zeitung. August 25, 2014 ( badische-zeitung.de ).
  6. ↑ Ulrich Coenen: Sacred architecture still wears its festive garb. The original furnishings and painting of the Neusatz parish church of St. Karl Borromeo have been preserved , FIG . 8 March 2013 ( kath-ottersweier-maria-linden.de ).
  7. ↑ On the history of the Liel parish church St. Vinzenz , on kath-schliengen.de .
  8. ↑ Chapel of the Sorrowful Mother of God in Wolpadingen , on Schwarzwald-tourismus.info .
  9. ↑ St. Leodegar Oberschopfheim , on se-friesenheim.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.se-friesenheim.de  
  10. ↑ Damian Slacza, Church Leader St. Bonifatius , o. O., o. J., p. 4.
  11. ↑ Parish Church of St. Sophia , on dcms.bistummainz.de .
  12. ↑ St. Peter and Paul in Karlsruhe-Durlach , on stadtlexikon.karlsruhe.de
  13. ^ Hermann Brommer: Building history of the pilgrimage church , on senoka.de .
personal data
SURNAME Valentin, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixen
DATE OF DEATH 1962
Place of death Offenburg