Toni Schneider-Manzell

Speyer Cathedral , main portal (detail)

Toni Schneider-Manzell (born February 22, 1911 in Manzell near Friedrichshafen , † November 7, 1996 in Rosenheim , Upper Bavaria) was a German - Austrian sculptor .

biography

Toni Schneider, who later added the name of his place of birth to his personal name, attended the Munich Academy and then worked on it in Ascona in Ticino, Switzerland . In 1944 he moved to Austria, initially to Weitwörth near Salzburg and in 1955 to Salzburg itself. There he created the gate (of faith), the pulpit and the lid of the baptismal font of Salzburg Cathedral . He was one of the circle of acquaintances of the director Hans Conrad Fischer and his daughter Nela, a painter who died young, with whom he maintained a lively artistic exchange in Salzburg, especially after her illness.

Schneider-Manzell was known for the cultivation of ancient statuary, a sensitive surface treatment of bronze , to expressive qualities of the restrained, internalized, dreamy and humble. This is particularly evident in his reliefs , small sculptures and portrait heads , which are treated in a painterly manner to the point of sketchiness . The same noble handling of traditions , which can coexist with venerable works of the past, predestined Schneider-Manzell to be the leading sacral sculptor in German-speaking countries. His best-known works include the cathedral doors and the Way of the Cross in Essen (1978–1980) and Speyer (1967–1971), the monuments to Julius Raab in Vienna (1967), Cardinal Galen in Münster (1978) and Graf Zeppelin (1985) as well the Traklbrunnen (1957) and the "Vinzentinerin" (1986) in Salzburg.

Awards

• 1958: Grand Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts
• 1960: Upper Swabian Art Prize
• 1976: Large Federal Cross of Merit
• 1981: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Works (selection)

Well figure in Otterswang

Statue "Dear Augustin" in Wasserburg on Lake Constance

• Portal (“Gate of Faith”) and pulpit in Salzburg Cathedral
• Way of the Cross in cast bronze and bas-reliefs on the ambes in the parish church of Liesing in Vienna
• Trakl fountain in the courtyard of the central rectorate and administration building of the University of Salzburg , Kapitelgasse 4–6, 1957
• 5 bronze gates of the Great Festival Hall in Salzburg (entrances from Hofstallgasse)
• Julius Raab monument in the Volksgarten Vienna , 1967
• on the culture promenade in Strobl
• Mother Mozart Fountain in St. Gilgen
• Stone statue of St. Wolfgang at the entrance to the church and the cast stone relief at the war memorial in Fusch an der Glocknerstrasse
• Zeppelin memorial (13 meters high) in Friedrichshafen, 1985
• Sacrament column with bronze tabernacle, reliefs of St. Leonhard (entrance, door handles) in the pilgrimage church of St. Leonhard near Tamsweg
• Way of the Cross in St. Thaddäus Church in Augsburg
• Bronze main portal of the Speyer Cathedral
• Cross column and Easter candlestick in the St. Jakobus Church in Mannheim-Neckarau , 1976/1986
• Bronze portals of the Essen Minster , 1978–1979
• Way of the Cross frieze in Essen Minster 1976–1977
• Village fountain, Bad Schussenried -Otterswang
• Wooden sculpture "DAPHNE" made in 1975 (privately owned in Vienna)
• Bronze figure "Dear Augustin" 1974 (Gustl Sumser) in Wasserburg (Lake Constance)

literature

• Angelika Burger:  Schneider-Manzell, Toni. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 312 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Manfred Kleiss: Annunciation in bronze. Toni Schneider-Manzell's works in Mannheim-Neckarau . In: Mannheimer Hefte, 1987, pp. 50-54
• Johann Kronbichler : Toni Schneider-Manzell . In: Das Münster, 50 (1997), pp. 91-92
• Karl-Markus Ritter (Ed.): The main portal at the Imperial Cathedral in Speyer. Ut unum sint - so that they may be one . (= Great Art Guide; Volume 211). Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-7954-1450-4
• Alfred Slatner: Toni Schneider-Manzell . Tyrolia, Innsbruck and Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-7022-1795-9
• Martin Walser : Where does this beauty come from? About the sculptor Toni Schneider-Manzell . In: Martin Walser: Where does this beauty come from. About art, about artists, about pictures . Edition Isele, Eggingen 2004, ISBN 3-86142-313-8 , pp. 22-25

Web links

Commons : Toni Schneider-Manzell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Toni Schneider-Manzell in the catalog of the German National Library
• Toni Schneider-Manzell in the original sound in the online archive of the Austrian media library