Dietrich Meinardus

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Dietrich Meinardus (8 February 1804 – 5 January 1871) was a German sculptor and stone mason of the historicism in Düsseldorf.

Life[]

Statue of Germania on Friedrichsplatz in Düsseldorf at the Unity Festival on 6 August 1848, contemporary illustration
Jesuiten-Monument at the Golzheimer Friedhof (on the left)

Born in Ovelgönne, Herzogtum Oldenburg[1] the life and work of Meinardus are hardly researched.[2] In 1848, he appeared as the executive sculptor of a monumental Germania statue made of wood, cardboard and canvas, which the Düsseldorf painter Karl Ferdinand Sohn had designed for the "Fest of German Unity" on Düsseldorf's .[3] Together with painters from the Düsseldorf school of painting, he was one of the founders of the Malkasten in the same year.

Meinardus, a member of the city's Protestant community, lived in Düsseldorf's Altstadt, in 1838 in the [4]and at 380 Andreasstraße since the 1850s at the latest.[5] respectively 15.[6] At the beginning of the 1830s he opened his workshop for sculpture at  [de] No. 441 and advertised it with several years of study at the Kunstakademie and from certificates issued there.[7]

Meinardus mainly created sacred art, especially gravestones, and often cooperated with sculptors and architects who provided designs, such as the sculptors Julius Bayerle and  [de] and the architect Johannes Kühlwetter. Some of his works are preserved in the  [de]. The main sculptural work of this cemetery, the high cross architecturally designed by Johannes Kühlwetter, sculpturally executed by Meinardus and equipped with figures by Götting (Christ) and Bayerle (Mary),[8] was erected in 1850.[9] It was relocated to the so-called "Millionenhügel" of the in 1905 because of the construction of , which has cut through the cemetery at the original site of the high cross since 1903/1904. A significant further work produced in cooperation between Kühlwetter and Meinardus was the 1843 Jesuit Monument, a communal grave with a stele in the form of a Neogothic pinnacle made of sandstone, commemorating the clergy of the Society of Jesus order active in Prussian times at the Andreaskirche.[10]

Meinardus died in 1871 at the age of 66 in Düsseldorf.[11] He was buried in the grave of his wife Luise, née Dallemscheid (1812-1868), in the Golzheim cemetery.[11]

After Meinardus' death, his workshop was continued by his son Alexander Meinardus (23 July 1843 - 23 June 1891).[12] In the third generation, Dietrich Meinardus' grandson Paul took over[13] the workshop and also signed under the name 'Dietrich Meinardus'. The grandson Siegfried (1874-1933) also became a sculptor.[14][15]

References[]

  1. ^ Johann Josef Scotti: Die Düsseldorfer Maler-Schule, oder auch Kunst-Akademie in den Jahren 1834, 1835 und 1836, und auch vorher und nachher. Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 135 (Numerized)
  2. ^ Helga Becker: Anton Josef Reiss (1835–1900). Leben und Werk. Dissertation an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 2016. Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8288-3861-1, p. 20 (Google Books, PDF)
  3. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: Zur Geschichte der Düsseldorfer Kunst, insbesondere im XIX. Jahrhundert. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 187.
  4. ^ Johann Friedrich Benzenberg: Alphabetisches Verzeichniß der stimmenberechtigten Mitglieder der evangelischen Gemeinde in Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 1839, p. 16, Nr. 461
  5. ^ C. E. Lehmann (ed.): Wohnungs-Anzeiger und Adreßbuch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf pro 1850. Düsseldorf 1850, p. 126 (Google Books)
  6. ^ Adreßbuch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf auf das Jahr 1859. Düsseldorf 1859, p. 54 (Numerized)
  7. ^ Anzeige D. Meinardus, Bildhauer, Bolkerstraße 441, in Düsseldorfer Zeitung (No. 114) from 13 May 1834 (No. 114)
  8. ^ Grabmäler auf dem Nordfriedhof. Abbildung Nr. 4. In Rheinische Post. retrieved 9 September 2021.
  9. ^ Otto Schmitz: Der Golzheimer Friedhof. Ein Spaziergang über den alten Friedhof zu Düsseldorf. Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-156-1 [ Der Golzheimer Friedhof (PDF)]
  10. ^ Jesuiten-Monument. Webseite im Portal der-golzheimer-friedhof-soll-leben.de, retrieved 9 September 2021.
  11. ^ a b Herbert M. Schleicher (Redaktion) (1990). Der Golzheimer Friedhof zu Düsseldorf. Rheinische Friedhöfe. Vol. 5. Cologne: Westdeutsche Gesellschaft für Familienkunde e. V. pp. 126, 219.
  12. ^ Bildhauer. In Adreßbuch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf für das Jahr 1876. p. 95. (Numerized)
  13. ^ Under No. 3663 of the register of companies, the company "Meinardus" Bildhauerei with its registered office in Düsseldorf was registered today and the sculptor Paul Dietrich Meinardus was entered as its owner, Düsseldorf, 10 June 1896., in Düsseldorfer Volksblatt (No. 163) from 15 June 1896
  14. ^ Helmut Ebert: Deutsches Künstlerverzeichnis ab 1800. Selbstverlag, Münster 2011, p. 618. (Numerized)
  15. ^ Meinardus, Paul Diether, Bildhauer, Inhaber der Firma D. Meinardus, Duisburger Straße 38; Meinardus, Siegfrid, Jülicher Straße 28, in Adreßbuch für die Stadtgemeinde Düsseldorf 1909, p. 364

Further reading[]

  • Inge Zacher: Friedhofsanlagen und Grabmäler der kommunalen Friedhöfe. In , Willy Weyres (ed.): Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im Rheinland. Vol. IV: Plastik. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30254-2, p. 417.
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