Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg
Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg ( born October 18, 1837 in Cologne, † February 6, 1919 in Utrecht ) was a German - Dutch sculptor.
Mengelberg was the son of Cologne Drechsler Johann Edmund Egidius Mengelberg. Like his grandfather Egidius Mengelberg and his uncle Otto Mengelberg he soon turned to the visual arts. Already eighteen of his father converted to Catholicism baptized Protestant, the confession of his grandfather. He studied at the " Mengelberg 's Drawing School " of his grandfather and at the Cologne sculptor Christoph Stephann ( 1797-1864 ). Was the training at the Drawing School of the grandfather initially based on classicism, took over in 1849 with the new head Friedrich von Schmidt, a pioneer of historicism, namely the Gothic Revival school and opened it for the study of medieval art.
After completing the drawing school Mengelberg founded a sculpture workshop in Cologne. There, he also learned the sacred art historian and Aachen Rev. Franz Johann Joseph Bock (1823-1899) know that further conveyed his interest in the art of Gothic. In 1865 he handed over the Cologne workshop his brother Otto ( 1841-1891 ) and went to Aachen. Well mediated by Bock he received in 1868 a contract for the production of a bishop's chair for the St. Catherine's Cathedral in Utrecht, the execution of which has been so well received that Mengelberg was asked by the client to settle in Utrecht, where he moved in 1869.
Mengelberg came into Utrecht in St. Bernulphusgilde that as a group of Catholic priests around the Kaplan GW van Heukelum (1834-1910) had the preservation of national tradition and expertise in religious art and architecture to the target. In particular, the medieval indigenous styles and the use of indigenous materials such as brick were of importance here. Through the guild he also met with the architect Alfred Tepe, with whom he worked first, and built the also the house in which Mengelberg lived from 1872 until his death. His studio in Utrecht prospered and in 1890 already 32 employees. One of his employees was one of the already in Aachen working for Mengelberg sculptor Hubert Ludwig Jungblut (1852-1929), who contributed numerous designs for the workshop. Together with Tepe coined the neo-Gothic Catholic church Mengelberg the Netherlands in the 19th century sustainable. Among the church buildings in which he participated, include St. Michael in Schalkwijk, St. Catherine and Willibrord in Utrecht and St. Nicholas in IJsselstein. High altars of Mengelberg are, for example, in the Krijtberg Church in Amsterdam, in St. Vitus in Hilversum and in the Church of Our Lady in Zwolle.
His contacts with the Rhineland held Mengelberg live long upright so as to the art historian and collector Alexander Schnütgen. 1888 Mengelberg won the design competition for the bronze doors of the lining of the central portal of the north side of the Cologne Cathedral, which were performed according to its design. Even the Three king altar, Stations of the Cross and some other pieces in the cathedral are from Mengelberg. In 1898, he created the tendrils work for wing pictures painted by Heinrich Nüttgens for the St. Anne's Altar of the Imperial Cathedral in Frankfurt am Main.
From 1866 closed marriage Mengelberg with Anna Helena Wilhelmina Schrattenholz eight sons and eight daughters were born. The eldest son Otto Mengelberg (1868-1934) became a major glass-painter, the sons of Joseph (1874-1940) and Hans (1885-1945) worked in his father's business, and led him on to his death. Mengelberg's son Willem (1871-1951) was an internationally noted conductor.
In 1896 he created the high altar and the confessional in the neo - Gothic for the St. Immaculate Conception Church in Dusseldorf.