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Johann Christian Wentzinger: Death of St. Gallus   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Johann Christian Wentzinger  (1710–1797)  wikidata:Q106952
 
Johann Christian Wentzinger
Alternative names
Christian Wenzinger; christian wenzinger; chr. wenzinger; ch. wenzinger
Description German architect, sculptor and painter
Date of birth/death 10 December 1710 Edit this at Wikidata 1 July 1797 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ehrenkirchen Freiburg im Breisgau
Work period 1725 Edit this at Wikidata–1797 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q106952
Photographer
Martin Thurnherr
Title
Death of St. Gallus
Description

The eight reliefs in the side rooms of the rotunda above the passages were created by Johann Christian Wentzinger (or Wenzinger) himself. They are of particular importance within the entire stucco decoration in the collegiate church. The figures are shaped in pronounced three-dimensionality and are heavily undercut. As a result, the reliefs remain pictorially effective from different oblique views. The figures only occupy the spatial zone in front of the relief ground. For this is not designed in perspective as an illusionary space; rather, it is empty. This creates ambiguity: on the one hand, it reveals itself as a wall surface behind picture frames and figures. On the other hand, paradoxically, it does not appear solid and impenetrable, but becomes a free space for the moving figures to act.

The eight reliefs depict scenes from the life of St Gallus. They are to be understood as exemplary beyond the purely biographical episode. Each episode can stand alone. Their position in the room makes it impossible to read them chronologically anyway.

The crowning title rocaille above the relief bears the inscription MORI LUCRUM (To die is gain). This title alludes to the words of St Paul: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21) This word fits Gallus well. The dying Gallus lies on a bed roughly made of squared timber. He has one leg bent, which testifies to life, the other leg hanging limply over the cot, which stands for death. Underneath lies the cane, which protrudes beyond the frame, as does the heavy bedspread, which hangs far down into the room. Two dignified monks are caring for the dying man who has been raised with pillows. The relief depicts the moment between life and death.
Date between 1757 and 1759
date QS:P571,+1757-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1757-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1759-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q144945
Place of creation St. Gallen cathedral, Switzerland Switzerland
Inscriptions

Cartouche top in stucco:

MORI LUCRUM
[Dying is a gain]
Notes
This is an image of a cultural property of national significance in Switzerland with KGS number
08312
References
  • Josef Grünenfelder: Die Stuckreliefs. In: Josef Grünenfelder (Herausgeber): Die Kathedrale St. Gallen. Das spätbarocke Bauwerk und seine Ausstattung. St. Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2018, ISBN 9783905906240, S. 165-175
  • Ulrike Elisabeth Weiss: Johann Christian Wenzinger als (zunft-)«freier Künstler» und die Reliefs der Gallusvita. In: Josef Grünenfelder (Herausgeber): Die Kathedrale St. Gallen. Das spätbarocke Bauwerk und seine Ausstattung. St. Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2018, ISBN 9783905906240, S. 383-413
  • Erwin Poeschel: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons St. Gallen. Band III: Die Stadt St. Gallen. Zweiter Teil: Das Stift. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1961, (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz, herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für schweizerische Kunstgeschichte, Band 45), S. 172-179
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Stucco reliefs from the life of St. Gallus

  1. Dressing Fridiburga
  2. Destruction of the idols in Tuggen
  3. The blessing of the Father
  4. Death of St. Gallus
  5. King Sigisbert grants a letter of protection
  6. Mass of St. Gallus
  7. Homily of St. Gallus
  8. Gallus distributes alms
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