Event: The Mutschele family of sculptors from Bamberg

To accompany the current special exhibition at the Ebermannstadt Local History Museum, this lecture – organised in collaboration with the Ebermannstadt Cultural Association and the Forchheim Adult Education Centre – offers an insight into the work of the Mutschele sculptors’ workshop in Bamberg. The sculptor Johann Georg Mutschele (c. 1690–1746) took over the workshop of Sebastian Degler in Bamberg, near St. Gangolf, in 1730. Johann Georg’s sons also learnt the craft of sculpture. Whilst Bonaventura Joseph (1728–80/82) left Bamberg, Johann (known as Franz) Martin (1733–1804) took over his father’s workshop, where Friedrich Theiler was trained and which was managed from 1785 onwards by Franz Martin’s son Georg Joseph. Works of art by three generations of the Mutschele family provide an insight into the artistic life of the royal seat of Bamberg in the 18th century.

Free admission

Photo: Claudia Maué, The Sculptures of the 17th and 18th Centuries in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Part 1: Franconia, Mainz am Rhein 1997, Cat. 65, ill. p. 171.