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Wieland, Johann Georg
(b Worblingen, ?21 Sept 1742; d Mimmenhausen, 8 Feb 1802). German sculptor. He was probably first trained by Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer at Mimmenhausen and his early figures, with their sharp contrapposto, were clearly influenced by Feuchtmayer’s sculpture. He is recorded as a journeyman in Salem in 1770 and from 1778 he was back in Mimmenhausen. He worked under Johann Georg Dirr (whose daughter he married in 1780) on the redecoration of the monastery church at Salem, and after Dirr’s death he completed the work himself in 1799. The interior of the Late Gothic church contains some of the most important Neo-classical decorations in south Germany. The grey austerity of the original architecture and Dirr’s and Wieland’s new alabaster sculpture complement each other impressively. The clearly visible tectonic system of the old church finds its natural counterpart in Wieland’s severely cubic, classicizing altars, which were in part inspired by the published designs of François de Neufforge. Wieland also worked in the monastery buildings at Salem: in 1780 he executed a panelled room with complete alabaster facing, in 1786–91 he worked on the library, and from 1788 he redecorated the Fürstenzimmer. Among his other works are the monument to Hermann von Königsegg-Rotenfels (d 1799) in the parish church at Aulendorf, where he also collaborated on the Marmorsaal at the castle, an altar in the monastery church (1783) at Weissenau and the high altar (1786) in the parish church at Salem (now in the parish church in Herdwangen).
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