Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg (Cologne, Oct. 18, 1837 - Utrecht, Feb. 6, 1919) was a German-Dutch sculptor, architect of church interiors and collector of art. Life and work Mengelberg was a son of Johann Edmund Egidius Mengelberg and Catharina Wilhelmina Leiniger, a Protestant couple in Cologne (in Prussia within the German Confederation). He became a Catholic at 18 and married Wilhelmina Anna Helena Schrattenholz on Oct. 18, 1866. Sixteen children were born to this marriage, including the later conductor Willem Mengelberg (1871-1951). Mengelberg began his education in Cologne at the Mengelbergsche Zeichenschule (founded by his grandfather Egidius Mengelberg) and with the sculptor Christoph Stephann. After completing his training, he started a studio in Cologne. After making a name for himself there - including the bronze doors of Cologne Cathedral - he left the studio to his brother Heinrich Otto Mengelberg and settled in Aachen. Thanks to the mediation of Aachen chaplain Franz Johann Joseph Bock (1823-1899), he was commissioned to build the bishop's seat of the Bishop of Utrecht in 1869. As a result of interest in neo-Gothic architecture in the Netherlands, he settled in Utrecht in 1872 and produced the interiors of St. Catherine's Cathedral and the Willibrordus Church there. Mengelberg worked closely with Pierre Cuypers and especially also with Alfred Tepe. Mengelberg's house on Maliebaan was also a design by Tepe and, like him, Mengelberg was also a member of the St. Bernulphus Guild that promoted the construction of Roman Catholic churches in neo-Gothic style. In addition, Mengelberg was active as a creator of "secular" visual art. Among the great multitude of recipients of this was the German composer and conductor Richard Strauss. The Mengelberg studio, in which an increasing number of artists came to work (more than thirty at the end of the 19th century), mainly produced interiors for churches: pulpits, high altars, confessionals, communion pews and stations of the cross. It was continued after his death by two of his sons Joseph and Hans. Son Otto had started his own studio for glass painting. The works of art collected by Mengelberg during his lifetime, the F.W. Mengelberg Collection, were sold after his death to Jan Herman van Heek, scion of the Van Heek textile family. The collection formed the core of the art collection in Huis Bergh. Some churches with interiors from the Mengelberg studio Cologne Cathedral St. Willibrord's Church in Utrecht De Krijtberg in Amsterdam St. Joseph Cathedral in Groningen H. Church of the Raising of the Cross in Raalte St. Michael's Church in Schalkwijk St. Nicholas basilica in IJsselstein St. Joseph's church in Enschede St. Cosmas and Damianus church in Abcoude St. Mary's church in Apeldoorn St. Vitus church in Hilversum St. Ludgerus church in Balk St. Michael's church in Harlingen St. Werenfridus church in Workum Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady in Zwolle St. Nicholas church in Jutphaas St. Pancratius church in 's-Heerenberg