Abraham César Lamoureux

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Bronze copy of King Christian V's equestrian statue on Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen

Abraham César Lamoureux (* around 1640 in Metz , † in April 1692 in Copenhagen ) was a French-born sculptor and stonemason of the Baroque who worked in Sweden and Copenhagen ( Denmark ). His best known work is "The Horse" on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen (a statue of King Christian V ), the first equestrian statue in Northern Europe.

life and work

There is little information about the origins, youth and education of Lamoureux. He was born in Metz in Lorraine (France) and had a younger brother Claude , also a sculptor, and a younger sister Magdalena, who was born in Hamburg around 1660 .

Together with his stepfather, the sculptor Jean Baptiste Dieussart , he came to Stockholm around 1664, when he entered the service of the Swedish Chancellor Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie . De la Gardie was Dieussart's main employer and patron until around 1668, when Lamoureux's mother , who was originally from Antwerp , died . It is likely that Lamoureux, and presumably his brother Claude, were their stepfather's apprentices or assistants at this point.

Around 1670 he was a journeyman of the sculptor Nicolaes Millich and lived with him in Stockholm's Bondesche Palais , but shortly afterwards he moved to Güstrow to see Charles Philippe Dieussart (a brother of his stepfather), who at the time was court architect and sculptor of Duke Gustav Adolph von Mecklenburg-Güstrow was. In 1671 Lamoureux was back in Sweden and, like his stepfather before him, entered the service of Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie.

Beginning in 1675 married Anna Lamoureux Thiel, a subsidiary of hoof and armourer and guild elders of the Stockholm armory Hans Thiel. In 1677 he became the court sculptor of Queen Hedwig Eleonora at Jakobsdal Castle and in September 1678 he was commissioned by his former employer De la Gardie to make sculptures of two hippocamps , a Neptune and a dragon for Karlberg Castle .

In 1681 Abraham César Lamoureux and his family, including his brother Claude, as well as his sister Magdalena and her husband, the Swedish sculptor and stonemason Johann Gustav Stockenberg , moved to Copenhagen in Denmark (it is believed that Lamoureux was made by Jens Juel from Swedish service was poached). There he took a position as court sculptor for King Christian V of Denmark with an annual salary of 400 Danish Rigsdalers, which was increased by a further 200 Rigsdalers from 1685. Work on the equestrian statue of Christian V probably began around 1682 when Lamoureux acquired material to make an equestrian statue. The erection of the statue on Kongens Nytorv in 1687 was attended by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger .

Abraham César Lamoureux died in Copenhagen in April 1692, where he was buried on April 27, 1692 in the Trinity Church.

Famous works

Original of the equestrian statue of King Christian V, which is in the Lapidarium of the Kings Museum in Copenhagen

Unfortunately, none of the works completed by Lamoureux in Sweden have survived. The only known surviving works are in Denmark:

Other works ascribed to him

A number of other works have been attributed to Lamoureux. These are:

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Abraham César Lamoureux. In: Kunstindeks Danmark : Weilbach's artist dictionary . Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen , Copenhagen, accessed on March 16, 2019 (Danish).
  2. ↑ a b c Marius Audin: Histoire d'un tailleur d'images: François Lamoureux . A. Rey, Lyon 1912, p. 358-385 (French, bnf.fr ).
  3. ↑ a b c Bertil Waldén: Nicolaes Millich och hans krets: study i den karolinska baroque sculptural construction . Saxon & Lindströms förlag, Stockholm 1942 (Swedish, limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ^ A b Emil Marquard: Fra arkiv og museum (= Østifternes historisk-topografiske selskab [ed.]: Series 2 ). Arnold Busck, Copenhagen 1925, Abraham Cæsar Lamoureux, p. 245–247 (Danish, limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ a b c Bertil Waldén: Jean Baptista Dieussart . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon . 1945 (Swedish, riksarkivet.se ).
  6. ^ Dieussart, Jean Baptista . In: Nils Bohman (Ed.): Svenskahaben och kvinnor. Biography uppslagsbok . 2. CF. Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm 1944, p. 262 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  7. ↑ August Hahr: Konst och konstnärer vid Magnus Gabriel de La Gardies hof: bidrag till den svenska konstforskningen . In: Skrifter utgivna av Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Uppsala . tape IX . Akademiska Bokhandeln, Uppsala 1905 (Swedish, archive.org ).
  8. ^ A b Henrik Cornell: Den svenska konstens historia . Aldus / Bonnier, Stockholm 1966 (Swedish).
  9. ↑ Åke Meyerson: Nicolaes Millich . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon . 1987 (Swedish, sok.riksarkivet.se ).
  10. ↑ Gustaf Upmark: The Renaissance architecture in Sweden, 1530-1760 . Gerhard Kühtmann, Dresden 1900, p. 99 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  11. ^ Osvald Sirén : Nicodemus Tessin d. y: s studieresor i Danmark, Tyskland, Holland, France and Italy; anteckningar, bref och ritningar . Norstedt, Stockholm 1914, p. 65 (Swedish).
  12. ↑ Hjalmar Friis: Rytterstatuens history i Europa fra oldtiden indtil Thorvaldsen . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1933 (Danish).
  13. ↑ Abraham-César Lamoureux . In: Vagn Poulsen; Erik Lassen; Jan Danielsen (Ed.): Dansk art history: Billedkunst og skulptur . tape 2 . Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 1973, p. 311 (Danish).
  14. ↑ Otto Andrup: Fortegnelse over Malerierne paa Gisselfeld monastery including i H. Exc. Grev Danneskjold-Samsøe til Grevskabet Samsøes Privatbesiddelse . Grœbes Bogtrykkeri, Copenhagen 1918, p. 15 (Danish, rex.kb.dk ).
  15. ↑ Hercules. In: Borchs Kollegiums gamle websted. Retrieved March 17, 2019 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Lamoureux, Abraham César
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-born sculptor and stonemason
DATE OF BIRTH around 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH April 1692
Place of death Copenhagen