Adam Liquier

Adam Liquier (* in Beaumont / Picardy of the Netherlands; † 1586 in Wolfenbüttel ; also Liquir, Lecuir ) was a German sculptor who created works in Braunschweig , Münden , Kassel and especially in Wolfenbüttel.

Life

Liquier was born in Beaumont in Picardy , then Dutch , and occasionally gave his name to the place of birth. It is known that Liquier married a woman from Münden in 1565. He lived briefly in Braunschweig and was only able to bring his wife from Kassel to Braunschweig in 1576. In Braunschweig he took on work that Paul Francke , the ducal master builder of Braunschweig, described as being in breach of the contract. After the death of his wife in 1577, Duke Julius arranged for his eldest son to attend the Riddagshauser monastery school. He later found employment in the Duke's office. Liquier's daughter came to Steterburg Abbey . From 1570 Liquier tried to settle in Wolfenbüttel and in 1579 a treaty referred to his citizenship in Wolfenbüttel. The younger son Samuel is documented as a sculptor in Wolfenbüttel from 1590.

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Magnificent portal of Liquier

He came with Elias Godefroy the Elder to the court in Kassel before 1560 and created the alabaster chamber in the old castle with his teacher Godefroy, as well as the tomb of Philip the Magnanimous and after the death of Godefroy († 1568) he completed this work. From 1562 he worked with Godefroy at the castle in Münden, where he met his wife. Liquier carried out the tomb for the author von Peine († 1566) and his wife Rickel von Stropke († September 10, 1561) in the Martinikirche in Braunschweig . From 1572 to 1576 he worked on the interior of the palace for Duke Julius of Braunschweig. This created the displeasure of the Hessian Landgrave Wilhelm IV, for whom he created an ornamental fountain in 1573. Duke Julius brokered several commissions for him from 1577, for example in the living area of ​​Wolfenbüttel Castle and at the altar of the castle chapel. Both works have not survived. He created a door frame on the Phillipsberg Bastion , which has also not been preserved. He designed the portrait bust of the Duke from 1577 at the entrance portal of the college building of the university in Helmstedt , which opened in 1576 , the Juleum . The epitaph of Duchess Sophie is attributed to him in the main church in Wolfenbüttel, as well as the tomb of Hereditary Marshal Barthold von Oldershusen († 1577) in the Marienkirche of Stendal . In Bremen town hall , a magnificent portal from the years 1577/78 is received from him.

Liquier was not only an excellent sculptor, but also a technician. He has received a construction plan and detailed sketches for the construction of a crane with a treadmill, which Duke zu Julius Braunschweig-Lüneburg commissioned him with to make the local quarries more efficient and more economical. According to this construction plan, a 1: 1 scale crane was built in 1981, which had no pulley system and no safety devices, but could lift a stone weighing up to 1,800 kilograms.

literature

• Peter Martens and Fritz Jankowski: Meister Adams Hebekran , in: Festschrift for the exhibition: Brunswiek 1031, Braunschweig 1981. The city of Heinrich the Lion from its beginnings to the present, ed. v. Gerd Spies, pp. 131–150, Waisenhaus-Druckerei, Braunschweig 1981
• Paul Jonas Meier : The sculptor's handicrafts in the city of Braunschweig since the Reformation. In: Workpieces from the museum, archive and library of the City of Braunschweig VIII., Appelhans, Braunschweig 1936.
• Christof Römer : Liquier (also Liquir, Lecuir), Adam . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 447-448 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meier: Kunsthandwerk, p. 14, (see literature)
2. ↑ Jarck: Lexikon, p. 447 (see literature)
3. ↑ Peter Martens et al: Meister Adams Hebekran, pp. 131–150 (see literature)