Albert Kasch (carver)

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Albert Kasch (born February 15, 1866 in Doberan , † after 1919) was a German carpenter and carver .

Life

Albert Kasch was born as the younger son of the carpenter Fritz Kasch (* 1833) and probably of his wife Doris Kasch (* 1837). Little concrete information is known about his life. On July 14th, 1901, Kasch received his appointment as master carpenter in Mecklenburg-Schwerin . At the time of the 1900 census in Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Kasch was living as a master carpenter in Doberan (Baustraße 125), was married and had (at least) one daughter. In 1908 Albert Kasch was named in the list of court craftsmen. In 1919 he still lived in Doberan.

It has not yet been possible to determine whether a "Villa Kasch" (built before 1898) in Bad Doberan is connected to Albert Kasch.

Works

Carved altar in the Sternberg town church

Kasch seems to have worked primarily as a carpenter, working with Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel on the interior decoration of churches and also working as a carver.

So far, the following works by Albert Kasch have become known:

  • 2 m large Mecklenburg coat of arms in terracotta for the main facade of the Rostock estate (1892)
  • Art carvings in the Doberan sacristy annex (1893/94)
  • neo-Gothic carved altar and pulpit in the town church of Sternberg (1893/95)
  • Altar back wall of the Ticino city church (1896/97)
  • neo-Gothic altar (under Möckel) in the village church Parkentin near Doberan (1899); Of the carvings, there are still four "types of sacrifice" and some small ornaments in the church
  • Decorative figures (four evangelists) on the pulpit for the Trinity Church in Hainichen built by Möckel , design of the cheeks of the church stalls and the organ front ( St. Caecilia and King David with harp); the altar structure, also made by Kasch, with a relief representation of the Last Supper according to Leonardo da Vinci , was removed in 1961
  • Altar structure and pulpit, Luther Church in Danzig- Langfuhr (1899)

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin (official supplement), 1901, p. 197
  2. ↑ Around 1900 he is mentioned as a professor, but that doesn't sound plausible.
  3. ↑ She can only be recognized as Kasch's child because she still lived with her parents in 1900
  4. ^ Mecklenburg-Schwerin: Court craftsmen and court suppliers (1908)
  5. ↑ according to the Mecklenburg population census from October 1919
  6. ↑ Cf. website ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) of the Trinity Church.
  7. ↑ Hartmut Mai, Volkmar Herre: Churches in Saxony: from Classicism to Art Nouveau. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang 1992, p. 236
  8. ^ Evangelical Church in Langfuhr near Danzig , in: Deutsche Bauzeitung 35 (1901), p. 504; The church has been preserved and is used by the Catholic Church: pl: Parafia cywilno-wojskowa Matki Odkupiciela w Gdańsku

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personal data
SURNAME Kasch, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German carpenter and wood carver
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Doberan
DATE OF DEATH after 1908