Anton Joseph Stratmann

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Anton Joseph Stratmann (* 1732 in Paderborn ; † February 12, 1807 there ) was a German artist of the 18th century. He was a representative of the late baroque in Westphalia .

Altar of the Laer Castle Chapel

Life

origin

Stratmann came from a family of painters who worked in the Westphalia area between the 16th and 19th centuries. His parents were the painter Johann Heinrich Stratmann (1708–1755) and Anna Maria Magdalena Woltemate (1703–1755), who also came from a family of painters.

Anton Joseph was the firstborn son. In contrast to his father and his ancestors, he managed to raise the art of painting to a new level. But his younger brother Johann Heinrich Joseph Stratmann (1736–1805) also became one of the most important sculptors in Westphalia. Little is known about Anton's youth in Paderborn. The citizen role shows the Kämper peasantry around the Gaukirche . Anton was baptized in the Busdorf Church. The family later seemed to have lived in the Giersbauerschaft (Casseler Strasse).

education

Although Stratmann was able to read and write, there is no evidence that he attended a higher school, for example at the Gymnasium Theodorianum . He probably only attended the elementary school of the Busdorf Church. The first-born was chosen as the successor to his father's painting trade without any guild rules. Around 6 years of apprenticeship from the age of 12 to 14 were common at this time. Stratmann did not become a journeyman, but chose the other alternative, wandering. In 1754 Stratmann became an apprentice to the Antwerp guild master Joseph Vervoort . From October 1754 to March 1755, Stratmann took the drawing course at the Antwerp Art Academy and won first prize in the competition, a silver sauce , presented by Mayor Dellafaille . Antwerp was in decline due to the closure of the Scheldt . The art academy was therefore not one of the top addresses in the 18th century. For Stratmann, however, attending school in the Catholic Austrian Netherlands was an obvious choice.

Life as an artist

On the occasion of the death of his parents in 1755, Stratmann returned to Westphalia early on. Stratmann's presence in Paderborn can only be proven in 1760. But the painter was able to establish himself in the capital of the monastery during the Seven Years' War , which devastated the prince-bishopric . A color version of a Liborius figure in Eissen is documented as the first work on March 8, 1760 .

On October 20, 1764 Stratmann married Maria Clara Elisabeth Kothe (1743–1782). Best man was his brother, the sculptor Johann Heinrich Joseph Stratmann . If Stratmann was still based near the Busdorf Church, the young family moved to the Marktkirch parish, where the Kothes probably also lived. On December 12, 1766, Stratmann was accordingly accepted into the western farming community. The Stratmanns moved to Westernstrasse right next to the Franciscan monastery (today house number 15). Nine children were born to the couple between 1766 and 1781. Six died in childhood. Only two sons survived their parents: Anton Ferdinand (1770–1844), who was also a painter, but also a businessman and in 1808 a police commissioner in the Kingdom of Westphalia , and Franz Anton Adolf (1774–?), Later a lieutenant in the prince-bishop's infantry regiment . The first-born Friedrich Jakob Aloysius Joseph died in 1786 as a theology student at Paderborn University . Maria Clara died in 1782. Three years later he married Maria Anna Block from the prince-bishop's residence town of Neuhaus . Only Johanna Catharina Elisabeth (1788-?) Emerged from this marriage.

Unlike Johann Georg Rudolphi, who was important in the bishopric in the 17th century, Stratmann never held any public office.

Anton Joseph Stratmann died on February 12, 1807 in Paderborn. In the church register of the Marktkirche, the cause of death is given as “exhaustion”. It is also mentioned that Stratmann spent his last two years in bed.

Artistic work

Not least because of his training in Antwerp, Stratmann's artistic work was entirely in the tradition of Flemish painting. Stratmann was not only skilled in his craft, he also managed to adapt to the market. This included that he mainly served clergy and noble clients.

One of his most important activities was the decoration of the castle in Münster . He has also made numerous portraits of contemporary prince-bishops and other personalities. In 1767 he created an altar for Prince-Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen in the castle chapel at Laer Castle with a painting of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist and statues of Saint Liborius and Saint Godehard. In Remblinghausen and in the Benedictine Huysburg he has also created altars. The same applies to the chapel of Schwarzenraben Castle near Lippstadt.

For the Hildesheim Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption , the second center of veneration for the Three Kings in Germany after Cologne Cathedral , Stratmann created the much-visited Three Kings Altar in the north aisle in 1773. The rococo reredos with the crib and the homage to the Christ child by Kaspar, Melchior and Balthasar burned completely in the air raid on Hildesheim on March 22, 1945. Two other carvings by Stratmann suffered the same fate at the same hour. For the Capuchin Church , today's seminary church , he designed the altar and pulpit in the same style in 1772. Their sound covers were carried by putti , only one of which survived the firestorm . Today it is in the Cathedral Museum . and delights the viewer with its lively lightness and a cheerfulness turned towards the sky.

Catalog raisonné

The following list and its numbering is based entirely on straw man (see lit.). Destroyed and unpublished works are not listed here.

Borgentreich - Lütgeneder , cath. Parish Church of St. Michael

    • Catalog raisonné A19 Archangel Michael fighting with Satan

Brakel - Erkeln , cath. Parish Church of St. Petri Chains

    • Catalog raisonné A36 St. Joseph with the boy Jesus
    • Catalog raisonné A37 St. Peter with the rooster
    • Catalog raisonné A38 Christ as Good Shepherd

Brakel Rheder , cath. Parish Church of St. Catherine

    • Catalog raisonné A7 Vision of St. Johannes von Matha and Blessed Felix von Valois

Brilon , cath. Church of St. Nikolai, former Minorite Church

    • Catalog raisonné A14 Adoration of the Magi

Büren , former. Jesuit Church Maria Immaculata

    • Catalog raisonné A8 Maria Immaculata with the Jesuit saints Ignatius, Franz Xaver, Stanislaus and Aloysius,
    • Catalog raisonné A9 The Holy Trinity in anticipation of Maria Immaculata ascending to heaven

Büren, Wewelsburg

Coesfeld , Protestant parish church, former Jesuit church

    • Catalog raisonné A25 Last Supper

Detmold , Westphalian Open Air Museum , "Schönhof"

Dingelstedt - Huysburg , Benedictine monastery and parish church St ,. Maria recording

    • Catalog raisonné A18 Assumption of Mary
    • Catalog raisonné A23 Crucifixion of Christ
    • Catalog raisonné A24 Maria Immaculata

Erwitte , Catholic parish church St. Laurentius

    • Catalog raisonné A3 Assumption of Mary

Geseke Kath. Church St. Johannes Bapt.

    • Catalog raisonné A2 Adoration of the Shepherd

Hildesheim , Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim

    • Catalog raisonné B1 Playing putti with billy goat
    • Catalog raisonné B2 Playing putti with billy goat
    • Catalog raisonné B3 Playing Putti

Höxter - Bruchhausen , cath. Parish Church of the Assumption

    • Catalog raisonné A11 Holy Freifaltigkeit

Meschede , Laer House, St. John's Chapel

    • Catalog raisonné A5 Baptism of Christ

Münster , city museum

Nieheim - Sommersell , cath. Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul

Nordkirchen , Südkirchen , cath. Parish Church of St. Pankratius

    • Catalog raisonné A17 Maria Immaculata

Paderborn , cathedral , Marienkapelle

    • Catalog raisonné A13 Altar Painting
    • Catalog raisonné A15 St. John of Nepomuk in front of the miraculous image of Our Lady in Altbunzlau

Paderborn , Archbishop's Diocesan Museum

    • Catalog raisonné A16 Annunciation of Mary
    • Catalog raisonné A20 Madonna with the grape
    • Catalog raisonné A26 Adoration of the Shepherds

Paderborn, Archbishop's Palace

    • Catalog raisonné A21 St. Liborius

Paderborn, Franciscan monastery

    • Catalog raisonné A6 Host miracle of St. Antony
    • Catalog raisonné C56 Portrait of Emperor Joseph II of Habsburg-Lothringen
    • Catalog raisonné C58 Portrait of François Gaspard de Jouffroy-Gonssans

Paderborn, Museum of City History , Adam and Eve House

Paderborn, Leokonvikt seminary

    • Catalog raisonné C46 Portrait of Prince-Bishop Wilhelm Anton von der Asseburg

Paderborn- Neuhaus Castle , cath. Parish church of St. Heinrich and Kunigunde

    • Catalog raisonné A27-31 Cycle of Saints (Saints Peter, Paulus, Blasius, Felix, Stephanus)

Rietberg , cath. Rectory St. Johannes Bapt.

Rüthen - Altenrüthen Catholic parish church St. Gervasius

    • Catalog raisonné A1 Adoration of St. Eucharist through angels, A4 Crucifixion of Christ

Rüthen- Kallenhardt , cath. Parish Church of St. Clement

    • Catalog raisonné A12 Assumption of Mary

Rüthen-Kallenhardt, Körtlinghausen Castle

Schmallenberg - Gleidorf , cath. Sacred Heart Church

    • St. Anthony of Padua, St. Joseph and Radiant Madonna
St. Agatha on the inner gable of the Grafschafter West Gate monastery

Schmallenberg- Grafschaft , inner gable of the Grafschafter Westtores monastery

    • St. Agatha on the inner gable from 1770 of the Grafschafter west gate

Warburg - Germete , cath. Parish Church of St. Nicholas

    • Catalog raisonné A32 St. Peter
    • Catalog raisonné A33 St. Aloysius
    • Catalog raisonné A34 St. Joseph
    • Catalog raisonné A35 St. Anna Maria instructing

Bad Wünnenberg - Fürstenberg , cath. Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary

    • Catalog raisonné A10 St. Meinulf

Private property Westphalia :

literature

  • Dirk Strohmann: Anton Josef Stratmann 1734-1807: Life and work of a painter from the Paderborn Hochstift (=  studies and sources on Westphalian history . Volume 33 ). Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-87088-989-6 .
  • Jochen Zink: Hildesheim works by the sculptor Joseph Stratmann from Paderborn . In: Low German contributions to art history . tape 25 , 1986, pp. 115-142 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His maternal grandfather was Jodokus Woltemate (approx. 1660–1738). The Stratmann family originally came from Höxter , but acquired Paderborn citizenship as early as 1592. During the Thirty Years' War , the great-grandfather of Anton Joseph Heinrich Stratmann (before 1592–1652 / 55) emigrated with his father Gerd from Paderborn to the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia . His grandson Alexander (1653–1715) died early and so at least two of his children Johann Heinrich and Johanna Maria moved back to Paderborn. See Strohmann 1997: 12ff
  2. ^ Cleff, Anne: Johann Henrich Joseph Stratmann. A Geseker sculptor of the late 18th century, in: Geseker Heimatblätter, No. 295-298, 1986.
  3. ↑ Jochen Zink: Hildesheim works by the sculptor Joseph Stratmann from Paderborn. In: Low German Contributions to Art History 25 (1986), pp. 115–142.
  4. ↑ Franz Klanitz: Works by the Baroque sculptor Joseph Stratmann in Gleidorf and Grafschaft , p. 120 ff., In Schmallenberger Sauerland Almanach 1991, City of Schmallenberg and Holthausen Slate Mining Museum (ed.)
personal data
SURNAME Stratmann, Anton Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1807
Place of death Paderborn