Christian Philipp Wolff

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Christian Philipp Wolff (born June 17, 1772 in Helsen ; † August 27, 1820 in Berlin ) was a German builder , plasterer and sculptor .

Life

Wolff was the son of the Princely Waldeck's valet and court tailor Johann Wilhelm Wolff (1725–1784) and his second wife Anna Elisabeth Christina Sude (? -1790), from Heringhausen ( Diemelsee municipality in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district ). On September 18, 1809, he married the forester's daughter Maria Christiane Wilhelmine Siemers in the church in Rödlin . Both had four children, the best known of whom is the sculptor Albert Wolff .

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Hope comforts mourning (1798), Hohenzieritz Castle

Wolff learned together with Christian Daniel Rauch from the sculptor Johann Christian Friedrich Valentin (1752-1819) in Bad Arolsen , where he also went to school. He has been a sculptor in Neustrelitz since 1797 . The wedding entry in 1809 names him as a ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz construction manager. Since 1816 he was a Mecklenburg-Strelitzscher builder. There he was the builder of the Luise temple in Hohenzieritz , the palace for Princess Friederike, the Wildhof, the powder tower and the Hobe fountain in the Schlosskoppel in Neustrelitz. He also built the Palais Neubrandenburg in the Grand Duchy . His main task, however, was the conversion of the castle to Neustrelitz . Sculptures by Luise Queen of Prussia and Karl II. Grand Duke of Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He made the death mask of Queen Luise , which served as a template for the famous sculpture of his friend Christian Daniel Rauch .

literature

  • Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of the Visual Artists. Volume 36. Leipzig 1947, p. 193.
  • Sven-Hinrich Siemers: The Mecklenburg-Strelitzer court architect Wolff. A forgotten sculptor from Waldeck. In: History sheets for Waldeck. Volume 97 (2009), pp. 102-111.
  • Konrad Hustaedt: Christian Philipp Wolff. A Mecklenburg-Strelitz court architect and sculptor. In: Mecklenburg-Strelitzer Heimatblätter. 7th year (1931), issue 4, pp. 53–58.

Web links

Commons : Christian Philipp Wolff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ today: Blankensee community in the Mecklenburg Lake District
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Christian Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder, plasterer and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsen
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1820
Place of death Berlin