Christoph Abraham Walther
Christoph Walther Abraham (* around 1625 in Dresden , † 22. August 1680 (funeral)) was a German sculptor of the Baroque .
Life
He comes from the artist family Walther and was the last child of the sculptor Sebastian Walther . Of his 13 sisters, Viktoria and Marie Sophia were married to the sculptors Zacharias Hegewald (1596–1639) and Johann Georg Kretzschmar (1612–1653), respectively . Growing up in Dresden, he learned the carving trade in the family sculptor's workshop at Terrassenstrasse 12 and worked on the family's works since his early youth.
His first major independent work was the completion of the relief of the man stand on the gallery of the (old) Frauenkirche after the death of his father in 1645. In 1648 he went on a journey and worked in Ulm for the ivory and wood carver David Heschler (around 1610 until 1667). There he met the sculptor Melichor Barthel (1625 to 1672) , who was also from Dresden . In Ulm he married the daughter of the sculptor Heinrich Wilhelm and took over the workshop after his death. Back in Dresden around 1653, his next works were the figural decoration of the Justitia fountain on the Altmarkt .
In 1655 he went hiking again and worked in Regensburg. In his wife's homeland he bought a quarry and used it for his work. There he made the niche statues for the interior of the Benedictine collegiate church in Lambach in his workshop . A little later he received the order from the Saxon Elector Johann Georg II to make a crucifix for the Dresden Elbe Bridge (later Augustus Bridge ) for 100 guilders . The work was finished in March and he brought it to Dresden himself on July 6, 1658. It was erected there after a mold had been made for a cast . It was cast by Andreas Herold in 1670 and erected in September. In 1845, on March 31st, during a strong flood , the pillar with the crucifix collapsed and it has been lost ever since.
In the years 1659 to 1660 he created the tombs for his deceased mother (1657) and his two eldest daughters in the Walther family arch on the Frauenkirchhof . In 1660 he worked for the Margrave Albrecht V of Brandenburg (-Ansbach). There followed in 1664 complicated regulations of inheritance matters in Regensburg with the help of charter from the Saxon sovereign to the Bavarian elector and the Regensburg magistrate. At the same time he sold his quarry and workshop. From 1665 he was back in Dresden. He received the civil rights of the city of Dresden at the council meeting on February 23, 1666. He worked for the Saxon court and for the Margrave Albrecht V of Brandenburg. He created sculptures , reliefs , figures, epitaphs , tombs and altars made of sandstone , granite , marble and alabaster in and around Saxony . At the age of 65 he died in Dresden and was buried in the family grave of the Frauenkirchhof.
Works (selection)
- 1649 to 1650: Figure Eirene for the Turkish fountain , Dresden
- 1645: Completion of the relief of the Mannesstand , old Frauenkirche , Dresden
- 1653: the figures and column decorations of the Justitia fountain in Dresden, Altmarkt
- 1655 to 1656: Niche figures for the Benedictine collegiate church in Lambach: Saint Andrew , Christ , Mother of God , Saint Joseph , John the Baptist and the Twelve Apostles
- 1656: Altar in the Schönfeld Church ( Schönfeld near Dresden).
- 1658: Crucifix on the Augustus Bridge (lost by flood in 1845), Dresden
- 1669: five statues above the entrance portal for the Kreuzkirche Dresden
- 1671 to 1676: two figures next to the bell chamber , plastic exterior decoration, including the two devil figures , on the tower of the Kreuzkirche Dresden
- 1676: six reliefs, pictures in angelic form, for the Dresden Kreuzkirche
- 1677: Alabaster figure for the deceased Dorothea Stubing, wife of a Dresden-based London merchant, Dreikönigskirche Dresden-Neustadt, later the palace in the Great Garden . This canvas dealer Johann Stubing had the English department store built on Altmarkt No. 10 in 1669.
- 1677: three angels for the organ front of the Dresden Kreuzkirche
literature
- Ernst Sigismund : Walther, Christoph Abraham . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 114 .
- Werner Schade : About the drawings by the Dresden sculptor Walther . In: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 29, 1967, pp. 325–334.
- Lise Lotte Möller: Some new drawings by the Dresden sculptor Christoph Abraham Walther . In: Yearbook of the Hamburger Kunstsammlungen 16, 1971, pp. 85-104.
- Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden. History of his buildings . 14th edition. Seemann, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-86502-000-3 , p. 480.
- Walter Hentschel : Dresden sculptors of the 16th and 17th centuries, Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1966, pp. 98–101, 158–159.
- Paul Schumann : Dresden. (= Famous art places 46). Seemann, Leipzig 1909, p. 86 f. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ; full text on lexikus.de ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augustus Bridge . In: Dresden and Saxony. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; accessed on October 15, 2014 .
- ^ Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones und Epitaphia . Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 172 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
- ↑ Schönfeld Church. In: Dresden districts. Retrieved October 15, 2014 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Walther, Christoph Abraham |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German baroque sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1625 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
DATE OF DEATH | 22nd August 1680 |
Place of death | Dresden |