Christoph Dehne

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Christoph Dehne , also Gustav Dehne (* 1575 ; † 1640 ), was a German stonemason and sculptor and one of the most important pioneers of the Baroque in what is now Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg .

Life

Little is known about Dehne about his family, only that he had a married daughter in 1626 and lived in Sudenburg near Magdeburg . The house on the Prälatenberg stood where a Caspar Dehne lived in a documented document in 1511. He spent his time as a journeyman with the Magdeburg master Sebastian Ertle from Überlingen before he worked independently in Magdeburg from 1608 to around 1631. Further news can be found u. a. in the Halberstadt files of May 29, 1618, where Matthias von Oppen and Joachim Johann von der Schulenburg (1561–1633), senior of the Halberstadt cathedral monastery, call him a “mercifully dear and special” master.

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Epitaph in the choir of the Ketzür village church

The epitaph (1613–1614) in the village church of Ketzür (near Brandenburg) by Heino von Broesigke (1529–1609), a manor owner and official, is documented by Dehne . The epitaph is in the choir of the church. On October 16, 1612, the work was commissioned for Heino in Magdeburg from Christoph Dehne for 1,100 thalers . As the owners of the manor in Ketzür, the Broesigkes also held the church patronage there. The epitaph was made of sandstone from Pirna , alabaster from Nordhausen and marble , and parts were gilded . It shows ten kneeling and praying figures on a plate carried by Adam and Eve in front of a main relief. There are four males on the left and six females on the right of the work. The male figures represent Heino and his sons Friedrich and Dietrich in cuirass with helmets off to prayer and the childlike Thomas. The female figures are Heino's wife Ursula Elisabeth, née von Hacke auf Karpzow, and the daughters Hyppolita, Maria, Anna, Elisabeth and Katharina . The main relief shows various biblical scenes. The vision of Ezekiel , the flagellation of Christ and Gethsemane are shown, which are flanked by figures of Moses and David . There are also representations of the apostles , statuettes of virtue and the four evangelists .

Dehne designed sculptural figures and ornaments, which he combined in the cartilage and auricle style and was the first master in provincial Saxon art to introduce pure baroque ideas into the art circle. Dehne did not label his works, but he signed contracts with "Xof".

“It is 18 feet high, 13 feet wide and 4 feet deep. On both sides of a cruzifix, life-size Heino kneels on the left, with his sons Friedrich and Dietrich, in knightly armor, their helmets next to them, and a grandson Thomas, on the right his wife Elisabeth, née. von Hacke, with five daughters, Hippolyta, who with Hans XIII. Rochow was married, and thereby a stem nut of Plessowschen line has become, Anna, Maria, Elisabeth and Catharina. The background is filled with half-bogus biblical representations, in between on a cornice the coat of arms of the family tree. The whole is crowned by the free-standing figure of the Savior , surrounded by his apostles and angels . All figures are made of white marble , with columns of black marble in between . The base is made of sandstone and is supported by Adam and Eve . There is an inscription on it with the message that Heino von Broesigke died on September 12th 1609, his age 84 years. This monument, to which he received 1000 thalers in his will. had exposed, which but 1100 Thlr. cost, was given to him by his son Dietrich in 1614. "

- Adolph Friedrich August von Rochow : News on the history of the family von Rochow and their possessions

Due to his unmistakable style, other works in Magdeburg Cathedral and the pulpit of St. Stephen's Church in Tangermünde (1618/19) are attributed to him. He created the epitaphs of canon Christian von Hopkorf († 1599) in Magdeburg Cathedral and the lawyer Kilian Stisser in Halle . The baptismal font in the village church of Tucheim as well as an epitaph and a relief made of alabaster in the church Nennhausen are said to come from Dehne.

Dehne was already working at the Baum hunting lodge near Bückeburg in 1607 . Together with the sculptors Jonas Wulff and Hans Wulff , he designed a large fireplace , the consoles of which can now be found in the niches of the stairwell. Two relief pictures were created on the chimney of the "Long Hall" , which are no longer preserved today. He also made sketches of works by the sculptor Giovanni Maria Nosseni in order to be able to produce similar works. He worked an angel for a carved picture frame by Jonas Wulff , both of which were to adorn a painting by the painter Christoph Gertner.

Work

Relief plate: Heinrich von Randow (1561–1621)
Pulpit in St. Stephen's Church in Tangermünde by Christoph Dehne

The following are attributed to his workshop:

  • 1608 Gravestone for Friedrich von Arnstedt
  • 1609 grave tablet for Salome von Randau
  • 1611 Draft of the grave tablet for Margarethe Nivendorph
  • 1612 grave plate for Anna Franzius, bears the "handwriting" of his workshop
  • 1612 grave plaque for Judith Franzius, bears the "handwriting" of his workshop
  • 1613–1614 epitaph for Heino von Broesigke ( village church Ketzür )
  • 1614–1616 epitaph for Georg von Lochow in Nennhausen
  • 1616 bronze plaque for Ludwig von Lochow
  • 1616 epitaph for Ernst von Meltzing and his wife
  • 1616 grave tablet for Dorothea von Randau
  • 1618 grave tablet for Thomas Nivendorph
  • 1619 tombstone for Magdalena von Arnstedt
  • 1620 grave tablet for the Büern siblings
  • 1621 grave tablet for Heinrich von Randau
  • 1622 Lochow gravestone
  • 1623 Gravestone for Agnes Sophia von Lochow
  • 1623 bronze plaque for Cuno von Lochow
  • 1623 epitaph for Cuno von Lochow
  • not before 1625 epitaph for Christian von Hopkorff
  • 1627 grave tablet for Albert von Beringerodt
  • 1629 tombstone for Agnes von Beringerodt
  • after 1629 grave tablet for a canon
  • 1632 epitaph for Adam von Königsmarck , St. Peter and Paul Cathedral (Brandenburg an der Havel)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments . Volume II. Northeast Germany. 1st edition. E. Wasmuth, Berlin 1906, p. 207.
  2. ^ Deneke: Magdeburg sculptors of the high renaissance and baroque. P. 111.
  3. ^ Günther Deneke : Dehne, Christoph . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 554 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Deneke: Magdeburg sculptors of the high renaissance and baroque. P. 110.
  5. ^ Deneke: Magdeburg sculptors of the high renaissance and baroque. P. 110 [original contract in the parish archive of Ketzür dated October 6, 1612].
  6. ↑ The church at Ketzür. Four-page leaflet with information on the village church of Ketzür. Accessed December 18, 2014.
  7. ^ Adolph Friedrich August von Rochow: News on the history of the lineage of those von Rochow and their possessions. Berlin 1861, p. 199.
  8. ^ A b Heiner Borggrefe: Bückeburg Castle. Courtly glamor - princely representation. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2008, ISBN 978-3-89993-656-8 , p. 21.
  9. ↑ Heiner Borggrefe: Bückeburg Castle. Courtly glamor - princely representation. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2008, ISBN 978-3-89993-656-8 , p. 23.
  10. ^ Deneke: Magdeburg sculptors of the high renaissance and baroque. P. 125.
personal data
SURNAME Dehne, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dehne, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and stonemason
DATE OF BIRTH 1575
DATE OF DEATH 1640