Christoph Walther II

Christoph Walther (born January 25, 1534 in Breslau , † November 27, 1584 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor . To distinguish it from other artists of the same name, such as Christoph Walther I (sculptor, 1493 to 1546), Christoph Walther III (painter, 1550 to 1592) and Christoph Walther IV (sculptor, 1572 to 1626), he was named Christoph Walther II or Christoph Walther II. Designated.

Life

Christoph Walther II comes from a bourgeois artist family , he was the son of Andreas Walther I , brother of Andreas Walther II and father of Andreas Walther III , Christoph Walther IV , Michael Walther and Sebastian Walther . He spent his childhood in Dresden, where he already worked as a child in his parents' sculpture workshop. Later he went on a journey , including to Vienna . Around 1558 he settled in Dresden. In 1562, at the council meeting on November 11th, he received the citizenship of the city of Dresden. The Saxon Elector August commissioned him and his cousin Hans Walther II to explore marble quarries in Saxony . In the Ore Mountains , near Schwarzenberg , they discovered the marble deposits there. In 1574 he was a founding member of the Dresden painters' guild (artists). In addition to sculptures, he primarily designed altars and epitaphs in and around Saxony.

On behalf of the elector, he went on a study trip to Karlstein in Bohemia in 1583 to visit the marble quarries there; the result of his investigation seems to have been unsatisfactory. Walther died in November of the following year and was buried in the Frauenkirchhof in Schwibbogengrab 69.

Works (selection)

Epitaph Dehn-Rotfelser

• 1561: Epitaph for building manager Hans von Dehn-Rothfelser , originally Frauenkirchhof , now the Ascension Church in Dresden-Leuben
• 1564: Altar, donated by Wolf von Schönburg and wife Anna, b. Schenk , City Church Penig
• 1566: Epitaph for Hugo von Schönburg in the town church of Waldenburg . At 2.95 m wide and 6.58 m high, it was the most important tomb in Saxony to date.
• 1573 and 1575: epitaph for Margarethe Pflugk, b. von Schleinitz and her husband Hans Pflugk church in Strehla
• 1576: Sandstone baptismal font for the Zabeltitz church near Großenhain
• 1579: Sandstone epitaph for Anna von Whese , Stadtkirche Stolpen , together with Andreas Walther II .
• 1580 and 1582: Sandstone epitaph for Nickel Pflugk, Anna Pflugk and Elisabeth Pflugk , Zabeltitz Church near Großenhain
• 1580: Epitaph of the court organist Christoph Walther III , Frauenkirchhof in Dresden
• 1580: Epitaph of Hans Georg von Schönfeld on Markersdorf , church Benešov nad Ploučnicí in northern Bohemia
• 1583: Positive , carved altar-like lower part, upper part decorated with colored stones for the Dresden Palace
• 1584: Sandstone epitaph for the court marshal Hans Georg v. Krosigk and sandstone altar for the old Dresdner Frauenkirche , later Anne Church , in the 18th century in the Friedrichstädter Church added
• 1584: Larger than life sandstone figure of the knight Dutschmann with the city coat of arms on the shield, fountain figure on the main market in Bautzen
• 1584: Sandstone epitaph for Friedemann von Selmenitz in the town church of Delitzsch
• 1584: Cemetery portal with figure and coat of arms reliefs, Glauchau
• 1584: Andrew's fountain made of sandstone on the market in Kamenz
• Epitaphs in Neustadt in Sachsen , today in the St. Jacobi Church erected

literature

• Ernst Sigismund : Walther, Christoph II . 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. 112-113 .
• Handbook of German Art Monuments - Dresden . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03110-3 , pp. 107, 272, 281 and 284.
• Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden: history of its buildings. ISBN 3-86502-000-3 , p. 480.
• Walter Hentschel : Dresden sculptor of the 16th and 17th centuries. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1966, pp. 22, 26, 39, 45, 47, 49, 50, 52 to 60, 62, 65, 93, 103, 120, 121, 124 to 127, 129 to 133, 135, 139 and 149.

Remarks

1. ^ Hermann Arthur Lier :  Walther, artist family . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 92-95, here: 94 below.
2. ^ Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones und Epitaphia . Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 2, 171 ( online in Google Book Search).