Claude Lamoureux

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Allegorical statues on the pedestal of the equestrian statue of King Christian V on Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen

Claude Lamoureux (* around 1650 ; † after 1699 ) was a French-born sculptor who worked in Sweden and Copenhagen ( Denmark ). He is best known for helping his brother create the first equestrian statue in Northern Europe.

life and work

The date and place of birth of Claude Lamoureux are unknown. He was the younger brother of the sculptor Abraham César Lamoureux , and he had a younger sister Magdalene, 1660 in Hamburg ( Germany was born).

He probably came to Sweden with his stepfather Jean Baptist Dieussart , who entered the service of the Swedish Chancellor Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie in 1664 . Like his brother, Lamoureux was likely an apprentice or assistant to his stepfather.

In 1681 Lamoureux, his siblings and their families (his brother's family and his sister's husband, the Swedish sculptor and stonemason Johann Gustav Stockenberg ) moved to Copenhagen in Denmark, where his brother Abraham-César worked as court sculptor for King Christian V. had been employed by Denmark .

Around 1685 Lamoureux married Anne Marie Pedersdatter Stephensen from Copenhagen, who bore him four children between 1686 and 1698. From 1686 he was employed as his brother's assistant with an annual salary of 100 Danish Rigsdalers. After the death of his brother in April 1692 (Abraham César was buried in the Trinity Church in Copenhagen on April 27, 1692 ), he finished his brother's work in 1695 and added four allegorical statues to the pedestal of the equestrian statue of Christian V.

In 1699 Lamoureux resigned from the service of the Danish court and received travel expenses for his departure from Denmark. His whereabouts are unknown, as is the date and place of his death.

Famous works

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Minerva and Heracles
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Artemis and Alexander the Great

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Birgitte Bøggild Johannsen: Claude Lamoureux. In: Kunstindeks Danmark : Weilbach's artist dictionary . Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen , Copenhagen, accessed on June 28, 2019 (Danish).
  2. ↑ a b Bertil Waldén: Nicolaes Millich and Hans Krets: Studier i den Karolinska baroque sculptural construction . Saxon & Lindströms förlag, Stockholm 1942 (Swedish, limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ^ A b c d e Marius Audin: Histoire d'un tailleur d'images: François Lamoureux . A. Rey, Lyon 1912, p. 358-385 (French, bnf.fr ).
  4. ↑ Emil Marquard: Fra arkiv og museum (= Østifternes historisk-topografiske Selskab [Ed.]: Series 2 ). Arnold Busck, Copenhagen 1925, Abraham Cæsar Lamoureux (Danish, limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ↑ Bertil Waldén: Jean Baptista Dieussart . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon . 1945 (Swedish, riksarkivet.se ).
  6. ↑ August Hahr: Konst och konstnärer vid Magnus Gabriel de La Gardies hof: bidrag till den svenska konstforskningen . In: Skrifter utgivna av Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Uppsala . tape IX . Akademiska Bokhandeln, Uppsala 1905 (Swedish, archive.org ).
  7. ^ Henrik Cornell: Den svenska konstens historia . Aldus / Bonnier, Stockholm 1966 (Swedish).
  8. ^ Abraham César Lamoureux. In: Kunstindeks Danmark : Weilbach's artist dictionary . Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen , Copenhagen, accessed on June 28, 2019 (Danish).
  9. ^ A b Frederik Julius Meier: l'Amoureux Abraham César . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 1 : Aaberg – Beaumelle . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1887, p. 196 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  10. ↑ Abraham-César Lamoureux . In: Vagn Poulsen; Erik Lassen; Jan Danielsen (Ed.): Dansk art history: Billedkunst og skulptur . tape 2 . Politics Forlag, Copenhagen 1973, p. 311 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Lamoureux, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-born sculptor in Sweden and Denmark
DATE OF BIRTH around 1650
DATE OF DEATH after 1699