Clemens Lipper

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Grave column for Clemens Lipper at the Johannisfriedhof in Osnabrück

Clemens Lipper (born September 4, 1742 in Münster , † May 25, 1813 in Osnabrück ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman and architect of classicism .

He created a number of buildings in Osnabrück and other places in Lower Saxony from the second half of the 18th century and the first two decades of the 19th century.

Life

Clemens Lipper was the younger brother of the architect Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper (1733–1800), who completed the construction of the Prince-Bishop's Palace in Münster as the successor to Johann Conrad Schlaun . Clemens Lipper was the son of Johann Bernhard Lipper, rent master of the Meppen office , and his wife Hermine Pictorius. Lipper's grandfather Gottfried Laurenz Pictorius was also an important architect. The moated castle Nordkirchen comes from him .

Like his brother, Clemens Lipper received a theological training. In Rome he attended the Collegium Germanicum from 1761 to 1768 . In 1768 he became a canon of the collegiate monastery St. Johann in Osnabrück, where he built a monastery curia in 1791, which no longer exists. His coat of arms, which was on the building, is preserved in the cultural history museum in Osnabrück.

As an architect, Lipper was self-taught . In Haselünne he built the Burgmannshof for his parents, a single-storey building with a mansard roof and eleven axes. The building was destroyed in the Haselünne town fire in 1849. His design has been handed down from the garden side of the courtyard.

For the construction of the Episcopal Chancellery in Osnabrück he made a design, which was not implemented. The office was finally built by the Hanoverian master builder Franz Schaedler (1733–1796). Lipper put in contact with the sculptor Johann Schedele and the master stone carver Brouchard, who were involved in the construction and both came from Münster. Lipper himself made a design for the altar of the office, which the sculptor and painter Goswin Conrad Meyer implemented.

He worked as an appraiser in the Osnabrück Cathedral of St. Peter . He examined models of the Courtain organ and for the Holy Sepulcher of the cathedral.

One of the descendants of the Pictorius / Lipper family who worked as architects was August Reinking (1776–1819), who built the Arenbergische Rentei (today's city museum) in Meppen .

Lipper was buried in the Johannisfriedhof in Osnabrück .

literature

  • Hans Galen, Helmut Ottenjann (Hrsg.): Westphalia in Lower Saxony. Museumsdorf Cloppenburg, Cloppenburg 1993, ISBN

3-923675-37-2.