Conrad Max Suessner

Church of the Cross in Prague, on the far left the statue of St. Katharina by Conrad Max Sussner

Viktoria on the Türkenbrunnen in Dresden

Conrad Max Süßner (born May 12, 1652 in Schlackenwerth ; † after 1696 ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Conrad Max Süßner was born as the son of Paulus Süßner and his wife Anna Christina in Schlackenwerth. He was the brother of Jeremias Sussner . He probably received his training as a sculptor from Johan Heinrich Böhme in Schneeberg . From 1679/80 he worked in Dresden together with his brother as a sculptor for the Electoral Saxon court.

Together with his brother and the sculptor Matthäus Jäckel he created a total of ten sandstone statues for the Church of the Cross in Prague in 1689/90 . In 1690 he was appointed court sculptor at the Dresden court.

Works (selection)

1679–83: (together with his brother) 12 busts of the emperors and city-side gable of the palace in the Great Garden , Dresden

around 1682 and later: (together with his brother) figural decoration of the courtyard portals of the Dresden Residenzschloss

1683: Turks or Peace Fountain , sandstone figure of the goddess of victory Victoria with flag and laurel wreath, Dresden

1688–1690: Statues of St. Martin, George and Catherine in the Church of the Cross in Prague

1688–1690: Epitaph for Andreas von Schönberg (Supreme Commandant) in the Sophienkirche in Dresden ( sculpture collection , inventory number SAV 1027)

1696: Epitaph for Georg Dietrich von Wolframsdorf for the Johanneskirche in Mügeln , see picture [1]

Web links

Commons : Conrad Max Süßner - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Schönberg epitaph by Conrad Max Süßner at the Dresden State Art Collections

literature

Heinz Quinger : Dresden and the surrounding area. History, art and culture of the Saxon capital. DuMont Reiseverlag, 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4028-1 , ISBN 978-3-7701-4028-2 .
Fritz Löffler: The old Dresden. ISBN 978-3-86502-000-0 , ISBN 3-86502-000-3 .
Sigfried Asche: Three families of sculptors on the Elbe. Publisher RM Rohrer, 1961.
Olaf B. Rader: A short history of Dresden. Beck Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-52857-6 , ISBN 3-406-52857-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ Baptismal register Schlackenwerth 1627 - 1644, fol. 228: May 12, 1652 Parents: Paullus Sößner uxor Anna Christina. Witness: Mr. Samuel Zichner; Godparents: Georg Stichnwirth, Pfefferküchler u. Margaretha Wolff
^ Asche, Sigfried: Three families of sculptors on the Elbe , Vienna-Wiesbaden, 1961
↑ Jiří Sehnal: Život a dílo vrcholně barokních sochařů Heermannů a Süssnerů from 17th to 18th stol. v německém a českém prostředí (Life and work of the baroque sculptors Heermann and Süssner in the 17th and 18th centuries in Germany and Bohemia), diploma thesis, Charles University in Prague, 2009, with several individual documents, (Czech) (accessed June 18, 2017)
^ Online chronicle of the city of Mügeln. Retrieved October 23, 2013 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sussner, Conrad Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sussner, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1650
PLACE OF BIRTH	Slag value
DATE OF DEATH	after 1696

[1] Baptismal register Schlackenwerth 1627 - 1644, fol. 228: May 12, 1652 Parents: Paullus Sößner uxor Anna Christina. Witness: Mr. Samuel Zichner; Godparents: Georg Stichnwirth, Pfefferküchler u. Margaretha Wolff

[2] Asche, Sigfried: Three families of sculptors on the Elbe , Vienna-Wiesbaden, 1961

[3] Jiří Sehnal: Život a dílo vrcholně barokních sochařů Heermannů a Süssnerů from 17th to 18th stol. v německém a českém prostředí (Life and work of the baroque sculptors Heermann and Süssner in the 17th and 18th centuries in Germany and Bohemia), diploma thesis, Charles University in Prague, 2009, with several individual documents, (Czech) (accessed June 18, 2017)

[4] Online chronicle of the city of Mügeln. Retrieved October 23, 2013 .