Constantin Philipp Georg Sartori

Constantin Philipp Georg Sartori (* 1747 in Charlottenburg ; † 1812 ) was a German sculptor and plasterer .

Stucco elements in the rococo hall of the Max-Dortu-Grundschule Potsdam

Life

Constantin Philipp Georg Sartori was tutored by his father of the same name, who was in royal Prussian service, and by his grandfather. The family lived in old Berlin , Leipziger Strasse 21.

Works

After completing his training, Sartori carried out various stucco work in the palaces of Potsdam and Sanssouci , in the late Frederician Rococo style .

In Berlin he made the sandstone figures of the gable field, statues from the life of Christ and the bas-reliefs above the main door of the German church on Friedrichsmarkt (later the Gendarmenmarkt ). He also adorned the French Cathedral on the same square in Berlin with similar sculptures . Finally, in Sartori's workshop, numerous stucco decorations were created for various private palaces and houses in Berlin and Potsdam . Some of his work later disappeared with the destruction or demolition of the buildings, although Sartori had a reputation for being a skilled artist.

Well-known works by Constantin Philipp Georg Sartori are the hermitage on Potsdam's Jungfernsee in the New Garden in Potsdam and the shell grotto in the New Garden . On the Pfaueninsel he created stucco work in the neo-Gothic hall of the dairy.

He created the richly decorated stucco elements for the rococo hall of the Max-Dortu-Grundschule Potsdam. The facade of the German Cathedral on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt is adorned with sculptures from the life of Christ, which Sartori made based on models by the painter Bernhard Rode .

literature

• Georg Kaspar Nagler : Sartori, Constantin Philipp Georg . In: New general artist lexicon . Volume 15, Fleischmann, Munich 1845, p. 32.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sarto (n) i . In: Karl Neander von Petersheiden: Illustrative Tables , 1799, I, p. 97 (The name is misspelled in the address book (Sartoni) and the job is stucco worker. He had not completed a "proper" apprenticeship.).
2. ↑ To the dome of the Berlin Cathedral ( memento of the original from June 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 25, 2017.