Friedrich Sustris

Friedrich Sustris (* around 1540 in Italy ; † 1600 in Munich ) was a German - Dutch painter , decorator and architect . He was the son of the Dutch artist Lambert Sustris , who worked in Italy .

Life

Little is known about Sustri's childhood. We only know more about him from the time of his apprenticeship. At first he did an apprenticeship with his father Lambert Sustris in Venice and Padua . From 1563 to 1567 he was a student and assistant to Giorgio Vasari in Florence, after living in Rome for a time around 1560 . After these years of apprenticeship he got his first assignment: Hans Fugger commissioned him to decorate and decorate the Fugger house in Venice.

Until 1573 he worked together with various assistants, including Carlo Pallago , in Augsburg on the rooms for the art collection of Hans Fugger in the rear part of the Fugger houses .

After completing this commission, he entered the service of the Bavarian duke and heir to the throne Wilhelm V as artist and art director in 1573. One of his main tasks was to lead the redesign of Trausnitz Castle over Landshut .

When he took over the government and moved to the royal seat, Wilhelm V took him to Munich in 1579 to give him the management of all important artistic projects. In 1583 he became a painter and chief builder in court service. He brought the formal language of Dutch-Italian Mannerism to Munich and thereby made a significant contribution to Munich's rise to the German art metropolis of the late Renaissance . After the Duke abdicated in 1597, Sustris was in the Duke's personal service.

In Munich, Sustris participated in the expansion of the antiquarian shop and the grotto courtyard of the Munich residence . The most important and best-known work of Sustri was created between 1583 and 1597: the Jesuit Church of St. Michael and probably the adjacent college .

Works

Grotto courtyard of the Munich Residence

Jesuit Church of St. Michael

Sustris' most important works are:

• Fugger House in Venice
• until 1573: Art cabinets in the Fugger houses in Augsburg
• around 1575–1579: Expansion of the Trausnitz residential palace above Landshut
• 1581–1586: Munich Residence (grotto courtyard and renovation of the antiquarian shop )
• 1584: Plan for the tower of the Catholic parish church St. Georg in Otterfing
• 1583–1597: Jesuit Church of St. Michael
• 1584–1586: Reconstruction of the choir and tower of the Catholic parish church of St. Jakob in Dachau

literature

• Susan Maxwell: The court art of Friedrich Sustris. Patronage in late Renaissance Bavaria. Ashgate, Farnham et al. 2011, ISBN 978-0-7546-6887-9 .
• Juliane von Åkerman: Friedrich Sustris (Suster, Sustrich, Ruster). In: Jürgen Wurst, Alexander Langheiter (Ed.): Monachia. By Carl Theodor von Piloty in the Munich City Hall. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88645-156-9 , p. 97.
• Manfred Hock: Friedrich Sustris. Munich 1953 (Munich, Univ., Diss. Of June 11, 1953).
• Joseph Eduard Wessely :  Sustris, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 195 f.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Sustris  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Friedrich Sustris. In: arch INFORM .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diemer, Dorothea; Diemer, Peter, "Sustris, Friedrich" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 25 (2013), pp. 712–714 online version
2. ↑ Dorothea Diemer: Hans Fugger's collection cabinets. In: Renate Eikelmann (ed.): The Fugger and the music. Anton Fugger on his 500th birthday. Exhibition of the municipal art collections Augsburg and the house of Fugger in the historical "Badstuben" in the Fuggerhaus on the occasion of the 500th birthday of Anton Fugger June 10, 1993 to August 8, 1993. Municipal art collections, Augsburg 1993, ISBN 3-922865-48-8 , Pp. 13-40.
3. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation - Old Academy  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.