Gabriel Ignaz Ritter

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Notre-Dame de Guebwiller (interior view)

Gabriel Ignaz Ritter (also: Gabriel Ignace Ritter ; * July 31, 1732 in Andelsbuch ; † May 28, 1813 in Guebwiller ) was an Austro-French architect , sculptor and builder .

Life

Gabriel Ignaz Ritter was a son of the councilor Anton Ritter (1703–1778) and Barbara Thum (1706–1784). He has been working in Lure Abbey in the Vosges since 1762 at the latest . In 1764 he worked as a sculptor in Gebweiler, in 1768 as a construction manager and then as an architect to succeed the architect Louis Beuqué, who was deprived of construction management in 1768 due to serious deficiencies in the execution.

Ritter also trained Johann Peter Kaufmann . In 1781, Ritter worked as “Inspecteur des bâtiments ('édifices') publics” in southern Alsace.

He was married twice, his second marriage to Madeleine Simon. A son of Ritter succeeded in 1792 as a student of the academy professor Julien-David Le Roy (son of Julien Le Roy ) the admission as "Elève" at the " Académie royale d'architecture ". In 1792/93 Gabriel Ignaz Ritter asked for an appointment as "Architectes du Département du Haut-Rhin" for himself and his son.

Works

The works by Ritter shown here are only a selection and are therefore incomplete.

When Louis Beuqué took over as architect in 1768, Ritter made several changes to the components still to be completed on the upper floors of the Notre-Dame church in Gebweiler, which significantly changed the facade, pillar basilica in 1766/85 (tower not until 1845). 1771–1773 St. Nikolaus mountain church in Oderen . From 1772 he created the church Saint-Jean-le-Baptiste in Hirsingue (Hirsingen) and the church furnishings z. B. in Lautenbachzell and Marbach , 1775 in Gebweiler the canons houses near Notre-Dame, 1776 altar in Bruebach , 1777 two altars and two altarpieces in Soultzmatt , 1778 town hall Masevaux , 1779 in Colmar the hotel of the Abbey of Pairis (today's town hall), 1780 again in Gebweiler the equipment of Notre-Dame (together with Fidel Sporer ). 1780 chapel in Steinbrunn-le-Haut (Obersteinbrunn), 1785 church furnishings (altars) in Herrlisheim , 1787 parish church of St. Martin in Masevaux.

In Alspach Monastery he created parts of the choir stalls and the choir altars in the Rococo style .

literature

  • Jürg Davatz: The Church of Our Lady in Gebweiler. Building history-architecture-architects. A contribution to the architectural history of French early classicism. Dissertation. Zurich 1971, p. 13 ff.
  • Claudia Helbok: Important Vorarlbergers. 30 life pictures from a series (= Dornbirner Studiohefte. 2). ORF regional studio Vorarlberg, Dornbirn 1967, p. 21 f.
  • Roger Lehni: Gabriel Ignaz Ritter. In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne. Vol. 31, p. 3244 (French).
  • Sonia Pelletier-Gautier: Un texte fondamental pour l'étude du couvent d'Engelporten à Guebwiller; la description des bâtiments par GI Ritter (15 mars1791). In: Annuaire de la Société d'Histoire des Régions de Thann-Guebwiller. 16.1985 / 87 ([1987?]), Pp. 57-62, ISSN  1146-7371 .
  • Ansgar Steinhausen: The architecture of classicism in Alsace on the relationship between center and periphery in France between 1760 and 1800. Dissertation. Freiburg (Breisgau) 1999, ISBN 3-8309-1076-2 . (also in studies on art on the Upper Rhine. Munich 2002, ISSN  1617-3961 )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1765 to 1785 the architect Louis Beuqué from Besançon was to build the cathedral Notre-Dame de Guebwiller on behalf of the prince abbot.
  2. ↑ German biographical encyclopedia. (DBE online), Online Edition, Walter De Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISSN  2193-2832 .
  3. ^ Ansgar Steinhausen: The architecture of classicism in Alsace. P. 53, fn. 231.
  4. ^ Ansgar Steinhausen: The architecture of classicism in Alsace. P. 75.
  5. ↑ See: Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 14, 2007 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.patrimoine-de-france.org
  6. ↑ See also: Ansgar Steinhausen: The architecture of classicism in Alsace. P. 152.
personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Gabriel Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritter, Gabriel Ignace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Architect, builder, sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Andelsbuch
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1813
Place of death Gebweiler