Gebhard Jürgen Titge

Gebhard Jürgen Titge , also Gebhard Georg T. (* around 1590, probably in Rotenburg (Wümme) ; † probably 1663 in Ratzeburg ) was a German baroque sculptor .

Titge's life has only been handed down with gaps. It has been assumed that he learned from Ludwig Münstermann in Bremen , but this has recently been questioned.

Presumably coming from Boizenburg , he can be traced back to Ratzeburg in the mid-1620s, where he created a number of works.

In his work he processes suggestions from Dresden (especially Giovanni Maria Nosseni ) and combines them with a freer ornament and figure style, which he probably got to know from master books, in a characteristic way that suggests the cartilage style without leaving too much space for ornament to give.

Works

Altar in Otterndorf

• Ratzeburg Cathedral :
  • High altar from 1629 (today in the south transept)
  • Front of the Lauenburg Choir, 1637
  • Apostles border frame, 1634
  • Chapter chairs, 1648 (not preserved)
  • Epitaph for Elizabeth v. Parkentin († 1624)
  • Epitaph for Domdechant Hartwich von Bülow , 1641
  • Epitaph for Nicolaus Peträus , 1644
  • Epitaph for Duke August von Sachsen-Lauenburg , 1649

• Carlow village church : Votive tablets of Hartwich v. Bülow, 1637
• Schlagsdorf village church : Altar, 1641
• St. Laurentius in Ziethen : Altar, 1655 (attribution uncertain)
• Otterndorf : Altar, 1664 (attribution uncertain)

literature

• Anne-Dore Ketelsen-Volkhardt: Schleswig-Holstein epitaphs of the 16th and 17th centuries. Neumünster: Karl Wachholtz, 1989 (Studies on Schleswig-Holstein Art History, Vol. 15), pp. 148–169 (with further references)

Web links

Commons : Gebhard Jürgen Titge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about Gebhard Jürgen Titge in the state bibliography MV