Georg Saum

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Georg Saum (born April 22, 1736 in St. Peter , Black Forest , † July 29, 1790 in Strasbourg ) was a late Baroque painter in southwest Germany and Alsace .

Life

He was the ninth child in a farming family. Five years after his birth, his parents, Mathias Saum and Maria geb. Wickin, the Kreuzhof (formerly Rothibehof) in St. Peter. It is located on the road from St. Peter to St. Märgen and is still owned by the family today (2010). Georg became an orphan at the age of 12. In 1754 the abbot Philipp Jakob Steyrer of the St. Peter monastery in the Black Forest arranged for him an apprenticeship with the Constance- based painter Franz Ludwig Herrmann , who was then working in the monastery. Hermann committed himself to accepting and accepting the "Wayßen, and Hießigen Underthanen georg Saumen ... From then ahn to a Mahler Jung, and the same within 3 years in the art of drawing, both flat and fresco, knowing how to grind to his best, and certain Zu Under." judge". After three years of apprenticeship in Constance, Saum wandered through Bavaria and Austria to Moravia , from where Steyrer called him to St. Peter in 1762 to decorate the newly built Maria Lindenberg pilgrimage chapel with ceiling paintings . Immediately afterwards he painted five ceiling paintings in the newly built convent staircase in the east wing of the monastery.

In 1764 he left St. Peter and moved to Strasbourg. There he was recognized as a master by the Zunft zur Steltz in 1767 . In the same year he became a citizen of Strasbourg and married Maria Caecilia Waggin from Strasbourg. From Strasbourg he worked together with Simon Göser in Munzingen Castle and the St. Stephan Church in Munzingen. He enjoyed a high reputation in Strasbourg, and repeatedly had apprentices and journeymen. In 1769 he was elected to the Steltz guild court . In 1775 he gave his brother Michael a picture of Christ on the cross at the Kreuzhof , which was kept there as a "family item" until at least 2000. Until his last days he was in contact with his siblings in the Black Forest. His death was recorded in the Stegen -Eschbach and St. Peter books of the dead.

plant

Saums paintings in the Lindenberg Chapel were destroyed when the chapel had to be demolished in 1787. In Munzingen Castle, the wall paintings of the Yellow Salon have not survived, but have been heavily restored by Hem's hand, four over- portals may still be preserved . For the Munzingen parish church he painted the stoning of St. Stephen on the left side altar. A crucifixion painting from 1764 is in the vicarage Wettelbrunn, city of Staufen im Breisgau .

His main work is located in the convent staircase of the St. Peter monastery. “The three-armed, opposing staircase is built into a spacious staircase, which is subtly interpreted and designed by Gigl's stucco and Saum's paintings.” “Embedded in a network of curled rocaille motifs, the pictures painted by Georg Saum in 1763 shine on the viewer down. ” Jacob's dream of the ladder to heaven is depicted in the main field . "Mysterious light breaks out of the dark clouds and shines over the sleeper." That is why four smaller images of human death are grouped in blue-gray shades of gray: The bone man sticks an arrow in the chest of the dying man; the Archangel Michael with the blessed on his right hand and the damned on his left; Hell, where tongues of fire shoot up from a cauldron; the sky with St. Peter with two crossed keys and St. Ursula with two crossed arrows.

  • Altarpieces in Sölden

  • Benedict and Scholastica

  • Ulrich

  • Fides and Candida

  • Barbara

In 1763, Steyrer had the leaves of the two side altars painted by Saum in the church of St. Fides and Markus in Sölden near Freiburg im Breisgau , which formerly belonged to St. Peter's monastery . They show Benedikt von Nursia and his sister Scholastika on the left , above St. Ulrich von Zell , on the right St. Fides with a grate and the catacomb saint Candida with a sword, above St. Barbara . The carvings on the altars are by Matthias Faller . The ceiling paintings of the church were created by Saums teacher Franz Ludwig Hermann.

Nothing is known about Saums works for Alsace.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Graf von Kageneck: Freiburg-Munzingen. Parish church, Erentrudis chapel, castle (= Little Art Guide. 1126). Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1978, p. 8. 12.
  2. ↑ Hans-Martin Gubler: The Vorarlberg baroque master builder Peter Thumb. Sigmaringen, Thorbecke Verlag 1972, ISBN 3-7995-5016-X , p. 42.
  3. ^ Hermann Brommer: Space and Time in the Understanding of the Baroque Period. In: Hans-Otto Mühleisen (Ed.): The legacy of the abbey. 900 years of St. Peter in the Black Forest. Badenia Verlag Karlsruhe 1993, ISBN 3-7617-0297-3 , pp. 107-126.
  4. ^ Manfred Hermann : Catholic parish church of St. Fides and Markus Sölden. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Hem, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the late baroque
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Peter , Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1790
Place of death Strasbourg