Georg Sievers

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Georg Sievers

Johann Georg Wilhelm Sievers (born 1803 in Celle ; died January 14, 1887 in Berlin ) was a decorative painter and restorer . In 1853 he was appointed royal court carpenter. Sievers was a son-in-law of Karl Wanschaff , a court carpenter sponsored by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , and a close collaborator of the architect August Stüler .

Life

Georg Sievers, the original spelling of Siebers was changed to Sievers from 1834, married Friderike Wanschaff, a daughter of the royal joiner Karl Wanschaff, on August 6, 1831 in the Trinity Church in Berlin. The young couple lived in their father-in-law's house at Wilhelmstrasse 47 in Berlin from April 1834. Of course, Wanschaff took care of the furniture himself. Sievers' grandson, the art historian Johannes Sievers , reports on the furniture in the Sievers apartment, which "unmistakably bears the stamp Schinkel's invention ”(Sievers: Die Möbel, p. 52). Georg Sievers built his own house in Berlin's Dorotheenstrasse in 1848.

Georg Sievers received a lot of support from August Stüler and was used in particular to decorate the interior of the Neues Museum in Berlin. Sievers received further commissions in various castles and palaces of the royal family, in the Berlin opera and theater as well as in some ministries in Wilhelmstrasse. The painterly maintenance of Schinkel buildings in particular was an essential part of Sievers' activity. In the house of the Berlin silk manufacturer Eduard Humbert, a son of Jean Paul Humbert , he restored the famous time cycle created by Schinkel in the years 1813/1814 with the murals morning, noon, afternoon, dusk, evening and night. These were assigned to the National Gallery , which opened in 1876 .

He was an active member of the Association for the History of Berlin .

Georg Sievers died in Berlin on January 14, 1887. He was buried in the Wanschaff family's hereditary burial in the Trinity Cemetery II on Bergmannstrasse . The lattice grave system, laid out around 1840 with low, pedestal marble inscription stones has been preserved.

literature

  • Johannes Sievers: The furniture. Berlin 1950.
  • Johannes Sievers: From my life. Berlin 1966 (published as typescript).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blauert, Elke (ed.): Neues Museum: Architektur.Sammlung.Geschichte , Berlin 2009, p. 315.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 259.
personal data
SURNAME Sievers, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sievers, Johann Georg Wilhelm; Siebers, Johann Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German decorative painter and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1887
Place of death Berlin