Georg Wolschke

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Georg Wolschke (* around 1650 , † after 1717 ) was a German cabinet maker from Calau . He created altarpieces , pulpits and baptismal angels in churches in Niederlausitz.

life and work

Altar in large leash, setting probably by Georg Wolschke

No further news has been received about his life.

plant

Characteristic are mostly two angels with cross and staff as the torture instruments of Christ on altar pieces, also on organ prospectus

  • Calau town church, organ prospectus, 1676, burned
  • Sallgast Church, altarpiece, 1678
  • Krieschow Church , altarpiece and pulpit, 1680
  • Church Werben , altar and baptismal angel, 1692, burned in 1945
  • Spreewitz Church, altar, 1693 (presumed)
  • Uckro church , altar and pulpit, around 1700
  • Gollmitz Church, altar and pulpit, 1704
  • Friedersdorf Church (Sonnewalde), 1716, altarpiece
  • Groß Oßnig Church, Baptismal Angel, 1717 (presumed according to style)
  • Church Groß Leine , altarpiece (presumed)
  • Papitz Church, altarpiece (presumed)
  • Zerkwitz church, altar, only the two angels have been preserved (presumed according to style)
  • Niebendorf church, altar (presumed)
  • Laasow church, baptismal angel (presumed)
  • Cahnsdorf Church, Taufengel (presumed)

progeny

His son Gottfried Wolschke continued the activity and created the altar and pulpit in Groß Jehser, 1724.

literature

  • Ewa Kruppa: Georg Wolschke - Study for a Niederlausitzer workshop. In: Marina Flügge, Mechthild Noll-Minor, Sabine Stachat, Werner Ziems (Red.): Taufengel in Brandenburg. An inventory (= workbooks of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. 14). Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2006, ISBN 3-86568-079-8 . Pp. 50-55.
  • Werner Ziems: Baptism angel in Lower Lusatia . In: Annegret Gehrmann, Dirk Schumann (ed.): Village churches in Niederlausitz . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011. pp. 341-358, pp. 342-346.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Ziems: Baptism angel in Niederlausitz . In: Annegret Gehrmann, Dirk Schumann (ed.): Village churches in Niederlausitz . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011. pp. 341–358, here pp. 342f.
  2. ^ Rudolf Bönisch: Albrecht Dürer and the altar in Niebendorf. In: Open Churches. 2015. pp. 87-89. PDF
personal data
SURNAME Wolschke, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabinet maker
DATE OF BIRTH around 1650
DATE OF DEATH after 1717