Gerhard Arend cell

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Gerhard Arend cell (also Gerhardt Arendt cell ; * around 1710 ; † 1761 in Vilnius , Poland-Lithuania ) was a German organ builder in Vilnius.

Life

Gerhard Arend cell worked for Georg Sigismund Caspari in Königsberg from 1732 at the latest , for whom he built an organ in Neidenburg that year . In the following years he was its most important employee (foreman).

In 1737 ,zelle married Elisabeth Gross (in) in Vilnius and built a positive for the Lutheran church. The following year he received citizenship of Vilnius. In 1741 he applied to build an organ in Soldau, for which there was still a contract with the recently deceased Caspari, but Adam Gottlob Casparini received the order as the privileged organ builder for Ducal Prussia. From 1742 to 1750 Johann Christoph Ungefug worked with him , then in 1752 in the Lutheran Church in Vilnius Friedrich Joachim Scholl (Scheel) and Nicolaus Jentzen (Jantzon). He married Zelle's daughter Anna Elisabeth the following year and succeeded him after his death in 1761.

Works (selection)

New organs by Gerhard Arend cell are known mainly in Vilnius, of which there are none any more today.

  • 1732: Neidenburg , Catholic Church, for Caspari, who had received the official commission
  • 1737: Vilnius , Lutheran Church, Positive
  • around 1740: Vilnius, St. Katharina
  • around 1740: Vilnius, St. Casimir
  • before 1741: Vilnius, Holy Spirit
  • 1751–1753: Vilnius, Lutheran Church, with Friedrich Joachim Scholl and Nicolaus Jentzen, destroyed in 1944, 1995 rebuilding of a prospect based on a historical model by Rimantas Gučas
  • 1763: Vilnius, St. Philip and Jacobus

literature

  • Girėnas Povilionis: Vėlyvojo baroko vargondirbystės menas Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje. 2013, pp. 29–32.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer: History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944. Volume II, 1. Mosengel, Caspari, Caparini. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 220f., Cf. P. 307f.
  2. ↑ Organ in the Lutheran Church of Vilnius vargonai.com (English)
  3. ^ Martin Rost: Organ baroque in Vilnius. In: Ars Organi , Volume 55. 2007. Last section
personal data
SURNAME Cell, Gerhard Arend
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cell, Gerhardt Arendt; Zell, Gerhard Arend; Cell, Gerhard Arend
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder in Lithuania
DATE OF BIRTH around 1710
DATE OF DEATH 1761
Place of death Vilnius , Poland-Lithuania