Hans Steger (master builder)

Hans Steger , also Hans Friedrich Steger , Johann Friedrich Steger , the spelling of the family name also Steeger , Steiger , Steyer , (* around 1580; † 1635 in Torgau ) was a German builder , sculptor and stonemason and Saxon master builder.

Life

Hans Steger was a student of the Dresden- based builder Paul Buchner (also Paul I Puchner). In 1615, Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony appointed him master builder for the Dresden and Saxon palace buildings.

As a master builder from 1608 to 1610 he was involved in the renovation of the Dresden Palace . From 1606 to 1621 he worked together with Nicol Straßburger from Strehla in the reconstruction of the manor house in Stösitz near Oschatz . Together with Andreas Schwartz, Steger built the northwest wing of Hartenfels Castle in Torgau from 1619 to 1623 . He was also involved in raising the Dresden Hausmannsturm by another floor in 1623. From 1624 to 1626, as Simon Hoffmann's successor, the Wermsdorf hunting lodge was rebuilt , and in 1634 construction of the Mutzschen Palace began with his assistance . Johann Friedrich Steger died in Torgau and was buried in the everyday church (former Franciscan church). When the monastery church was rebuilt in the 18th century, however, its epitaph , dated 1635 , on which his age was 55 years, was lost.

Works

Relief from the Princely House in Dresden

• 1608: Lantern on the gatehouse of the south wing of Dresden Palace, removed in 1682
• 1609/10: High reliefs of Elector Christian II and his wife Hedwig of Denmark at the Princely House in Dresden, Elbgasse (= Schloßstraße 30), today in the Dresden City Museum
• 1616: octagonal fountain on Neumarkt in Dresden
• 1606–1621 with Nicol Straßburger from Strehla, restoration of the burned down Stösitz manor house near Oschatz
• 1619–1623 worked with Andreas Schwartz on the construction of the north-west wing of Hartenfels Castle in Torgau
• 1624 Simon Hoffmann's successor in the renovation of the Wermsdorf hunting lodge
• 1626–1636 Repair of the road bridge over the Elbe in Torgau
• 1634 management of the construction of Mutzschen Castle

literature

• Max Lewy: Hartenfels Castle near Torgau . Wasmuth, Berlin 1908, p. 110 ( digitized version ).
• Steger (Steeger, Steiger, Steyer), Hans (Johann Friedrich) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 537-538 .
• Thomas Drachenberg (ed.): Cistercian monastery and castle complex Dobrilugk . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86732-233-1 , pp. 41-42. 152ff.

Remarks

1. ^ Peter Findeisen, Heinrich Magirius: The monuments of the city of Torgau. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1976, p. 306.
2. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . Issue 21–23: City of Dresden . In commission at CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1903, p. 375 ( digitized SLUB Dresden ).
3. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . Issue 21–23: City of Dresden . In commission at CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1903, p. 416 ( digitized SLUB Dresden ).
4. ↑ The name of the artist is not found in Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . Issue 21–23: City of Dresden . In Commission on CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1903, pp 626-627 ( Digitalisat slub Dresden ), in Thieme-Becker, in Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 , p. 141 and in the Dehio manual : Saxony I. Administrative region Dresden . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , p. 193.
5. ^ Peter Findeisen, Heinrich Magirius: The monuments of the city of Torgau. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1976, p. 128, 196, 199, 208.
6. ^ Peter Findeisen, Heinrich Magirius: The monuments of the city of Torgau. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1976, p. 94.