Heinrich August Peters

Heinrich August Peters (* before 1754 probably in Braunschweig ; † after 1761 there) was a German stone sculptor .

Life

After his death, Heinrich August Peters took over the workshop of his father, the stone sculptor Johann Heinrich Peters in Braunschweig. In a letter in 1754, the son describes himself as the only sculptor in Braunschweig. In 1764 Heinrich August Peters had to flee Braunschweig for embezzlement, on the other hand he was further referred to as a court sculptor in a document from 1764.

plant

The sarcophagus of alabaster in the crypt of the Braunschweiger Domes for when thrush fallen on November 30, 1745, Duke Albrecht, a brother of the Brunswick Duke Charles I , whom the father had designed, was probably erected by Heinrich August Peters finished and. He created the gable and the gable field of the Ducal Chamber, which Johann Heinrich Oden had to complete after fleeing Peters. For the entrance to the district headquarters (1765) in Braunschweig, only the caryatids are ascribed to him because he had left Braunschweig . It is documented that Heinrich August Peters set up a cardboard factory in a manorial house in Braunschweig on Sandwege in 1761, from which the gilded bust of Duke Charles I comes from, which is kept in today's State Museum in Braunschweig.

literature

• Paul Jonas Meier: The sculptor's handicrafts in the city of Braunschweig since the Reformation. In: Workpieces from the museum, archive and library of the City of Braunschweig VIII., Appelhans, Braunschweig 1936.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ K. Steinacker: Braunschweiger Magazin 1921. Quoted from P. J. Meier: Das Kunsthandwerk, p. 109, (see literature)
2. ↑ P. J. Maier: Das Kunsthandwerk, p. 109 (see literature)