Heinrich Charrasky

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Hercules statue in Heidelberg
The Boeotian Atalante

Heinrich Charrasky , also Heinrich Charasky (* 1656 in Komorn ; † 1710 ) was a sculptor in the Electoral Palatinate .

As a Protestant, Charrasky was persecuted and fled Hungary in 1673 . He settled in Heidelberg around 1690 and temporarily fled to Wimpfen during the War of the Palatinate Succession . As a sculptor he was appointed to the service of Elector Johann Wilhelm in 1692 , for whom he initially worked in the Bergisch-Jülischen part of the country, in 1707 at Bensberg Castle . In 1702 he was accepted into the Heidelberg citizenship. In 1710 he was commissioned to design the electoral coat of arms on Heidelberg City Hall. Charrasky worked as a sculptor, builder and construction scribe.

His statues at the Hercules Fountain and at the House of the Giant have been preserved in Heidelberg . He created the stately coat of arms of the Electoral Palatinate on the town hall . As a master builder, he was involved in the not preserved Heidelberg Carmelite Church. In Mannheim he was called in as an expert for the construction of the old town hall and he created the Justitia figure above the entrance. The Boeotian and Arcadian Atalante (now gold-plated) in the Schwetzingen palace gardens can also be attributed to him. He also worked in Neidenstein . Stylistically, Charasky's works are dependent on the sculptor Gabriel de Grupello , who works in Düsseldorf .

In 1969 a fragment of Charrasky's grave slab, on which his coat of arms can be seen, was found and placed at St. Peter's Church in Heidelberg.

literature

  • Harald Drös: Heidelberg coat of arms book . Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 3-924973-44-X , p. 255.
  • Hans Huth: The art monuments of the city district of Mannheim. Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00556-0 , pp. 470/473.
  • Udo Kultermann: The sculptor Heinrich Charasky , in: Schwetzinger Zeitung July 9, 1955.
  • Karl Lohmeyer: The Masters of the Heidelberg Jesuit Church , in: New Archive for the History of the City of Heidelberg, 11th Vol. 1924, pp. 153–159

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Charrasky  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Udo Kultermann: Gabriel Grupello . Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1968, pp. 181–182.
  2. ^ Richard Klapheck : The architecture on the Lower Rhine . Düsseldorf 1916, p. 39.
  3. ↑ With so many treasures, the museum is tight in: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung March 25, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Charrasky, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charasky, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1656
PLACE OF BIRTH Komorn , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1710