Heinrich Josef Splieth
Heinrich Josef Splieth (born August 17, 1842 in Frauenburg in Warmia ; † February 2, 1894 in Elbing , Elbing district ) was a German wood and picture carver and artisan .
Life
Splieth was the son of a shoemaker. He attended the Königsberg Art Academy , where he received three silver medals for his works of art. One of them is "the great silver medal for craftsmen" 1864 (see web links). Then he was drawn out into the world.
Even before Königsberg he went to Berlin via Elbing , where in 1863 at the age of 21 he received a prize from the Prussian Academy of the Arts for a work of art. Two more prizes in Königsberg followed. Then he went to Rome on the waltz . On the return journey he was honored with a medal in Vienna in 1869 . During the long hike he also studied and worked in Munich and Prague . In Elbing he now settled down as a wood carver. He ran a wood carving workshop on Spieringstrasse with 20 journeymen and apprentices.
“In total he created 60 altars and 52 pulpits ” in East Prussia and beyond, as well as confessionals , church stalls and choir pews, as well as baptismal fonts and crucifixes . It has been handed down: Heinrich Splieth designed the pulpit of the Church of the Three Kings in Elbing. In the Frauenburg Cathedral you can still see his carvings on the altar and choir stalls . From him come the tabernacle, altar balustrade, pulpit and side altars in the Catholic. Church to Riesenburg / Prabuty (see web links). He created busts of both Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius and his wife Maria Splieth, b. Walk; but these remain lost.
Several of his works have been preserved in the Diocese of Warmia, including the Rosary Altar of Our Lady and the main altar in the Church of St. Jacob in Allenstein (1872), the pulpit, the confessionals and the baptismal fonts in limestone , the side altars in Tilsit , the Tabernacle in Christburg , the St. Joseph, Holy Cross, St. Catherine and Mother of God altars in Guttstadt and three altars to the church in Tiegenhof . Side altars in Tilsit and a main altar in the municipality of Robkojen are no longer preserved .
For the castle church in Marienburg Heinrich Josef Splieth u. a. the large crucifix on the north wall, he created the pulpit for the town church of St. John there. The main altar in the church in Ploskinia (German: Plaßwich), the pulpits in the St. Nikolaikirche and in the church of the Three Kings in Elblag (German: Elbing) come from him. Heinrich Josef Splieth created both the architectural structures of retables and the figures inside. He preferred Gothic elements. He is also considered to be the creator of the new stone elements in the town house on Masztowa Street. 4 in Elblag.
In 1875 he received the Medal of Honor for Progress in Business in Berlin. The tireless worker, who never relaxed, died at the age of 51 of a heart attack at a friend's funeral. This was also the end of the wood carving workshop in Elbing, because nobody had the necessary specialist knowledge to continue the business with 20 journeymen and apprentices. "Heinrich Splieth was considered the authoritative artist in the field of church carving at the time". The adjacent mirror with an oak frame is the only known individual work of art that has been preserved.
His son Heinrich Splieth (1877–1929) became a well-known sculptor.
literature
- Splieth, Heinrich . 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. 396 .
- Prof. Dr. A. Ulbrich: Art history of East Prussia from the time of the order to the present. P. 261 f. Koenigsberg, 1932.
- Rudolf Meyer-Bremen: Artist Lexicon East Prussia and West Prussia 1800–1945. 164. Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 2012.
- Royal Prussian State Gazette. No. 187, 1864, large silver medal.
Web links
- Bavarian State Library: Royal Prussian State Gazette. (Silver medal in Königsberg, opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de )
- studiaelblaskie.pl (PDF, p. 86 f. in German, works in the Catholic church in Riesenburg / Prabuty)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The Ostpreußenblatt. March 18, 1989 ( archiv.preussische-allgemeine.de PDF; 14.2 MB).
- ^ Message from Prof. Andrzej Kopiczko, head of the Archdiocesan Archives in Olsztyn, February 2015.
- ↑ Information from Dr. Barbara Pospieszna, curator for research and collections at the Marienburg Castle Museum, April 2015, after viewing old invoices from the Marienburg archive
- ↑ Andrzeja Grotha (ed.): Historia Elblaga. Volume III, Part 2: 1851-1920. Wydawnictwo "Marpress", Danzig 2001, ISBN 978-83-8729196-9 , p. 303.
- ^ Splieth, Heinrich (1877–1929). Kulturportal West – Ost, 1979, accessed on February 13, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Splieth, Heinrich Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wood and picture carvers as well as artisans |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 17, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frauenburg , Warmia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1894 |
| Place of death | Elbing , district of Elbing |