High altar of the Steindammer Church

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Königsberg, Steindammer Church, altar with paintings by Anton Möller

The high altar of the Steindammer Church in Königsberg is a triptych by Anton Möller : Last Judgment , Resurrection and Fall of Hell , created between 1585 and 1587. The high altar was relocated to the Schönbruch Church in 1943, but was picked up in 1944 with an unknown destination and has since been considered lost .

description

architecture

The altarpiece showed the inscription 1670 in its entablature. Two Corinthian columns decorated at the bottom carried the cranked entablature. On the second floor there was a medallion oil painting between two angels in wood carving: An angel separates the good and the bad . The coronation was the figure of Jesus carved in wood.

Paintings by Anton Möller

The paintings were placed in the frame in 1670, but were already on the altar in 1640. The Königsberg painter created the oil painting Last Supper for the Steindammer Church , which could be seen in the predella of the altarpiece. Möller made the Last Judgment as the middle picture of the altar . The oil painting Heaven was on the left wing and the oil painting Hell was on the right wing . On the back there were also Möller's paintings with a crucifixion scene in the middle, flanked by the Works of Mercy, painted gray on gray. On the back of the altar, six paintings depict the six works of mercy.

On the back of the left altar wing it said:

Hinc vos justa manēt coelestis praēīa regni. Math. 25.
ut Christ 'redijt superas rediviv' in auras
e tumulis surget sic caro nostra suis.
Has epVLas reVernter have sI tanta rIgorIs
In reprobos Sontes IVDICIs έργα tIMes.

On the back of the right wing of the altar it said:

Tristis ut esurij me dextera vestra cibavit
Cumq 'siti premerer mihi pocula larga dedistis
Hospes erā tecto me suscepistis amico
Nudus ubi algerem vos me texistis amictu:
aeger eram morbo michi succurristi in ipso:
cumq 'forem captus me consolando levastis.

reception

Karl Faber writes in his work The Capital and Residence City of Königsberg in Prussia : "In the altar is a painting made in the seventeenth century by a Gdańsk painter Anton Möller depicting the Last Judgment, to which a significant value is attached."

Ernst Gall describes the altar with Georg Dehio in the Handbook of German Art Monuments . According to Georg Dehio and Ernst Gall, the altar dates from 1670. According to Dehio and Gall, the paintings are older than the carving from 1670.

literature

  • Adolf Boetticher (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the province of East Prussia. On behalf of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament . Booklet VII. The architectural and art monuments in Königsberg. Bernhardt Teichert, Königsberg 1897, OCLC 312871065 .
  • Karl Faber: The capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. The strangest thing in history. Description and chronicle of the city . Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg 1840, OCLC 15210624 . reissued in 1971
  • Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt: Königsberg sculptures and their masters 1255-1945 . Holzner, Würzburg 1970, OCLC 4261883 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Gause: The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. 2nd volume. From the foundation of the city to the last elector . Böhlau, Cologne / Graz 1965, OCLC 3084567 , p. 416 .
  2. ^ Mühlpfordt, p. 229.
  3. ↑ a b c cf. Boetticher, p. 231.
  4. ↑ Anatolij Bachtin, Gerhard Doliesen: Forgotten culture. Churches in North East Prussia. Husum KG, Husum 1998, p. 147.
  5. ↑ a b Faber, p. 133.
  6. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Ernst Gall; Bernhard Schmid: Handbook of German art monuments. [7], Teutonic Order Prussia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich; Berlin 1952, OCLC 878777190 . , P. 386.