Jürgen Röttger
Jürgen Röttger (* 1550/1551 in Silesia ; † October 14, 1623 in Braunschweig ) was a German stonemason and sculptor who made the transition from Renaissance to Baroque in Braunschweig from 1619 .
Life
Jürgen Röttger became a new citizen in Braunschweig's Weichbild Neustadt on November 23, 1583 and married the widow of the sculptor Hans Seeck in the same year . This made him master of the new Röttger workshop and co-owner of the Seeck house at Beckenwerkerstraße 15. From 1616 he was councilor of the Neustadt. He had two daughters, Judith (baptized January 15, 1601) and Katharina, and two sons Jürgen († 1626) and Hans († January 3, 1627), who became an outstanding sculptor. Hans only continued the workshop for a short time after the death of his 73-year-old father, the extent to which Jürgen was involved in the workshop is not known.
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Jürgen Röttger marked his works for the first time in 1587 with the monogram GR. Röttger worked together with the sculptor Balthasar Kircher in the years 1588 to 1592 on the reconstruction of the east facade of the Braunschweig Gewandhaus on partially sculptural relief work, for example on the lions' heads and designed ashlar .
In the years 1592 to 1594 he created pictures together with the painter Florian von der Mürtel from Antwerp , such as B. in 1583 the tomb of Syndikus Johann Roßbeck († November 30, 1581) and his wife Sabina Stizing in the wooden Martini church . He created the rood screen for the Brothers Church in 1592/94, the sermon chair in 1598/99 for 350 thalers and the cover of the baptismal font in 1612. If Röttger's share in the aforementioned sculptures is not specified, Paul Jonas Meier thinks it is It is clear that the tomb of Busso von Bülow in the St. Katharinen Church in Oebisfelde was only painted by Florian von der Mürtel.
It is certain that the tombstone for Joachim I von Alvensleben († 1588) in Erxleben comes from Röttger, as well as that for Ludolf X. von Alvensleben († 1596) in the St. Andrew's Church in Hundisburg , although this was probably after the death of Ludolf's wife Bartha v. Bartensleben († 1587) was built. Röttger also created the tomb of Ludolf X. in Kalbe (Milde) and that for Valentin von Alvensleben († 1594) in the Nikolaikirche in Gardelegen . This survived the destruction of the church in 1945 and was restored to the Marienkirche . Other works outside Braunschweig include a baptismal font (1610) in St. Marien in Celle , a history tablet (1614) in the Riddagshausen monastery church and a baptismal font (around 1600) in the Petruskirche in Vorsfelde .
Röttger's work reached its climax with the redesign of the Martini church in Braunschweig with a pulpit, baptismal font and prieche . Evidently, he only received 450 thalers for this work. He receives this sum during the tipper and luffing period in the form of the so-called "bad thalers", the precious metal content of which was considerably reduced compared to the agreed contract amount. During the work on the Martini church, the Röttger workshop employed six journeymen for the pulpit and five for the pulpit cover with Prieche. Based on this experience, in the same year 1619 he signed a contract for the tomb for Jürgen von der Schulenburg († April 20, 1619) in the Katharinenkirche , which provided for a total of 2,000 thalers. It is assumed that this tomb was largely created by the sculptor Lulef Bartels in Magdeburg and is a joint effort.
Röttger's work from 1619 onwards is characterized by the fact that in Braunschweig he made the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque, from the fittings to the Baroque shell style. His son Hans Röttger probably also created the epitaph for his father, which was destroyed in 1944 and which was in the Andreaskirche .
Grave monument of Joachim I von Alvensleben, Erxleben Palace Chapel
Grave monument of Joachim I von Alvensleben with his three wives
Epitaph of Valentin von Alvensleben with his wife Anna von Veltheim
Epitaph for Valentin von Alvensleben and his family in the Marienkirche in Gardelegen
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries , p. 593, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7
- Wolfgang A. Jünke: Destroyed art in Braunschweig's churches, inner-city churches and chapels before and after 1944 , ed. v. Ev.-luth. City Church Association and Propstei Braunschweig, Harms, Groß Oesingen 1994, ISBN 3-86147-001-2
- Jürgen Röttger: A Braunschweig sculptor between Renaissance and Baroque , exhibition in the Brüdernkirche Braunschweig June 12th - September 27th 1987, published by the parish of St. Ulrici Brothers, Braunschweig 1987
- 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
- ↑ The monogram GR goes back to Georg Röttger , with whom Jürgen Röttger created the tombs of von Alvensleben in Hundisburg and Calbe and the tomb of Dr. P. Brisemann drew. See PJ Meier: Das Kunsthandwerk, p. 44 and H.-R. Jarck: Lexikon, p. 593 (see literature). It is not known what these different names mean.
- ↑ H. R. Jarck: Lexicon, p. 593 (see literature)
- ↑ P. J. Meier: Das Kunsthandwerk, p. 51 (see literature)
- ↑ P. J. Meier: Das Kunsthandwerk, pp. 57 and 59 (see literature)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Röttger, Jürgen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Röttger, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and carver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1550 or 1551 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1623 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |