Jacob Arlet

Jacob Arlet (* before October 16, 1661 in Politz , Königgrätzer Kreis ; † December 27, 1702 in Grüssau , Duchy of Schweidnitz ) was a Cistercian monk from Bohemia who worked as a painter and engraver in Silesia .

Life

Jacob Arlet was baptized in Politz on October 16, 1661. He attended the Benedictine grammar school in Braunau and joined the Cistercian order on November 21, 1683. In 1688 he received lessons in copperplate engraving from Prokop Jaschke at the Braunau monastery . On June 4, 1689 he was ordained a priest in Neisse . It is not known where he graduated from theology.

On September 30, 1689, he began an apprenticeship with Michael Willmann in his Leubus monastery workshop . Between 1690 and 1692 he created a copper engraving portrait of Heinrichau's abbot Heinrich Kahlert . From 1692 to 1695 he worked as Willmann's assistant on the ceiling frescoes of the Grüssauer Josephskirche . Fourteen signed copper-engraved images of saints date from 1693, which he created for the Grüssau Book of Emergency Helpers , which was printed by the Glatzer publisher Andreas Frantz Pega . Between 1695 and 1697 he created an engraving depicting St. Joseph for the devotional book of the Joseph Brotherhood in Himmelwitz as well as the copper engraving depicting the Grüssauer Christ Child .

From 1696 he worked as a preacher and confessor in the Grüssauer Propstei Warmbrunn , where he also worked as a choirmaster and chef from November 15, 1698. Two years later he returned to Grüssau and taught Latin at the monastery school. He also held the office of kitchen and cellar master. He died there in an accident on December 27, 1702.

literature

• General Artist Lexicon, Vol. 5, p. 111
• Nikolaus von Lutterotti : From the unknown Grüssau . Grenzland-Verlag Rock & C. Wolfenbüttel, 1962, pp. 106 and 203