Jakob Freese

Pulpit and high altar of the St. Jakobi Church in Greifswald

Altar of the Stralsund Heilgeistkirche

Jakob Freese , also: Friese , (* 1720 in Stralsund , Swedish-Pomerania ; † January 28, 1778 ibid) was a Rococo wood sculptor from Stralsund .

biography

Jakob Freese was presumably the son of Jacob Freese (the elder), who in 1707 is named as the owner of a house on the corner of Langenstrasse and Breite Querstrasse (today part of Jacobiturmstrasse) in a preserved building file. He was baptized on March 10, 1720 in the Church of St. Nikolai as the son of the pound servant and servant Jacob Freese.

On November 2, 1748, Jakob Freese gained citizenship as a sculptor and stone carver and opened his workshop in Stralsund. Numerous sacred furnishings come from his workshop.

Offspring

In the baptismal register of St. Jakobi there are descendants from 1750. Christoph Nathanael Freese (* 1759, † 1836) was baptized on September 21, 1759 and after the death of his father took over his workshop as a carpenter and carver. Secure or ascribed works are the simple, handcrafted altar from 1760/70 in the Rakow church , the pulpit from 1784 in Gustow , the organ front with rocaille ornamentation in the parish church of St. Jacobi zu Gingst as well as a relief dated around 1800 depicting Saint George on a residential building in Rambin . He worked on the high altar and organ front of the St. Jakobikirche in Stralsund, but did not create anything figurative there.

Works

• plastic jewelry in the library hall of Greifswald University (today aula)
• Pulpit and high altar of the St. Jakobi Church in Greifswald
• Sculptures of the not preserved altarpiece in the church in Samtens
• Baptism in the village church of Gustow
• 1753–1755: Organ prospectus of the Greifswald St. Marienkirche (together with the Greifswald painter Joachim Albrecht Holtzerlandt)
• 1755: Pulpit of the St. Marien Church in Poseritz
• 1757/1758: Figures from a broken altar retable (stolen on September 21, 2019) and confessional in the Prohn village church
• 1763–1764: Confessional in the village church Groß Mohrdorf (together with the Stralsund painter Friedrich Christian Stütze)
• 1770–1775: Altarpiece in the Heilgeistkirche Stralsund
• 1772: wooden altarpiece with paintings and figures in the Reinkenhagen church
• 1775: Pulpit in the St. Mary's Church in Bergen on Rügen
• 1786–1788: Altarpiece in the St. Jakobi Church in Stralsund (posthumously, from his workshop)
• A baptismal angel from the village church in Waase on Ummanz , which was last in the collection of the Stralsund Museum, is missing.

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p.

Web links

• A great sculptor from Stralsund In: Ostsee-Zeitung from June 28, 2019.
• Photo exhibitions on two Stralsund baroque sculptors on Dorfkirchen-in-Not.de

Film contribution to art theft in Prohn

• Art theft: Church in Prohn robbed , NDR -Nordmagazin from October 7, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011.
2. ↑ Diploma restorer Dr. Gabriele Schwartz: artist database .
3. ↑ Diploma restorer Dr. Gabriele Schwartz: artist database .
4. ↑ Greifswald. University (1747/50, Andreas Mayer). Former library room (assembly hall) with sculptural jewelry by Jakob Freese. In: Deutsche Fotothek .
5. ↑ Diploma restorer Dr. Gabriele Schwartz: artist database .
6. ↑ Diploma restorer Dr. Gabriele Schwartz: artist database .
7. ↑ Theft of gilded sculptures in Prohn: more than 100,000 euros damage. Retrieved October 8, 2091 . 
8. ↑ Diploma restorer Dr. Gabriele Schwartz: artist database .
9. ↑ Photo exhibitions on two Stralsund baroque sculptors on: Dorfkirchen-in-Not.de from 2017.