Jan Wellem Monument (Düsseldorf)

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Jan Wellem statue in Düsseldorf City Hall

The Jan Wellem memorial in Düsseldorf City Hall was completed by the sculptor Gabriel de Grupello after 1697 / before 1708. The marble statue represents Johann Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg , called by the Lower Franconian- speaking people of Düsseldorf Jan Wellem , Elector of the Palatinate and Duke of Jülich-Berg .

description

The baroque statue was in the middle of the palace courtyard around 1738 after the Grupello pyramid had been brought to Mannheim. In 1911 Jan Wellem was only supposed to be installed in front of Jägerhof Palace, but ended up in the recently shortened garden behind the gallery building , the courtyard of the arts and crafts school . On March 12, 1941, the Jan Wellem statue was dismantled and brought to the art museum. After the Second World War, around 1960, the marble statue was placed in the hall on the first floor of the town hall. Until then, the work was erroneously attributed to the sculptor Josef Bäumgen (1714–1789), who, however, only created the relief plates in 1780. As things stand today, it is an original work by Gabriel de Grupello.

The figure is life-size and stocky. She stands in full armor and a falling cloak. The right hand holds a marshal's baton . The left arm is supported in the side. The head of the ruler is crowned with a laurel wreath . The chest of the honored person adorns the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece . The head of a lion appears to the side , the heraldic animal mountain , Jülich and the Electoral Palatinate . In the historical museum, the marble slabs of the earlier pedestal were placed, which represented emblems of war and the fine arts .

  • Plan of the building of the electoral picture gallery

  • The electoral picture gallery, in the middle the Jan Wellem statue (copper engraving from 1776)

  • The academy courtyard with Jan Wellem memorial, Andreas Achenbach (1831)

  • View into the courtyard of the picture gallery with statue (between 1860 and 1870)

  • Relief from the base

  • different relief from the base

  • The former Jan Wellem memorial in the courtyard of the Kunstgewerbeschule (before 1900, at that time the marble reliefs from the base were lost)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Board : Bäumgen (little tree), Josef . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 350–351 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '34.3 "  N , 6 ° 46' 17.4"  E