Jeremias Sussner

Allegory at the Palais in the Great Garden, Dresden (around 1683)

Bust of the Emperor at the Palace in the Great Garden, Dresden (around 1683)

West gable at the Palais in the Great Garden, Dresden (around 1683)

Sculpture Pomona by Jeremias Süssner at Charlottenburg Palace (1688)

Statue of St. Anne in the Church of the Cross in Prague (1689/90)

Jeremias Süßner (born December 12, 1653 in Schlackenwerth ; † June 5, 1690 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Jeremias Süßner was born as the son of Paulus and Anna Süßner. He was probably the older brother of Conrad Max Süssner and was perhaps first a pupil of the sculptor Johann Heinrich Böhme in Schneeberg around 1668/70 . In line with his style, Sussner may have spent some time in Italy in the 1670s; but there is no concrete evidence for this.

In the 1670s, he is said to have overseen the renovation of Reichstadt Palace on behalf of Duke Julius Franz von Sachsen-Lauenburg . But this is an unsolved problem.

In 1679/80 Jeremias Süßner set up his own studio in Dresden, which he ran together with his brother Conrad Max. Since the two brothers presumably worked closely together for over ten years, the shares of both in some plants can no longer be safely separated. The tendency is that Jeremias is ascribed a more antiquated style and Conrad Max a more dynamic style. The Süßner workshop in Dresden worked together with the local workshops of other sculptors such as George Heermann , who recently returned from Italy, initially primarily for the court of Electoral Saxony. The major project of the Palais in the Great Garden with its numerous figures on the facades and in the interior offered a lot of work. Jeremias Sussner worked for this in stone and in stucco.

In 1685 Jeremias Süssner came into contact with the electoral court in Berlin, but continued his Dresden workshop. At that time he created a (lost) alabaster bust for the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm . In the following period he delivered 12 statues to Brandenburg according to the invoice documents from Dresden.

In 1689 he created three statues for the Church of the Cross in Prague , which were only delivered to their destination after his death in 1690. In the same year he moved to Berlin , where he was appointed court sculptor to the Elector of Brandenburg on June 29, 1689. In this context he settled 20 busts. Seriously ill, he returned to Dresden in 1690 and died of typhus on June 5th.

Works (selection)

• 1680–83: 12 imperial busts (with workshop participation), four large allegories and the city-side gable at the electoral palace in the Great Garden in Dresden, additionally two female busts (destroyed in 1945) and four (destroyed) female stucco statues in the hall on the upper floor
• around 1682 or later: figural decoration of the courtyard portals of the Dresden Residenzschloss (these are also alternatively ascribed to his brother)
• around 1683/86: bust of an emperor (destroyed in 1945) on the garden front at Landhausstrasse 13, home of the architect Johann Georg Starcke , Dresden
• 1685: Stucco busts for the Brandenburg court, twelve Caesars and four empresses, Berlin
• 1687: Flora sandstone figure, Charlottenburg Palace Park in Berlin-Charlottenburg
• 1688: Pomona sandstone figure, Charlottenburg Palace Park in front of the Orangery, Berlin
• 1683–1690: Caryatids on the balustrade in the palace gardens of Schloss Reichstadt (together with Johann Caspar Süßner and Matthias Süßner), Zákupy (Reichstadt) in northern Bohemia
• 1687–1690: four large statues on the attic and two reclining figures at the entrance portal of Oranienburg Castle
• 1687–1690: Sandstone sculptures for the palace gardens in Oranienburg, later moved to Charlottenburg, Berlin
• 1689/90: statues of St. Joachim, St. Anna with Maria and St. Barbara in the Kreuzherrenkirche in Prague. They were delivered to Prague after the sculptor's death and are documented as being the work of Jeremiah.

literature

• Sigfried Asche : Three families of sculptors on the Elbe. Wien, Verlag RM Rohrer, 1961. pp. 94–110 and catalog numbers E1 – E10.
• Heinz Quinger : Dresden and the surrounding area. History, art and culture of the Saxon capital. Cologne, DuMont Reiseverlag, 1999 ISBN 3-7701-4028-1 , ISBN 978-3-7701-4028-2 .
• Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden. Leipzig, Seemann, 1955 (16th edition 2006) ISBN 978-3-86502-000-0 , ISBN 3-86502-000-3 .
• Olaf B. Rader: A short history of Dresden. Munich, Beck Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-52857-6 ; ISBN 3-406-52857-0 .

Web links

Commons : Jeremias Süßner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Baptismal register Schlackenwerth 1627–1644, fol. 240: December 12, 1653 Geremiaß, parents: Paullus Sößner uxor Anna Christina. Witness: Jacobus Pehem; Godparents: Marttin Wolf u. Catharina Lühl (in)
2. ↑ Asche 1961, pp. 95 and 96, drew the conclusion of the relative age and student body. There are no corresponding documents.
3. ↑ Sehnal 2009, pp. 14–15.
4. ↑ Ashes 1961.
5. ^ Sigfried Asche: Three families of sculptors on the Elbe.
6. ↑ Jiří Sehnal: Život a dílo vrcholně barokních sochařů Heermannů a Süssnerů from 17th to 18th stol. v německém a českém prostředí (Life and work of the baroque sculptors Heermann and Süssner in the 17th and 18th centuries in Germany and Bohemia), diploma thesis, Charles University in Prague, 2009, with several individual documents, (Czech) (accessed June 18, 2017)
7. ↑ Attributed to Jeremias Sussner by Von Asche in 1961 due to stylistic similarities with the Prague figures.
8. ↑ Asche 1961, pp. 106-107.
9. ^ Attribution to Asche 1961.