Joachim Querfurt

Joachim Querfurt (* in Braunschweig ; died 1698 ) was an early Baroque wood sculptor in the Duchy of Braunschweig .

Live and act

Querfurt was probably a brother or close relative of Tobias Querfurt . On October 26, 1687, he married the widow of the sculptor Hermann Scheller (Margarete, née Kettelhut) and thereby acquired his house and workshop at Meinhardshof 5.On October 25, 1693, he entered into a second marriage, from which a daughter was born December 1697 was baptized and Sebastian Huggenberg was the godfather.

Querfurt carved the tomb for the secret war council, major general and high commanders of Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel Tobias Schmiedberg († February 2, 1690). From 1689 to 1694 he was involved in building the palace in Salzdahlum and then from 1695 to 1697 in building the Trinity Church I in Wolfenbüttel. On June 18, 1698, he received the order for 1,000 thalers to build the high altar of the Benedictine Church in Quedlinburg , the completion of which he did not live to see. This order also documents the transfer of an altar wall construction by the court sculptor Sebastian Huggenberg in Wolfenbüttel, the execution of which Querfurt was supposed to supervise. Together with him he also made several statues for the palace and the park in Salzdahlum. Querfurt was already seriously ill at this point in time. After his death, the high altar was completed in 1700 by his colleague Hugenberg. Tobias Querfurt and the painter Joachim Luhn from Harnburg also belonged to the community of artists who were involved in the execution of this work . Querfurt's artistic focus was probably on the production of small sculptures, so that a 24 cm high ivory bust of Duke Anton Ulrich from 1685 was ascribed to him.

literature

Joachim Querfurt. In: Paul Jonas Meier : The handicraft of the sculptor 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, pp. 92–93 ( tu-braunschweig.de ).
Querfurt, Joachim . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 517 .
Wolfgang Kelsch: The Querfurt family of artists reflected in the baroque court culture of Duke Anton Ulrich - On the 350th birthday of Duke Anton Ulrich on October 4, 1983 In: Braunschweigische Heimat . 68th volume, issue 2, Braunschweig June 1983, pp. 33-47 ( tu-braunschweig.de ).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Joachim Querfurt. In: Braunschweigische Heimat . 68th volume, issue 2, Braunschweig June 1983, pp. 35, 42–43 ( tu-braunschweig.de ).
↑ Joachim Querfurt. In: Paul Jonas Meier: The handicraft of the sculptor in the city of Braunschweig since the Reformation. 1936, p. 93 ( tu-braunschweig.de ).
↑ Querfurt, Joachim . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 517 .

personal data
SURNAME	Querfurt, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and builder
DATE OF BIRTH	17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	1698

[BS-Heimat-1] Joachim Querfurt. In: Braunschweigische Heimat . 68th volume, issue 2, Braunschweig June 1983, pp. 35, 42–43 ( tu-braunschweig.de ).

[2] Joachim Querfurt. In: Paul Jonas Meier: The handicraft of the sculptor in the city of Braunschweig since the Reformation. 1936, p. 93 ( tu-braunschweig.de ).

[3] Querfurt, Joachim . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 517 .