Jobst Heinrich Lessen
Jobst Heinrich Lessen , around 1700, was a Goslar- based carver who created numerous altars, pulpits and pews in Goslar churches and in the northern Harz foreland . The carving of the furnishings in the Lamspringe monastery church in the Hildesheim district can also be traced back to Jobst Heinrich Lessen. The pew shown here is marked by the inscription Algemeiner christlger stuhl as a place for the laity.
For a time he worked with his relative Heinrich Lessen the Elder. Their work shows influences from the golden age of the Netherlands , insofar as the ornaments created by them are mainly composed of flowers and fruits.
literature
- Carl Borchers: Important Baroque Artists in Lower Saxony. The Goslar carver family Lessen . In: Our diocese past and present . 26th year. Hildesheim 1957. pp. 73-80
- Johannes Payten : Lessen, Jobst Heinrich (dJ) In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 434 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Georg Aschoff : The Catholic monastery landscape in the prince-bishopric of Hildesheim during the early modern period, in: Hansjörg Küster, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (ed.): To the qualities of monastic cultural landscapes, 2014, pp. 24-25
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| SURNAME | Lessen, Jobst Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German carver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1690 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1720 |