Johann Christian Kirchner

Johann Christian Kirchner (born August 17, 1691 in Merseburg , † December 28, 1732 in Dresden ) was a sculptor at the Saxon court .

Life

In 1712 he came to Dresden and worked in the sculpture workshop of Balthasar Permoser at the Zwinger , where he made several sculptures for the Zwinger . These are the putti jewelry in the nymph bath , six putti with dolphins in the nymph bath , water-spouting fish in the nymph bath , nymph with the bouquet of flowers , figure group Neptune and Amphitheater and the figure group Triton and Nereid . The group of the four winds also comes from him: on the courtyard side are oyster the south wind with Iris the messenger of the gods and Euris the east wind with Eos the dawn ; on the wall side Zephyr the west wind with Chloeis the flower- bringer and Boreas the north wind with his wife Oreithyia .

In 1717 he was appointed court sculptor. He was granted Dresden citizenship in 1720. Kirchner died in 1732 and was buried in Dresden's Elias cemetery in field A 27-14. He designed his tomb himself; his brother Johann Gottlieb Kirchner completed it after his death. Today the grave monument is in the palace in the Great Garden .

Works

• 1719: Sculptures Meleager and Atalante and Venus and Adonis in the Great Garden , Dresden.
• Groups in the Great Garden on the Orthostats , Dresden
• 1726: Epitaph for Johann Friedrich Karcher , Leubnitzer Church , Dresden
• 1726: Figure decorations in the Großsedlitz baroque garden
• 1727: Terrace decorations with Johann Benjamin Thomae at Moritzburg Castle
• 1727–31: Deer and reindeer heads in Moritzburg Castle
• 1730: Hermen in the baroque courtyard of the Japanese Palace , Dresden
• 1727-31: Pedestal for Crucifix by Zacharias Longuelune , Augustus Bridge , Dresden
• 1732: Tomb of his wife with self-portrait, Eliasfriedhof Dresden, completed by his brother Johann Gottlieb Kirchner

literature

• Sigfried Asche:  Kirchner, Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 656 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 , p.?.
• Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden. History of his buildings. ISBN 3-86502-000-3 , p. 470.