Johann Christoph Döbel

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1697: Joseph Altar in Heilige Linde
Altar of the Sorrowful Mother of God in Heilige Linde
1684/1688: Wall tomb of Bartholomäus Behm and Mrs. Catharina Pollia in the cathedral in Königsberg
Gable on the three-crowned box

Johann Christoph Döbel (* 1640 ; † November 17, 1705 or 1713, presumably in Königsberg ) was a German sculptor who mainly worked in East Prussia .

Life

Döbel was born in 1640 as the son of the sculptor Michael Döbel on a trip to Königsberg and was baptized on December 9, 1640 in Bladiau in East Prussia. He learned the art of sculpture in his father's workshop. As an assistant to his father, he worked together with his older brother Johann Michael Döbel (1635–1702) on the grave monument for the Ober-Regimentalrat and Chancellor Johann von Kospoth in the Königsberg Cathedral in 1663/64 . In June 1667, Döbel was briefly a builder for the Prussian elector and represented his brother in this function. The brother probably wanted to bring him to Berlin permanently , but it failed. While the older brother Michael made a career in Berlin, Johann Christoph Döbel then traveled from 1668 to 1679 as a freelance sculptor on a wandering through East Prussia. Chub probably went to Berlin around 1700. It is not clear whether he stayed there permanently or whether he would soon return to Königsberg.

On April 17, 1679, Döbel married Anna Fischer, the daughter of a ship owner in Königsberg's Altstadt district . The marriage produced three daughters.

Works

Works

Proven work includes:

  • 1663/64: Collaboration on the Kospoth monument in Königsberg Cathedral
  • 1681: Altarpiece in the Protestant parish church in Deutschendorf
  • 1687: Altarpiece in the Protestant parish church in Arnau
  • 1688/89: Altarpiece and pulpit in the Protestant parish church in Tharau
  • around 1690: Pulpit in the Protestant parish church in Laptau
  • 1696: six confessionals in Heilige Linde
  • 1697: Altar of the Sorrowful Mother of God, Joseph Altar in Heiligelinde
  • 1698/99: Altar of St. Anna, Altar of the Dying Savior in Heiligelinde
  • 1713: Shortly before his death, Döbel began work on an altarpiece with twelve angels in Berlin's Nicolaikirche . Samuel Theodor Gericke took care of the completion . In 1876 the altar was destroyed. Only ten angels remained, which employees of the Berlin City Museum found during research. One of the angels has since been restored and hangs in the church again.

Attributions

The art historian Anton Ulbrich also made the following attributions to Johannes Christoph Döbel :

  • 1674/1675: Wall tomb of Euphrosina von Borck in the parish church of Prussian Holland .
  • 1681/1684: Wall grave of Elisabeth Preuck in the German Church in Tilsit .
  • 1684/1688: Wall grave of Bartholomäus Behm and Mrs. Catharina Pollia in medallion form with portraits of the deceased in the coronation in the nave of the Königsberg Cathedral. The plant burned down in 1944.
  • 1685/1690: Confessional in the Protestant parish church in Fischhausen . Door of the confessional with the representation of Christ. On the lid of the confessional there are angels with instruments of suffering.
  • 1687/88: The altarpiece, eleven sculptures and parts of the pulpit of the parish church in Quednau could have come from Döbel.
  • 1688: Wall grave of Johann Dietrich von Tettau in the Protestant parish church in Schönbruch .
  • 1690: Altarpiece, pulpit and confessional in the Protestant parish church in Schönbruch .
  • 1690: Pulpit in the parish church in Prussian Holland .
  • 1691: Pulpit in the parish church in Petershagen .
  • around 1695: Carvings in the gable of the three-crown box in the Königsberg district of Tragheim
  • 1696: Altarpiece of the Protestant church in Freystadt in West Prussia
  • before 1702: pulpit in Brandenburg
  • 1702: Pulpit in the Parochialkirche Berlin

Ulbich Döbel also assigns several works of art that he found in the churches in Lyck , Guttstadt , Petershagen , Ischdaggen , Altstadt, Steinbeck , Grünhayn and Heinrichswalde . The altarpiece of the Protestant parish church in Kallinowen (destroyed in 1914), Trempen , Paterswalde and the altarpiece of the Protestant church in Starkenberg are said to come from Döbel's workshop. Possibly the organ case of the church in Landsberg was created by Döbel or in his workshop.

literature

  • Chub, Johann Christoph . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 361–362 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Herbert Straube: The Döbel family of sculptors , dissertation at the Royal Albertus University of Königsberg, Königsberg 1916 ( online )
  • Anton Ulbrich : Johann Christoph Döbel. In: Anton Ulbrich: History of sculpture in East Prussia from the end of the 16th century to around 1870 , two volumes, Königsberg 1926–1929, pp. 299–341
  • Doebel, Johann Christoph . In: Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt: Königsberg sculptures and their masters 1255–1945 . Holzner, Würzburg 1970, OCLC 4261883 , p. 60-62 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ In Kurt Tiesler: Directory of CVs 1579-1724 from the Königsberg City Library , Leipzig 1927 is found to be 1705 as the year of death. Straube (1916) and Thieme-Becker give the year 1713 as the date of death. Both refer to Friedrich Nicolai's royal description of the royal cities of Berlin and Potsadam (p. 57 in the appendix messages from artists under King Friedrich I ) from the year 1786. The year of death in 1713 seems more likely, since Chub asked the king for settlement in the same year sent an invoice (cf. Straube (1916), p. 53). But it could also be a son of Döbel of the same name.
  2. ↑ Ulbrich doubts that Döbel created the work and suspects that it could also have been a son of Johann Christoph Döbel. See Ulbich (1926–1929), p. 300

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt (1970)
  2. ↑ a b c Straube (1916)
  3. ^ Döbel, Johann Christoph . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 361–362 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Kevin E. Kandt: Schlueteriana III: Studies in the Art, Life, and Milieu of Andreas Schlueter . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2015, p. 71
  5. ↑ a b c d e Anton Ulbrich (1926–1929)
  6. ^ Gustav Ebe: The late Renaissance: Art history of the European countries from the middle of the 16th to the end of the 18th century . Volume 2, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1886, p. 659
  7. ↑ How the angels learn to fly again in Berlin's Nikolaikirche , Welt am Sonntag, March 19, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Chub, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1640
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1705 or November 17, 1713
Place of death Koenigsberg