Johann Georg Moser (sculptor)

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Johann Georg Moser (* 1713/14, perhaps on April 2, 1713 in Traunstein ; buried on January 27, 1780 in Eutin ) was a German sculptor and plasterer .

Live and act

It is not known who Johann Georg Moser's parents were. He could possibly have been a son of the saltworks worker Christoph Moser († 1769 in Hofmark Au ) and Theresia Wienzlin (Wenzl; * 1681 in Hofmark Au), for which there is no reliable evidence. His early years of life are also not precisely documented. He had probably completed an apprenticeship after which he reached Eutin around 1737 on a wandering trip. Since several family members communicated with people in Berlin, he could have been there before. In Eutin he worked as a court sculptor and successor to his late father-in-law Theodor Schlichting . During this time he bought a house in Eutin, for which he received a loan from Johann Gottfried Rosenberg .

Moser did not receive any spectacular commissions from the Eutiner Hof. In the Eutin Castle , he mostly did repairs and replacements. In addition, there were small stucco work and furniture for the castle. Only the stuccoing of the ceiling of the castle chapel, carried out in 1778, was a major task.

In 1746/47 Moser worked on the vaulting of the new prince-bishop's grave chapel in Lübeck Cathedral for the court . In 1770 he designed the sculptural decoration of the St. George Hospital in Eutin, and in 1766 that of the ballroom of the Sielbeck hunting pavilion . Due to the longer time intervals between these orders, it can be assumed that Moser also had to find other customers. The contract with the Eutiner Hof guaranteed him regular payments and additional small amounts, which, however, were probably not enough to support his family. Moser probably worked for Johann Christian Löwen until around 1755, but he only awarded a few contracts, including manor houses and gardens for the Rantzau and Blumendorf estate near Bad Oldesloe . He was probably already working with Johann Gottfried Rosenberg at this time, but this is not clearly documented.

With the move of the architect Georg Greggenhofers to Eutin, Moser received significantly more external contracts. It can be assumed that he decorated all of Greggenhofer's buildings, with the exception of a few stucco work. In 1754 he designed the portal of the construction time at Gut Rundhof , and from 1770 to 1772 in Dobersdorf in addition to the portal, he also designed decorative vases, portal stairs, heraldic cartouche and several other components. Due to stylistic peculiarities, it is certain that Moser was involved in the Preetz monastery and the gatehouses of the Schönweide estates in 1755 , Hasselburg in 1763 and Testorf in 1769 . Here he designed inscription panels, heraldic cartouches, keystones and other elements. As part of this work, portal framing and door carvings were probably also created in 1765 at the Warleberger Hof and around 1771 on a town house in Preetz . In 1771 he designed the gate and one of the garden houses of the Schierensee estate .

Apart from the stucco work in Sielbeck, Moser mostly worked in the Rococo style in his works for Greggenhofer . He also applied this to several sacred objects, including the pulpits in the Vicelinkirche in Pronstorf (1761) and the Kieler Heiliggeistkirche (1761/62), an altar in Schönwalde am Bungsberg (1762) and pulpits in the St. Nicolai Church. Church of Grömitz (1766) and in the abbey church of Bordesholm (around 1771). However, only the pulpits in Kiel and Grömitz have been proven with certainty.

During the time when Moser cooperated more with other builders, in particular Johann Gottfried Rosenberg and Johann Adam Richter , he increasingly worked in the plait style , a German version of Louis-seize . This is with an inscription panel in Kiel Castle (1765) and a sandstone portal from 1769, the former pulpit altar and other carvings from 1770 in the Peter-Pauls-Kirche von Hohenwestedt , with garden vases in the Neuwerkgarten von Gottorf (1771/72) and ornaments in the garden of the Schierensee manor house (created from 1767).

Particularly noteworthy works by Moser in plait style can be found in the abbey church of Bordesholm: it is a marble sarcophagus for Friedrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf (around 1773), four sandstone sarcophagi in a crypt created by Caspar von Saldern and from 1776 the Sarcophagus by Friedrich Gabriel Muhlius . The last works that can be clearly assigned to Moser are four carved eight-armed chandeliers from the St. John's Church in Oldenburg . There are several indications that he designed at least most of the sandstone portal of the Schierensee manor in 1778. This is so far seen as the work of his son August Friedrich.

Moser didn't just work as a sculptor and stonemason. When the cascade systems of the Gottorf Neuwerkgarten were extensively repaired from 1774 to 1774 , he carried out earthworks and painting work and procured materials. From 1770 the sculptor Jacob Lemcke from Itzehoe also worked for Moser. His eldest son went to Berlin for further training in 1773. He only came back after his father's death and continued the business.

Moser's works show fluctuations in quality. The reason for this could be that he entrusted some of the detailed work to the employees in his workshop. He showed himself talented in ornamental and decorative work, but less so in portrait sculptures.

Works

family

In 1744/45 Moser married Catharina Maria Schlichting (baptized on December 15, 1723 in Eutin; † 1747/48 there). She was a daughter of the sculptor Theodorus Schlichting and his wife Anna Maria.

From Moser's first marriage came the son August Friedrich Moser , who took over the workshop.

In his second marriage, Moser married Catharina Margaretha Pakkendorff around 1748 (baptized on September 4, 1727 in Eutin; † March 14, 1809 ibid). She was a daughter of the forge master, court locksmith and deputy Eutin citizen Peter Jacob Packendorff and his wife Salome Margareth, née Köhne from Neustadt .

Moser's second marriage had four daughters and four sons, including:

  • Jacob Friedrich (baptized April 22, 1752). He worked as a sculptor in Eutin and Lübeck.
  • Johann Georg Moser first worked as a sculptor, then as a Prussian construction clerk.
  • Peter Rudolph (baptized November 19, 1763 in Eutin) worked as a sculptor in Eutin and Lübeck.

literature

  • Gisela Thietje: Moser, Johann Georg . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9-1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pp. 236-238.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Thietje: Moser, Johann Georg . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9-1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pp. 236-237.
  2. ↑ a b c d Gisela Thietje: Moser, Johann Georg . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , p. 237.
  3. ↑ a b c d Gisela Thietje: Moser, Johann Georg . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , p. 238
  4. ↑ Gisela Thietje: Schlichting, Theodorus . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , p. 338
  5. ↑ a b Gisela Thietje: Moser, Johann Georg . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , p. 236.
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and plasterer
DATE OF BIRTH 1713 or 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Traunstein
DATE OF DEATH buried January 27, 1780