Johann Georg Plersch
Johann Georg Plersch (Polish Jan Jerzy Plersch ) (* 1704 or 1705; † January 1, 1774 ) was a Warsaw sculptor of German descent. There are no reliable documents about its origin. Possibly he was a student of Balthasar Permoser in Dresden . In 1729 he married Marianne Magdalene Fontana, daughter of the Warsaw architect Józef Fontana . Of his eight children, the eldest son Jan Bogumił Plersch (Johann Gottlieb Plersch) became a portrait painter.
Johann Georg Plersch worked in Wilanów from 1723 , where he created sculptural elements for the Wilanow Palace. In the middle of the 1830s he was appointed court sculptor for Polish kings. Before 1737 he was employed by the Saxon Building Department in Warsaw. 1741–1752 he created sculptures in the Warsaw Royal Castle.
He founded a stonemason's workshop in Warsaw, which made orders for many Warsaw churches and aristocratic residences, including a. the allegorical sculptures in the Saxon Garden.
Many of his works were destroyed in 1944. The preserved works include the facade sculptures and the pulpit in the Warsaw Salesian Church (Kościół Wizytek) in the Kraków suburb .
In the Saxon Garden in Warsaw
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bibliography
- D. Kaczmarzyk: Nowe materiały do monografii Jana Jerzego Plerscha , Biuletyn Historii Sztuki, No. XXXIII, 1971, volume 3
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plersch, Johann Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plersch, Jan Jerzy (Polish) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Warsaw sculptor of German descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1704 and 1705 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1774 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |