Johann Georg Wilhelm Landré

Johann Georg Wilhelm Landré (* 1755 in Berlin ; † July 5, 1818 in Lübeck ) was a German bell founder and council founder of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Landré was trained at the foundry in Copenhagen and came to Lübeck in 1784, where he was soon accepted as a citizen in 1787. Here he initially worked with the bell founder Johann Christoph Aschersleben. In 1790 he was appointed by the Lübeck Senate as the successor to Johann David Kriesche as council founder of the city, which traditionally held the casting house on the Lastadie for the council founder . With him the great time of the bell foundry in the Lübeck foundry came to an end. Despite the political turmoil and adversity of his creative time and the impoverishment of the city and the surrounding area that began in the Lübeck French era , around 30 bell castings are known to exist, including the last large cast in the Lübeck casting house in 1811, the two large bells for the Schwerin Cathedral , which were already came to be melted down in the First World War as material essential to the war effort. The other bells are and were mainly in Lübeck and the surrounding Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein . For the Marienkirche he also made a pair of brass candlestick arms for the confessional chapel in 1791 .

literature

• Lübeck Baudeputation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Volume 3: Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: Church to Alt-Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Issued by the building authorities. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 86, 302, 533 (Unchanged reprint. Verlag für Kunstreproduktionen, Neustadt an der Aisch 2001, ISBN 3-89557-167-9 ).
• Theodor Hach : Lübecker Glockenkunde (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Volume 2, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Max Schmidt, Lübeck 1913, p. 264.
• Johann Georg Wilhelm Landré . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 300-301 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann David Kriesche	Lübeck council founder 1790–1818	Friedrich Wilhelm Hirt