Johann Gottfried Stecher

Johann Gottfried Stecher (born July 17, 1718 in Ehrenberg ( Kriebstein ), † December 17, 1776 in Penig ) was a carpenter and sculptor .

Life

Johann Gottfried Stecher was born as the son of the carpenter Christoph Stecher and his wife Anna Elisabeth, née Pachtmann. The family then lived briefly in Arnsdorf , Pappendorf and moved to Hainichen in 1736 . The carpenter / sculptor lived there until he moved to Penig in autumn 1768 , where he died on December 17, 1776. In Hainichen he had ten children with his first wife Beata Sibylle Zehl (married in 1739). After her death, the sculptor married Johanna Dorothea Müller, a sculptor's daughter from Frankenberg in 1762 , with whom he had two more children in Hainichen and four in Penig. The surviving sons all became sculptors: Friedrich Gottlob (1750–1798) in Hainichen , Friedrich Ernst (* 1755) in Taucha , Friedrich Gottlieb (1756–1792) in Grimma , Christian Friedrich (1759–1787) in Oschatz , Karl Christoph (1765 –1801) again in Grimma and Friedrich August (1769–1809) again in Oschatz. Only two works by these sons are known - the altars in the village churches of Rüsseina and Kirchbach by Friedrich Gottlob Stecher, who lives in Hainichen.

Johann Gottfried Stecher's older brother, Johann Christoph Stecher, who lives in Arnsdorf near Hainichen, created the somewhat unsuccessful altar for the church in Altmittweida in 1755 , of which the large central relief has been preserved.

Works

Johann Gottfried Stecher created the following works that have become known so far:

• 1744 version and gilding of the altar and the organ prospectus in Frankenberg (together with the painter Christian Friedrich Krafft ; not preserved)
• 1748/49 pulpit altar and baptismal angel in the village church of Frankenstein (baptismal angel in the Freiberg City and Mining Museum );
• 1752/53 pulpit, baptism and two confessionals for St. Nikolai in Freiberg (baptism since 2005 in the Frauenkirche in Dresden ; the confessionals not preserved);
• 1753/55 prayer room for Johann Samuel Zincke, Johann Christian Lange and Johann Gottfried Ruppolt in the Mittweida town church (remains are preserved in the Mittweida Museum);
• 1757/58 altar and prayer room based on designs by Johann Gottlieb Ohndorff for St. Johannis in Freiberg (remains in the town and mining museum have been preserved);
• 1758/59 organ prospectus of the Schöne organ for the town church in Hainichen (organ work destroyed, prospectus in the upper church St. Nikolai zu Cottbus );
• 1766/68 pulpit altar for the village church in Oberschöna ;
• 1770/73 altar, pulpit and lectern baptism for the village church in Seelitz ;
• Around 1770/75 life-size crucifix for St. Kunigunden in Rochlitz (on the north wall of the choir).

literature

• Yves Hoffmann / Uwe Richter: The Hainichen sculptor Johann Gottfried Stecher (1718–1776) . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 51/2005, pp. 94-108.
• Yves Hoffmann / Uwe Richter: The baroque new building of the Frankenberg Church 1740–1745 based on designs by Freiberg master carpenter Johann Gottlieb Ohndorff. A contribution to church building in the 18th century . In: Mitteilungen des Freiberg Altertumsverein 101/2008, pp. 67–200.

Web links

• Yves Hoffmann: Engraver, Johann Gottfried . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .