Johann Heinrich Gengenbach

Johann Heinrich Gengenbach (* around 1645/50; in Zeitz ; † January 4, 1717 there ) was a German builder and architect .

It was a master builder in the Duchy of Saxony-Zeitz , but also carried out construction work in the surrounding territories. Gengenbach probably also drew the funeral of Duke Moriz of Saxony-Zeitz († 1681) and his wife Dorothea Maria († 1675), of whom Jacob von Sandrart made copperplate engravings.

Works

• 1683 Suggestions for the conservation of the pleasure house on the Dolmar near Kühndorf
• 1686–1693 Friedenskirche Jena with the assistance of Johann Leonhard Reinhold from Eisenach
• 1701 Opera house in front of the Salztor in Naumburg
• 1704 Proposal to expand the Kreuzkirche in Suhl
• 1706–1712 tea house and orangery in Altenburg
• 1707–1716 Repair of St. John's Church in Schleusingen
• 1709 Statement on the planned expansion of a bath in Wilhelmsbrunnen
• 1713: Draft for the colored exterior design of Bertholdsburg Castle in Schleusingen
• 1714: Proposal to repair the pleasure house on the Dolmar near Kühndorf

literature

• Highly deserved and immortal memorial and honorary meal / The former ... Mr. Moriz Hertziehten zu Sachsen ... Postulated administrators of the Stifft [...] (=  prints of the 17th century (VD17) ). 1682 ( digital.bibliothek.uni-halle.de - with copperplate engravings based on his drawings).
• Johann Heinrich Füssli : Gengenbach (Johann Heinrich) . In: Artists of the World: or Short Message of the life and works of the painter, sculptor, architect, engraver, Kunstgiesser, steel cutters, ... Part 2, Section 3: G K . Orell, Füssli and Compagnie, Zurich 1806, p. 425 ( books.google.de ).
• Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist Lexicon or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . tape 5 : Gallimberti – Haslöhl . Fleischmann, Munich 1837, p. 88 ( books.google.de ).
• Gengenbach, Johann Heinrich . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 389 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Volker Frank: Gengenbach, Johann Heinrich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 51, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22791-4 , p. 321.