Johann Heinrich King

Johann Heinrich König (* 1705 ; † April 8, 1784 in Münster ) was a German wood sculptor of the late Baroque . As the successor to Johann Christoph Manskirch († 1762) he was court sculptor in Münster (Westphalia).

Life

Johann Heinrich König was born around 1705. There is evidence of his marriage to Maria Katharina Wiggermann in 1752. The couple had a daughter. The family was listed in the register of residents of the city of Münster in 1770 with residence in the Leischaft Jüdefeld. A maid also belonged to the household. In 1764, König was appointed court sculptor to the Prince-Bishop of Münster, Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels .

Works

High altar created by King 1754/1755 in the Catholic parish church of St. Dionysius Recke

The earliest work by King King, which is also documented in the archives, dates from 1738. It is the epitaph for Anton Heinrich Hermann von Velen in the south aisle of St. Paulus Cathedral in Münster. In 1754/55 he created the high altar of the Catholic parish church of St. Dionysius in Recke . Two side altars that he made in 1764 have not survived. King's pulpit of the church from 1771 is now in the church of the Franciscan monastery in Warendorf .

King's activity was not limited to Westphalia; he also received orders from what is now the state of Lower Saxony. The high altar and the side altars of the Catholic parish church of St. Katharina in Voltlage , consecrated in 1766, come from his workshop. Two figures of the apostles have been preserved in the church of St. Georg in Thuine , as well as a figure of Mary in the rectory. For St. Amandus in Aschendorf / Ems , König made several figures for the high altar built by Franz Rudolph Jöllemann (1703–1767), son of Thomas Simon Jöllemann . They are the sculptures of the church patron Amandus as well as of Johann von Nepomuk , Antonius von Padua and Franz Xaver . They are considered to be the best of the King's works.

In the Catholic parish church of St. Benedictus in Lengerich (Emsland) , the figures of St. Benedict and St. John the Baptist probably originally belonged to the high altar. König made three altars between 1766 and 1769 for the St. Andreas Church in Krapendorf (today Cloppenburg ), as well as the high altar of the provost church of St. Georg in Vechta. Six life-size sculptures have been preserved in the Catholic parish church of St. Vitus (Visbek) .

Other works by King include two figures of saints in the Catholic parish church in Oberlangen , figures of the apostles in Vestrup , Barßel and Lutten as well as in Beesten and Essen (Oldenburg) . The rococo busts of Ignatius von Loyola and Franz Xaver in the parish church of Hebelermeer were probably originally in Meppen . After the Franciscan monastery in Aschendorf / Ems burned down, König furnished the new church with new altars. The high altar is now in the parish church in Vinnen, built in 1856 .

literature

• Hans Galen, Helmut Ottenjann (Hrsg.): Westphalia in Lower Saxony . Museumsdorf Cloppenburg, Cloppenburg 1993, ISBN 3-923675-37-2