Johann Jürgen Busch

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Johann Jürgen Busch (* February 1757 - baptized February 27, 1757 - in Schwerin , † December 2, 1820 in Rome ) was a German sculptor .

Johann Jürgen Busch was the son of the cabinet maker Daniel Heinrich Busch († April 29, 1793 Schwerin, 68 years old) and nephew of the sculptor and builder Johann Joachim Busch . Around 1780 he studied at the Academy in Copenhagen and in 1783 went on a permanent scholarship to Rome, where he lived in the neighborhood of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen . From there he supplied the ducal court in Ludwigslust with a few copies of antique busts and figures, but failed to earn a regular income and died in abject poverty. The evangelical community in Rome paid for the burial in the Protestant cemetery at the Cestius pyramid . The famous painter Asmus Carstens was one of his friends .

Works

  • 1796 Marble bust Friederike Brun in private ownership
    • dto. Plaster in the Thorwalden Museum in Copenhagen
  • 1812 marble bust of Catherine II , formerly Glyptothek Munich (originally intended for the Walhalla Regensburg, but not found good enough)
  • Statue of a " Venus "
  • Copies of antiquities (all around 1802) in the Schwerin State Museum
    • Youth head
    • Bust of " Aphrodite of Arles " (copy after the head of the marble statue in the Louvre in Paris)
    • Bust of a Narcissus (after the head of an ancient statue in the Museo Pio Clementino in Rome)
    • Bust of Homer (copy after a bust in the National Museum of Naples )
    • Bust of Niobe (copy after the head of a statue in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence )
    • Bust of a muse (copy after the head of the statue of Melpomene in the Museo Pio Clementino in Rome)
    • Bust of Apollo Kitharoedos (copy after the head of the statue in the Museo Pio Clementino in Rome)
  • Woodcut of an ancient group "Satyr and the billy goat" in the Thorwaldsen Museum in Copenhagen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptism entry in the church book of the Schwerin Castle Church
  2. ↑ Entry in the death register of the Schwerin cathedral community
  3. ^ Catalog of the Thorwaldsen Museum
  4. ^ Catalog of the Thorwaldsen Museum
personal data
SURNAME Busch, Johann Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busch, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH baptized February 27, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1820
Place of death Rome