Johann Jacob Achelius
Johann Jacob Achelius (born February 13, 1794 in Lübeck ; † April 14, 1870 there ) was a German master glassmaker .
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Achelius was the son of the Lübeck master glazier Bernhard Achelius (* 1749 in Thedinghausen , † 1814 in Lübeck) and his second wife Sarah Catharina, b. Starcky (* 1762 in Lübeck; † 1829). In 1812, during the French period in Lübeck , he was sent to Riga to avoid being drafted into the army. After the liberation in 1813 he returned and was probably an apprentice in his father's workshop. In 1815 he was a volunteer with the 2nd Lübeck Jäger Company and took part in the summer campaign of 1815 . A journeyman since December 1818 , in 1822 he took over the workshop of his deceased father at Mengstrasse 31. In the same year he married Anna Catharina Maria, geb. Möller, the daughter of the elderly man in the office of the Buntfutterer Carl Friedrich Müller.
The marriage and well-running business brought Achelius to prosperity, which enabled him to build a spacious house on Sandstrasse . He traveled extensively and built up an extensive art collection. Achelius was engaged in many ways: from 1836 he was a senior man in the office of glaziers; from 1849 to 1859 he belonged to the Lübeck citizenship and from 1862 to 1868 was a member of the board of directors of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , to which he had belonged since 1832. For a time he was director of the non-profit industry and trade school .
Workshop, Mengstrasse 31
Residential house, Sandstr. 28
His acquaintance and collaboration with Carl Julius Milde became significant . Milde found in Achelius a glazier who still mastered the traditional technique of glass painting and who had the necessary tools and an oven for firing the glass and the colors in his traditional workshop. Milde and Achelius initially worked together on the restoration of the glass windows that were saved when the castle church was demolished and their installation in St. Mary's Church in the early 1840s; they were destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942 . In 1858 Milde had the windows of the village church of Semlow, which he had restored , made by Achelius, and from 1858 to 1860 they jointly restored the windows of the Dargun monastery church (destroyed in 1945). Other projects were the coat of arms windows in the Jakobikirche in Lübeck, the windows of the Maria Magdalenen Church in Berkenthin and the Nikolaikirche in Plön .
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The highlight of their collaboration was the production of the large west window for Cologne Cathedral , for which Milde had received the order from the donors, the Prussian Crown Prince couple Friedrich and Victoria . The window, a 15 m high glass painting on the Thame Last Judgment on a window area of over 70 square meters , was created in the glass workshop of Achelius in 1865–1870; it was used in 1877, seven years after Achelius' and two years after Milde's death. After being damaged in World War II , it did not return to its old location until 1993.
Shortly before his death in 1870, Achelius handed the workshop over to his journeyman Carl Martin Berkentien (* 1840). The Berkentien family continued the workshop for three generations until the last quarter of the 20th century.
literature
- Alken Bruns: Achelius, Johann Jacob , in: New Lübecker CVs. Neumünster: Wachholtz 2009 ISBN 978-3-529-01338-6 , pp. 15-17
- Horst Weimann: In Jesus name, amen. Johann Jacob Achelius, the glazier of the painter C J. Milde. In: Yearbook of the St. Marien Bauverein zu Lübeck 1953/54, pp. 33–40
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Achelius, Johann Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German master glazier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1870 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |