Johann Jakob Herkomer
Johann Jakob Herkomer , also Johann Jakob Herkommer , (born July 3, 1652 in Sameister near Roßhaupten ; † October 27, 1717 in St. Mang Monastery, Füssen ) was a German builder, painter, sculptor, fresco painter and plasterer of the Baroque .
Life
Herkomer grew up with six siblings in Sameister, where his parents ran a post office with an inn.
Little is known about his school and apprenticeship days; there are indications that he was apprenticed to the Augsburg painter Johann Georg Knappich (1637–1704). Herkomer then traveled to Italy and worked for the patrician family Collalto in Belluno and Venice for a few years . Returning from Italy in 1685, he began building a chapel next to his parents' inn, which was to serve as a family burial site and where he could demonstrate his skills as an architect, fresco painter and plasterer. Herkomer then received a large number of orders from the local area. Herkomer spent the years 1694 to 1697 in Italy.
Herkomer died in 1717 before the completion of the church of St. Mang in the monastery and was buried in Sameister in "his" chapel.
Herkomer trained well-known baroque master builders such as Johann Georg Fischer , who was his nephew, and probably Dominikus Zimmermann as well .
plant
In addition to his chapel , the monastery and the church of St. Mang in Füssen are considered to be the main works of Johann Jakob Herkomer. Other important work was the renovation of the St. Moritz Church and the Baroque transformation of the Holy Cross Church in Augsburg. In 1716 he built the monastery church of the Fultenbach monastery (demolished in 1811).
A job that he could no longer carry out himself was the construction of the parish church of St. Jakob zu Innsbruck. He was also no longer able to complete the new construction of the St. Nikolaus Church in Füssen himself. His nephew Johann Georg Fischer completed the building in 1718 according to his plans.
literature
- Trautwein, Johanna: Johann Jakob Herkomer. Diss. Munich 1941 (unprinted).
- Hildebrand Dussler: The Allgäu baroque master builder Johann Jakob Herkomer . Verl. D. Homeland keeper of Swabia, 1956
- Heinz Jürgen Sauermost: Herkommer, Johann Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 624 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ingo Seufert: Johann Jakob Herkomer (1652–1717) . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-195-2
- Klaus Wankmiller: Johann Jakob Herkomer - On the 300th anniversary of the death of the Allgäu baroque master builder . Festschrift, Roßhaupten 2017.
- Klaus Wankmiller: Johann Jakob Herkomer ( 1652-1717 ) and his work in Tyrol , in: Extra Verren - Yearbook of the Museum Association of the Reutte District 12 (2017), pp. 51-104, ISSN 1992-0261.
- Johann Jakob Herkomer (1652–1717), symposium on the 300th anniversary of death (2017), Historischer Verein Altfüssen / Ingo Seufert (ed.), Kunstverlag Josef Fink / Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Lindenberg / Weißenhorn 2018, ISBN 978-3-87437 -587-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Jakob Herkomer in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herkomer, Johann Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herkommer, Johann Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German builder, painter, sculptor and plasterer of the Baroque era |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1652 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sameister |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1717 |
| Place of death | Feet |