Gottlieb Heymüller

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Johann Mathias Gottlieb Heymüller (* around 1715 in Glenk Abbey near Steyr , ( Upper Austria ); † December 17, 1763 in Potsdam ) was a German sculptor in Bamberg and court sculptor in Potsdam. He is one of the most important artists of the Frederician Rococo .

Life

Heymüller was the son of the court carpenter Johann Florian Heymüller († July 28, 1754). On February 22, 1740, he married the daughter of the master plasterer Johann Jakob Vogel , Maria Elisabeth, in Bamberg . This made him the brother-in-law of Johann Peter Benkert . With this he worked together in a workshop community; so that Heymüller's independent works are very difficult to determine. In 1746 Heymüller went to Potsdam, probably following the call of his brother-in-law Peter Benkert. Among other things, he created the life-size figures of Chinese people who drink tea and make music around the tea house (built 1754–1756) in Sanssouci Park .

Other places of his work were Kersbach and Memmelsdorf .

Works in Potsdam

  • Gable relief on Potsdam City Palace (deposited when the ruins were removed), 1751
  • Attic figures of the Potsdam City Palace (partially preserved), 1750s
  • Attic figures of the town hall (replaced by copies), 1753
  • Ornamental vases in rococo shapes on the attic of the uniformly designed town houses at Schlossstrasse 9a – 11 and Am Neuen Markt 10/11, 1752
  • Attic vases of the house designed by Knobelsdorff at Henning-von-Tresckow-Straße 13, 1752
  • Sculptures on the obelisk on the Alter Markt : Reliefs of the Hohenzollern rulers from Elector Friedrich Wilhelm to King Friedrich II (replaced by portraits of architects from Potsdam during reconstruction in 1979), figures of speakers, sphinxes, with Benjamin Giese and Johann Peter Benkert , 1753–1755
  • Marble sculptures in front of the picture gallery in Sanssouci with Johann Peter Benkert, Felice Cocci and Giuseppe Girola 1755–1763
  • Chinese sculptures at the Chinese tea house in Sanssouci, 1755–1756
  • Statue decoration of the New Palace (workshop products), from 1763

Others

The Peter and Paul parish in Potsdam points out that Gottlieb Heymüller and Johann Peter Benkert were parishioners.

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personal data
SURNAME Heymüller, Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heymüller, Johann Mathias Gottlieb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyr , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1763
Place of death Potsdam