Johann Peter Jäger

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Johann Peter Jäger (born November 1, 1708 , † November 17, 1790 in Mainz ) was a Kurmainzer court plasterer and architect during the Rococo era in the Holy Roman Empire .

Life

St. Ignaz in Mainz, the main work of the artist

The first documented mention of Jäger can be found in the summer of 1740, when he was granted the title of electoral court stucco officer at his own request . From an entry in the Mainz Citizens Register of August 4, 1749, it can be concluded that he became a Mainz citizen before this date.

Act

Kesselstatt Palace in Trier

As a self-employed artist, he appeared for the first time through a contract signed on May 30, 1743 for stucco work in the Kesselstatt Palace in Trier. Between 1740 and 1746, the imperial count's house in Kesselstatt had this representative palace built by the baroque master builder Johann Valentin Thoman .

The name he made for himself brought him further orders in Darmstadt Castle, in Frankfurt Römer , in Biebrich Castle (furnishing of the west wing, staircase), in the Osteiner Hof , here again for Thoman, and in the north wing of the Electoral Palace of Mainz, where he made further stucco work.

Altar buildings were another prominent field of activity of Jäger . Commissioned by Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein , he built a high altar for the pilgrimage church in Dieburg in 1749 . The model for this richly decorated baroque altar was the high altar (1737) of the Mainz Quintinskirche by Johann Maximilian von Welsch . The side altars on the ambulatory of Worms Cathedral were built between 1749 and 1751 . For the Liebfrauenkirche in Frankfurt he created an altar of Our Lady in the north aisle in 1750, which later brought him further larger orders in this sacred building. Together with his cousin Peter Mez, who was also a plasterer from Mainz, he designed several cracks for a complete renovation of the collegiate church and won the favor of the canons, so that one of them was executed. He built the high altar of the parish church of St. Marien in Königstein im Taunus in 1758. In the pilgrimage church of St. Stephan in Marienborn , consecrated in 1760, there are two side altars (1768–1770) attributed to hunters who were brought here from Gernsheim (Hesse) in 1881 .

His best-known and largest work is the parish church of St. Ignaz in Kapuzinerstraße ( Mainz old town ), which was built under his direction from 1763 to 1774/1775. Here he showed his competence as an architect. The drawings for the confessionals and the communion bench were made by himself. At the same time, he added a Valentinus chapel to the Mainz church of St. Christoph on Karmeliterplatz . The stuccoing of the academy hall in the new wing of the Electoral Palace (orthogonal to the Rhine) is dated to the years 1775/1776. He was employed as a plasterer by Mainz's senior building director Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn , a student of the French Jean Bérain , and his ornamentation was influenced by the classicism style.

Hunter's grave slab in the crypt of the Church of St. Ignaz

Jäger is linked twice to training centers for artists. Activities in the Electoral Academy of Fine Arts , which was established in 1757, and as a teacher of civil architectural drawing. His competence as an engineer is proven by documentary reports on the construction of the new crane in Mainz.

When Johann Peter Jäger died on November 17, 1790, he was buried in the crypt of the Church of St. Ignaz, where his grave tablet is still to this day.

literature

  • Heinz Krausse d'Avis: Johann Peter Jaeger. Kurmainzischer court plasterer and building councilor, 1708–1790. I. Life and work. II. Stucco work. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1916. (Reprint from Mainz magazine ) (also dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1916)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Construction files of the Kesselstatt'schen Adelshof in the State Archives Koblenz
  2. ↑ Rudolf Wahl: On the history of the furnishings in the St. Marien Church in Königstein im Taunus. In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History . Volume 5, 1953, pp. 384-389.
  3. ↑ Dr. Stefan Grathoff: The Catholic Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St. Stephan in Marienborn. In: Website of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV Accessed on January 15, 2011 .
  4. ^ Wilhelm Deuser: Johann Peter Jäger, the stucco master of the Kesselstatt'schen Adelpalais in: Trierische Chronik XIV. Year
  5. ↑ Erzstift Mainz: Kurmainzischer Hof- und Staats-Kalender auf d. Year 1790
  6. ↑ Copper engraving in the Rößler-Heerdt Collection: Elevation of the crane with the designation: JP Jäger inv. Delin. sculps. et extruxit.
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Johann Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German plasterer, sculptor and architect of the Rococo
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1708
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1790
Place of death Mainz