Johann Sturmer

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Johann Sturmer (* 1675 in Königsberg , Duchy of Prussia ; † 14. November 1729 Olomouc ) was a sculptor of the Baroque , in Moravia worked.

Life

Johann Sturmer probably came to Olomouc in 1703 at the latest in the course of his traveling years, where he worked as an apprentice sculptor in the workshop of Franz Zürn the Elder and other masters. He then worked as a master craftsman in Zwittau until 1712 , where he married around 1705. Then he returned to Olomouc, where he bought a house in Böhmengasse (today 8. května No. 523/3) near the Mauritz Church . In 1713, Sturmer became a citizen of the city and was accepted as a master in the stonemasons' guild.

The originally Lutheran Sturmer assumed the Catholic denomination at his wedding. He came to Olomouc with children from Zwittau, where another six children were born to him. Some of them were godfathered by the sculptor Wenzel Render , with whom he was friends for many years. He died of tuberculosis in 1729 and was buried in the Mauritz Church.

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Two angels from the Church of St. Florian in Moravské Huzové, Archbishop's Museum Olomouc

Johann Sturmer was influenced by the Lombard sculptor and plasterer Baldassare Fontana , who worked in Moravia. He himself worked on the younger generation of sculptors in Olomouc, such as Georg Anton Heintz , Johann Anton Richter, Philipp Sattler or Johann Georg Schauberger , who married a daughter of Sturmer. The sculptors Josef Winterhalder the Elder and Andreas Zahner worked in his workshop.

photos

  • St. John Nepomuk in Šumvald

  • St. Barbara in Cholina

  • Marian column in Moravská Třebová

  • St. John Nepomuk in Litovel

  • Virgin Mary statue in Fulnek

  • Angels in the Mauritz Church, Olomouc

  • Marian column in Litovel

  • Bílá Lhota

  • Marian column in Potštát

  • Trinity column in Fulnek

literature

  • Josef Matzke : Olomouc sculptor of the baroque period . Quellenverlag V. Diwisch, Steinheim / Main 1973, pp. 15-20.
  • Ondřej Jakubec / Marek Perůtka (eds.): Olomoucké baroko. Catalog . Muzeum umění Olomouc - Arcidiecézní muzeum Olomouc, Olomouc 2011 (in Czech)

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personal data
SURNAME Sturmer, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sturmer, Johann Wenzel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moravian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1675
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1729
Place of death Olomouc