Johannes Frey (sculptor)

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Johannes Frey was a German carver who worked in Braunsberg and its surrounding area, what was then Warmia , from around 1730 to 1760.

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According to Anton Ulbrich, there is only one written record about Frey, of whose life nothing more than his approximate creative period (1735–1760) is known , which was published in 1871 in the communications of the Ermländischer Kunstverein . The tradition is related to the erection of the high altar of the Katharinenkirche in Braunsberg in the year 1753. Johannes Frey was referred to as a "sculptor", who received the sum of 700 guilders for the altar . According to Ulbrich, Frey was mainly only active as a carver and sculptor who, as part of the work-sharing creation of works of art, left the architecture to carpenters.

The altar, which was erected in 1753 but was not gilded and decorated until 1772, was later demolished; Before the Second World War , only the figures of Pope Gregory the Great and the High Priest Aaron remained , which were kept in the Warmia Museum in Braunsberg. According to a description, the figures were “in calm and secure position, with careful work through of all details u. flowing, only slightly excited drapery. The movements let in their moderation u. Naturalness not yet suspected of the Rococo era. "

Due to the similarity with the Braunsberg Altar, Frey von Anton Ulbrich attributed further work between 1740 and 1760, some of them to the carpenter Kode (Kohde). Ulbrich makes the attribution in particular because of the "stylistic peculiarities" of the figures created for the high altar in Braunsberg.

The high altar in the Catholic Trinity Church in Braunsberg is attributed in particular to Frey. The high altar in Wormditt , created around 1740, has been attributed to Frey and Johann Christian Schmidt . This also applies to the pulpit in the Kreuzkirche near Braunsberg, which is attributed to both Frey and Schmidt. According to Ulbrich, a clear attribution to the Frey or Schmidt workshop is not always flawlessly possible due to the stylistic "echoes of carvings from other origins".

Attributions

The pulpit in the Kreuzkirche near Braunsberg is attributed to Johannes Frey:
  • 1750: High altar in the Catholic parish church in Queetz .
  • 1740: High altar and pulpit in the pilgrimage church in Stegmannsdorf (today Chwalęcin).
  • 1735: Pulpit in the Kreuzkirche near Braunsberg.
  • 1750: High altar in the Catholic Trinity Church in Braunsberg.
  • 1744: Pulpit in the church in Wusen .
  • 1742: High altar in the church in Wusen.
  • Pulpit in the church in Bludau (today in Młynary ).
  • Pulpit in the church in Schlitt (also Schölitten), Heilsberg district.
  • 1740: high altar, Wormditt ; is attributed to both Johannes Frey and Johannes Christian Schmidt.
  • 1744: Pulpit, Wormditt
  • 1745: Wormditt, Altar of St. Joseph.
  • 1745: High altar in the Catholic parish church in Basien (today Bazyny) near Wormditt.
  • High altar in the Catholic parish church in Siegfriedswalde, Heilsberg district.
  • 1745: High altar in the Catholic parish church in Groß-Rautenberg.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Anton Ulbrich : Frey, Johannes . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 439 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ a b c Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 608 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  3. ↑ A picture can be found in the architectural and art monuments of the Province of East Prussia IV 47
  4. ↑ a b c Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 610 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de Fig. 765).
  5. ↑ Ulbrich, between pages 584 and 585, illustration on plate 37: “Ermländisches Museum in Braunsberg. Figure of Pope Gregory d. Size from the former high altar of the Catholic parish church in Braunsberg, 1753 ”.
  6. ↑ a b c d Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 609 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  7. ↑ a b c Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). Pp. 609, 611.
  8. ^ Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 615.
  9. ^ Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 620.
  10. ^ Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 619.
  11. ↑ a b c Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 613 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  12. ^ Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 604, 611: "If one should name a sculptor besides Frey who could be considered for this work, it is Johann Christian Schmidt" and P. 615 f .: "Sculptures in the Catholic Church in Wormditt".
  13. ^ Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 615 f.
  14. ^ Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 619 f .; P. 626 (ill.), With the indication “around 1745”.
  15. ^ Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 619 f.
  16. ^ Anton Ulbrich: Sculptor Johannes Frey in Braunsberg (?). P. 619 and 620 .: "at the latest around 1745".
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1730
DATE OF DEATH after 1753