Joseph Anton Jentsch
Joseph Anton Jentsch (* 1698 in Hirschberg , Hereditary Principality of Schweidnitz ; † 1758 in Liebau ) was a German builder and architect who worked as the master builder of the Cistercian monastery of Grüssau and as the town builder of Liebau in Silesia .
Origin and career
His parents were Caspar Jentsch (1663-1740) and Anna Regina, née Rudolff. Their other sons were Caspar Jentsch of the same name, also a master builder, and Johann Jentsch, who as Father Michael Mönch of the Grüssau Monastery and was pastor in Liebau for many years. The father was a master mason in Hirschberg, chief elder of the masons' guild and magistrate.
In 1725 Joseph Anton Jentsch married Maria Magdalena Hertrampf in Hirschberg. After her death in 1727 he married Anna Barbara Kühn from Liebau in Grüssau . Their uncle Innozenz Fritsch was abbot of the Grüssau monastery from 1727 to 1734.
Joseph Anton Jentsch learned the mason trade from the master mason Martin Urban, the builder of the Grüssau St. Josephs Church. Then he worked as a master mason in Hirschberg. In 1728 Abbot Innozenz Fritsch was appointed Grüssau monastery master builder. In this position he worked from 1728 to 1734 as the construction manager of the new building of the monastery church of the Assumption of Mary, in which important Bohemian and Silesian artists were involved and whose plans come from the circle of the Braunau master builder Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer . In 1734, the abbots' guest house (next to St. Joseph's Church) was probably built according to Jentsch's plans. From 1735 to 1736 he worked as a builder in the renovation of the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Liebau. The St. Anna Chapel in Altreichenau , which belonged to the monastery estate ( Stiftsland ), was built from 1735 to 1736 based on his designs. After the death of the Liebau city architect Balthasar Ranke, Joseph Anton Jentsch was his successor.
literature
- Günther Grundmann: Jentsch, Joseph Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 411 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland: Silesia. Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 496, 502, 557, 868
Individual evidence
- ↑ P. Ambrosius Rose: Grüssau Monastery. Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-8062-0126-9 , p. 274
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jentsch, Joseph Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jentsch, Josef Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German builder and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1698 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hirschberg , Hereditary Principality of Schweidnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1758 |
| Place of death | Liebau , Hereditary Principality of Schweidnitz |