Lorenz Franz Biggen

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LF Biggen Fecit - "L (orenz) F (ranz) Biggen did it"; Signature on Bernhard Goeken's tomb in the Stiftskirche Grauhof

Lorenz Franz Biggen , often Franz Lorenz Biggen , (before 1717 - after 1740) was a sculptor of the Baroque , the 1717-1740 in space Goslar worked.

Life and works

Pulpit of the Stiftskirche Grauhof

Biggen's life dates are not known. Worbis is mentioned as the place of origin, but it may also have been Italian and was perhaps brought to Northern Germany by Francesco Mitta to work on the new collegiate church of St. Georg in Grauhof. With the exception of two altars from the previous building and a few paintings, the high baroque furnishings of this church originate entirely from Biggen, whereby Mitta's contribution to the conception and Biggen's employee to the execution cannot be defined. He specifically signed the tomb for the provost and builder of the church and monastery Grauhof Bernhard Goeken , who died in 1726 , dated 1731. The pulpit , rich in figures and dated 1721, is considered to be his “splendid masterpiece” . In the books of the monastery Biggen appears from 1720 to 1726 as statuarius noster - "our sculptor".

Other works attributed to Biggen are the grave of the Fischbeck family in the Marktkirche Goslar , the pulpit of the Wöltingerode monastery church and the Nepomuk statue in Wiedelah .

In the Goslar district of Ohlhof , the Lorenz-Biggen-Weg is named after him.

literature

  • Jürgen Tiede: Biggen, Franz Lorenz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 10, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22750-7 , p. 609.
  • Kirsten Poneß: Kloster und Klostergut Grauhof (= DKV art guide No. 677). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-02359-8

Web links

Commons : Interior of the collegiate church St. Georg, Goslar-Grauhof  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poneß p. 14.
  2. ^ Lorenz-Biggen-Weg. (PDF; 817 KB) In: goslar.de. Retrieved April 19, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Poneß p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Biggen, Lorenz Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biggen, Franz Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sculptor in Lower Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH before 1717
DATE OF DEATH after 1740