Lorenz Grove

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Lorenz Grove (* before 1434; † 1478 in Hamburg ; also Laurens Grove and Laurens Apengheter and Lawrence Semeling and Lawrence Grove ) was in northern Germany active sculptor , ore and Rotgießer of the 15th century.

Life

Fifth in Lübeck Cathedral

Grove is traceable as Laurentius Semeling in Lüneburg from 1434 to 1437 . The first works that can be assigned to Grove are a fifth in St. Mauritius in Hittfeld from 1438 and a baptismal vessel in Handorf from 1440. Both are signed Lavrens apengeter . At the time, Apengeter was the Low German term for red foundry. The next work that can be assigned to him is the baptismal font from 1455 in Lübeck Cathedral . It shows twelve relief figures (blessing Savior with victory flag, Mary, nine apostles and Saint Dorothea ). The art historian Max Hasse has pointed out that the relief figures show features of the Soft Style . Their forms were probably older. When the basin was made using the clay shirt process, the relief figures were riveted onto the boiler as separate cast parts after the boiler was cast. The combination with the relatively large figure of St. Dorothea is also unusual. The kettle stands on a central, chalice-shaped foot and on the outside on three kneeling angels. It is signed by him with Laurens grove . This designation can also be found from 1461 on all accounting documents of the city of Hamburg, where from 1466 he also becomes master of the city scales . In Hamburg he made chandeliers for the Hamburg City Hall in 1462 and 1467 and three large bombards in 1479 . The Lübeck gunsmith Klaus Grude , who cast the fifth for the Jakobikirche in Lübeck in 1466 , must have taken over molds from Lorenz Grove's inventory. The baptismal font in Jakobi stands on the same angel feet as that of Lübeck Cathedral.

literature

  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Published by Bernhard Nöhring: Lübeck 1920, pp. 171/172. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
  • Gustav Lindtke: Lübeck bronze baptisms of the Middle Ages. In: Der Wagen 1966, pp. 53–62.
  • Apengheter, Laurens . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 4, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-598-22744-2 , p. 205.

Web links

Commons : Lorenz Grove  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Niels Petersen: The city at the gates. Lüneburg and its surroundings in the late Middle Ages (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Volume 280), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1586-0 , p. 168; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ Hermann Wrede: Lüneburger Museumblätter , Heft 4, p. 111ff.
personal data
SURNAME Grove, Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grove, Laurens; Semeling, Laurentius; Apengheter, Laurens; Grove, Laurence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, ore and gunsmith
DATE OF BIRTH before 1434
DATE OF DEATH 1478
Place of death Hamburg