Lorenz Spengler
Lorenz Spengler also Lorentz , (born September 22, 1720 in Schaffhausen , † December 20, 1807 in Copenhagen ), was an important Swiss art turner and ivory carver as well as naturalist and Danish-Royal Chamber of Art administrator in Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen.
Life
Lorenz Spengler's parents were the master mason Johann Conrad Spengler and Maria Peter. In 1734 they sent him to apprenticeship with the important Regensburg art turner Johannes Martin Teuber . Ten years later he embarked on the years of traveling that led him to London via Holland.
There he and other artists received a call to Copenhagen, where he received from Christian VI. and his son Friedrich V. was appointed court turner, with an apartment in the castle. The king and other personalities learned the art of woodturning from him. Appointed manager of the Kunstkammer in 1771, he held this position until 1806. Due to his diverse education, he was appointed librarian to the queen. In 1776 he became a member of the Natural Research Society in Danzig .
He also collected shell and snail shells and wrote a number of papers on them. Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz mentions him several times in his works. Spengler was a member of several scientific societies, including the Leopoldina from 1761 .
In 1773 he gave the fishermen's guild in Schaffhausen a nautilus cup . Another cup, the so-called Neptune cup from 1580/1600, of which only a copy is now available, came from Spengler's private art gallery and is considered lost. Art turning works by him (in ivory, amber, etc.) are mainly in Copenhagen's Rosenborg Castle.
He was the great uncle of Johann Conrad Fischer (metallurgist) , who also visited him in Copenhagen. His son Johan Conrad Spengler was also administrator of the Royal Chamber of Art.
Works
Exquisite snails, mussels and other shell animals on the highest orders, Sr Königl. Majest. after d. Orig. Painted, engraved in copper, u. enlightened with natural colors. Franz Michael Regenfus. Copenhagen 1780.
literature
- Walter Ulrich Guyan : Schaffhausen treasures . K. Augustin. Thayngen, 1992
- Eugen von Philipovich : Lorenz Spengler. In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History 58, 1981, pp. 307-312.
- Carl H. Vogler: The artist and naturalist Lorenz Spengler from Schaffhausen. In: New Year's Gazette of the Historisch-Antiquarischer Verein and the Kunstverein Schaffhausen , 1889–1899. Schaffhausen, 1898/1899.
- P. Kaas, J. Knudsen: Lorentz Spengler's descriptions of chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). In: Zoologische Mededelingen 66, 1992, No. 3, pp. 49-90 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Spengler, Lorenz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Lorenz Spengler. In: Sikart
- Lorenz Spengler on the website of the Royal Danish Collection at Rosenborg Castle (English)
- Portraits of Lorenz Spengler at Europeana
- Portrait of Lorenz Spengler by Jakob Samuel Walwert, in the digital portrait index
Individual evidence
- ^ New collection of experiments and treatises of the Natural Research Society in Danzig, 1. (1778), preface (unpaginated): Continued list of members since 1756.
- ^ List of members of the Leopoldina
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spengler, Lorenz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spengler, Laurentz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1720 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schaffhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1807 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |