Marinus Cadart
Marinus Cadart was a fountain master whose "origin, life dates and training are unknown". "He was probably a Frenchman ... possibly (also) working in Italy ". In Hanover it can be proven for the first time in 1674 and from 1676 to 1689.
Career and works (if known)
Marinus Cadart first came to Hanover from Denmark in 1674 . From 1676 he was employed as a fountain master for the expansion of the water art in Herrenhausen . Based on his designs, they were created in the Great Garden
- the grotto 1677–1679 and 1684–1686
- the cascade 1677–1684 / 85
- the flat roofs and cave decorations of the palace wings
with the collaboration of the Augsburg grotto Michael Riggus .
In 1677, Cadart had two elevated water tanks built on the dune west of the Berggarten for the Great Garden , in order to connect them in 1686 with a water pipe from Benther Berg . However, since his attempts to supply water were unsuccessful, he was dismissed in 1689.
Current state of research
The activities of Marinus Cadart are probably more extensive than assumed according to the current state of research.
According to the memoirs written down by Christian Georg Vick , Cadart began building the garden theater in the Great Garden between 1689 and 1692 .
literature
- Eduard Schuster : Art and artists in the principalities of Calenberg and Lüneburg in the period from 1636-1727 , Hanover, 1905, p. 76-102, p. 199
- Bernd Adam: New finds for the baroque expansion of the palace complex in Hanover-Herrenhausen , pp. 61–66 and above, in: Low German contributions to art history 40 (2001), pp. 59–97
- Helmut Knocke : Cadart. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 83 and others; online through google books
- Helmut Knocke: Cadart, Marinus. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 104.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Both the Hannoversche Biographische Lexikon and the Stadtlexikon Hannover state 1694; According to the career, however, this is probably a typographical error; it should be called 1674
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cadart, Marinus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Fountain master |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th century or 18th century |