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Melchior to the streets

Melchior Anton zur Strassen (actually Zurstrassen) (born December 28, 1832 in Münster , † February 27, 1896 in Leipzig ) was a German sculptor .

Life

His grave in the New Johannisfriedhof Leipzig

Zur Strassen's father, Johann Friedrich Christian Zurstrassen (1795–1856), owner of a jewelry and antique shop in Münster, Ludgeristrasse, had planned his younger son Melchior, the seventh of ten children, for an agricultural education. His godfather and uncle, an older brother of his father, was the baker, brewer and long-time guild master of the Melchior Anton Zurstrassen (1790–1867) baker's guild from Münster, Salzstrasse. The JF Christian Zurstrassen family moved from Münster via Hamm / W. to Cologne. Only here was he allowed to do an apprenticeship with the sculptor Wilhelm Joseph Imhoff (1791–1858) in 1850 . The impression of the Pietà by Wilhelm Achtermann, which was ceremoniously presented in the cathedral in Münster in 1850, had a strong influence on his decision to devote himself to sculpture . A high relief of the 14 stations of Christ's suffering created in Cologne by zur Strassen drew Christian Daniel Rauch's attention to him, in whose workshop in Berlin he then worked from 1854.

In 1857 he went to Rome for two and a half years , after his return received the Prussian state scholarship connected with a renewed study visit to Rome and finally returned to Berlin in 1863 and moved into part of the studio of Rauch, who died in 1857. In 1864 he married in Hamm / W. Cecilia Otto. His half-cousin Hermann Landois (1835–1905), who was a Catholic priest and later a zoologist, zoo founder and original from Münster, performed the wedding ceremony . Both had a grandmother in common. In 1870 Melchior zur Strassen became a professor at the Royal Bavarian Art School in Nuremberg . In April 1875 he became inspector of the newly founded arts and crafts museum in Leipzig and at the same time a teacher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts there . His students included Carl Brasch , Wilhelm Neumann-Torborg , Arthur Trebst (1861–1922), Carl Seffner , Adolf Lehnert , Albert Weinert (1863–1947/1948) and Felix Pfeifer . He died in Leipzig and was buried in the Neues Johannisfriedhof .

His son Otto zur Strassen (1869–1961) was a zoologist and editor of the 4th edition of Brehm's Thierleben . His grandchildren were the zoologist Richard (1926–2013) and the sculptor Hermann zur Strassen (1927–2019).

Work (selection)

War memorial 1866 in Westpark, Dortmund
Caritas , 1867, in the courtyard of the Munich City Archives
Marble relief Gustav Heinrich Duncker, 1883, Lapidarium Alter Johannisfriedhof Leipzig
  • Group in the gable of the main post office (Leipzig)
  • Figure of Lipsia (on the Leipzig Stock Exchange)
  • Statues by Rembrandt and Rubens (at the Leipzig City Museum)
  • 1883: Portrait medallion Gustav Heinrich Duncker, marble relief, current location: Lapidarium Alter Johannisfriedhof Leipzig
  • 1885/1886: 110 m long frieze with representations from regional history ( Landesgalerie Linz , executed by Rudolf von Cöllen)
  • 1889: Statues of Frederick the Arguable , Elector Moritz , Goethe and Lessing (at the Leipzig University Library)
  • Female figure (at the German Bookseller's House in Leipzig)
  • 1896: Seyfferth Monument ( marble bust , Johannapark , Leipzig, executed by Otto Schütze)

Publications

  • (as ed.): Tips of the 16th to 19th centuries. From the collections of the Kunstgewerbe-Museum in Leipzig. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1894. (2 folders)
  • (as ed.): Templates for manual skills lessons. Edited at the instigation of the German Central Committee for manual skills lessons and domestic diligence. EA Seemann, Leipzig undated

literature

  • G. Wustmann: Zur Strassen, Melchior. In: Anton Bettelheim: Biographical Yearbook and German Nekrolog. 1st volume. Reimer, Berlin 1897, p. 90 f. ( GBS-US )

Web links

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  • City Archives Münster (Westphalia)
  • Stegers family archive, Möhnesee
  • Münsterischer Anzeiger dated December 28, 1932

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wienand-koeln.de (PDF; 4.9 MB)
  2. ↑ uni-leipzig.de ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-leipzig.de
personal data
SURNAME to the streets, Melchior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES to the streets, Melchior Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1896
Place of death Leipzig