Michael Riggus

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Michael Riggus (born in Augsburg before 1678 ; died after 1682 ) was a German fountain master , grotto artist and water artist.

life and work

The Great Cascade (detail) in the Great Garden of Hanover-Herrenhausen

Michael Riggus was from 1678 and until 1681/1682 as a fountain master in the service of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . As such, he was listed in the Guelphs' files with an annual salary of 212 Thalers including his house rent in the residential city of Hanover . His tasks initially included supervising the water machine behind the lock , more precisely the private water machine of the engineer Etienne Maillet de Fourton on the line at the Clevertor . Riggus also provided the decorations for the grotto and the cascade in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen , which the Italian architect Girolamo Sartorio was involved in from 1676 to 1680 , as did Brand Westermann and the “Fontanizer” Marinus Cadart . The original equipment of the grotto by Riggus with shellwork and water features was lost; In their place are now the wall mosaics by the French-Swiss artist Niki de Saint Phalle in three rooms .

Riggus also created the decoration of the Parnassbrunnen in the Calenberger Neustadt , in whose construction the artists Girolamo Sartorio and Marinus Cadart were also involved.

Web links

Commons : Michael Riggus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eduard Schuster : Art and artists in the principalities of Calenberg and Lüneburg in the period from 1636 to 1727 , reprint from the Hanover history sheets, Hanover, Leipzig: Commissions Verlag der Hahnschen Buchhandlung, 1905, p. 204; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Large garden , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hanover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 138–144; here: pp. 139, 142
  3. ^ Helmut Knocke: Wasserkunst In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present . Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 656
personal data
SURNAME Riggus, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fountain master, grotto artist and water artist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1678
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1682