Peter Anton from Verschaffelt

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Peter Anton from Verschaffelt
Epitaph in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche Mannheim for Verschaffelt's daughter Ursula, created by himself

Peter Anton von Verschaffelt (also Pierre Antoine Verschaffelt or Pietro Fiamingo in Rome ; * May 8, 1710 in Gent , † July 5, 1793 in Mannheim ) was a Flemish sculptor and architect.

After years of training in Ghent in his grandfather's workshop, and later in Brussels , he was a student of Bouchardon in Paris . From 1737 Verschaffelt was in Rome . After a difficult early years, Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga (1690–1756) became aware of him, who promoted him from then on. In 1745 Verschaffelt was accepted into the Accademia di San Luca . In 1748 he was commissioned to replace the damaged bronze statue of Archangel Michael by Raffaello da Montelupo on Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome. In 1751 the Prince of Wales brought him to London .

From there he was appointed to Mannheim in 1752 as the successor to the Palatinate court sculptor Paul Egell . One of his first tasks was the plastic jewelry in the castle garden of Schwetzingen, for which he created the deer and river groups, which are still the hallmarks of the park today. In the royal seat of Mannheim he was involved in the construction of the Jesuit Church , the armory and the Bretzenheim Palace . The only church building designed by him is the pilgrimage church of the Assumption in Oggersheim ( Ludwigshafen am Rhein ).

For the reliquary altar of St. Theodor donated in 1778 by Elector Karl Theodor for the parish church of St. Sebastian, Mannheim , Verschaffelt created a Madonna. It is a plaster study for a marble Madonna of the same type that he carried out for the tomb of Bishop Maximilian Anton van der Noot in St. Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent . The Madonna by Michelangelo in the Church of Our Lady in Bruges served as a model .

In 1756, Verschaffelt founded a private drawing academy in Mannheim. Elector Carl Theodor raised it to the official "Académie de peinture" in 1769 and appointed Verschaffelt as director, who trained an entire generation of artists until his death in 1793.

Elector Carl Theodor raised Verschaffelt to the nobility and Pope Pius VI. appointed him Knight of the Order of Christ .

His daughter Ursula de Saint Martin b. von Verschaffelt († 1780), wife of Count Claude de Saint Martin , created a remarkable tomb in the (no longer existing) Augustinian Choir Women Church in Mannheim , which is now in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche (Mannheim) . The historically significant Baroness Josepha Ursula von Herding, born de Saint Martin (1770–1849) was his granddaughter.

Another daughter of Verschaffelt, Seraphina Sylvia, was the wife of the doctor and rector of Heidelberg University, Franz Anton Mai .

  • Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, 1766, by Anna Dorothea Therbusch

  • Bust of Voltaire , 1760

  • Electress Elisabeth Augusta of the Palatinate as Minerva, around 1760/65, marble, Bavarian National Museum

  • Deer in the Schwetzingen palace garden

  • Armory Mannheim

  • Palais Bretzenheim Mannheim

  • Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption in Oggersheim

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Anton von Verschaffelt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon . 11th edition. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1911 ( zeno.org [accessed on November 4, 2019] Lexicon entry “Verschaffelt”).
  2. ↑ Samuel Baur : New Historical-Biographical-Literary Concise Dictionary from the Creation of the World to the End of the Eighteenth Century . Containing the life, character and merits of the greatest and most memorable people of all time, countries and classes. tape 5 . Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1810, Sp. 592 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed November 4, 2019]).

Remarks

  1. ↑ see caption on Wikimedia Commons


personal data
SURNAME Verschaffelt, Peter Anton von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish sculptor and architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1793
Place of death Mannheim