Peter Franz Bunsen

Peter Franz Bunsen (also: Frantz Peter Bundsen ;) (* around 1725 in Hanover ; † March 20, 1795 there ) was a German court - goldsmith and silver master.

Life

Peter Franz Bunsen was born in Hanover, but took the oath of citizenship in the then still independent Calenberger Neustadt .

In 1766 Bunsen was active in the old town of Hanover and in 1768 he was the head of the office . According to the master list of November 24th of the same year, he exercised this office at the same time as the court jeweler Johann Christian Friedrich Zell . Also in the old town, Bunsen was granted civil rights as a court goldsmith and silver worker .

Works

Bunsen's works can be found today, among other things

in Hannover:
- in the August Kestner Museum
- in the Historical Museum Hanover
- in the Kreuzkirche ;
- as well as in the St. Nikolai Church in Bothfeld ;
in New York City : Metropolitan Museum of Art

literature

Wolfgang Scheffler : Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony. Dates, works, signs. Volume 2: Hameln - Zellerfeld. de Gruyter, Berlin 1965, pp. 732f., 763
Waldemar R. Röhrbein : BUNSEN, Peter Franz. 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. 79; online through google books
Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Bunsen, Peter Franz. 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. 99.

Web links

Franz Peter Bunsen: Kettle drums (2010.138.1-.4) . In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000 (English), from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City page, last accessed September 4, 2013

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Waldemar R. Röhrbein: BUNSEN ... (see literature)
↑ Wolfgang Scheffler: Frantz Peter Bunsen (also Bundsen) in ders .: Goldschmiede Lower Saxony ... (see literature), p. 732
^ Klaus Mlynek : Calenberger Neustadt. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 105f.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Bunsen ... (see literature)
^ Wolfgang Scheffler: Johann Christian Friedrich Zell (e). In: Goldschmiede Lower Saxony ... (see literature), pp. 732, 736; online through google books
↑ see web links

personal data
SURNAME	Bunsen, Peter Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bunsen, Franz Peter; Bundsen, FP; Bundsen, Frantz Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German court goldsmith and silver master
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	March 20, 1795
Place of death	Hanover

[HBL-1] Waldemar R. Röhrbein: BUNSEN ... (see literature)

[2] Wolfgang Scheffler: Frantz Peter Bunsen (also Bundsen) in ders .: Goldschmiede Lower Saxony ... (see literature), p. 732

[3] Klaus Mlynek : Calenberger Neustadt. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 105f.

[SLH-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Bunsen ... (see literature)

[5] Wolfgang Scheffler: Johann Christian Friedrich Zell (e). In: Goldschmiede Lower Saxony ... (see literature), pp. 732, 736; online through google books

[6] see web links