Peter Laporterie

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Peter Laporterie (* 1702 in Bordeaux ; † 1785 ) was a sculptor in the time of European absolutism .

Chapel at the Falkenlust hunting lodge, Brühl
Poppelsdorf Palace (18th century)
Grotto in the park of Wilhelmsthal Palace

Life

Training and stays

Peter Laporterie learned his trade in the province of Holland and in Paris . His grotto work , for which he was commissioned primarily for the palace complexes that were being built by German princes , was particularly famous .

The fact that Laporterie was listed as a sculptor of the 18th century attested in Cologne allows the conclusion that he was registered with one of the guilds there, but no information was given in this regard. During the renovations in the interior of the Cologne City Hall , which began in 1750 , especially the redesign of the room known as the Shell Hall because of its Rococo ornamentation, Laporteries Name was not mentioned as one of the masters involved.

Works and places of activity

In 1730 he was in the service of the Elector Clemens August of Bavaria , for which he issued a lush mussel decoration Chapel in the park of Brühl hunting lodge Falkenlust erected. The “shell chapel ”, consecrated to St. Maria Aegyptiaca after the building was completed , had the floor plan of a small octagon and was a chapel decorated in the style of a grotto. In contrast to Laporteries, it was also retained for the work carried out by Clemens August in today 's Poppelsdorf district of Bonn .

The sculptor, who has been in Bonn since 1735, worked for seven years on furnishing the shell hall in the Elector's Poppelsdorf Palace . This work, completed in 1753, is referred to as his main work and emphasizes that the decoration "was an extremely refined arrangement" and the production and use of the plant and animal jewelry from shells and corals "showed the highest mastery of the brittle material". The work was considered to be much larger and more significant than any of his other three works.

In 1905, on the subject of the shell hall, a speech by a Prussian member of parliament in Mainz stated that the water basins in the wall niches had been removed as early as 1820 and that the technical masterpiece Laporteries had " not been dealt with gently when setting up the mineralogical collection in this castle wing, so that she suffered considerable damage ”.

Other works by Laporteries were created in the park of Wilhelmsthal Castle, built between 1743 and 1761, and in the grounds of Castle zu Wied .

In 1785 Peter Laporterie lived in his own house in Bonn's Wenzelgasse. However, it is not known where he died or where he was buried.

literature

  • Hans Vogts : The Cologne house until the beginning of the 19th century. Cologne, 1966 (extended new edition of the 1914 edition)
  • Wolfgang Drösser: Brühl. History - pictures - facts - connections. Rolf Köhl, Brühl 2005, ISBN 3-921300-05-3 .
  • Paul Clemen : On behalf of the Provincial Association of the Rhine Province, Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz, in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt und der Landkreis Bonn , Volume V, III. Druck und Verlag L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1905, reprint 1981. ISBN 3-590-32113-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hans Vogts, The Cologne House up to the Beginning of the 19th Century , Volume II, “Sculptors and carvers attested in Cologne from the end of the 14th to the end of the 18th century”, page 695
  2. ^ Wolfgang Drösser: Brühl. History - Pictures - Facts - Connections , p. 98.
  3. ^ Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the city and the district of Bonn , Schloss Poppelsdorf Muschelsaal, p. 247 ff
personal data
SURNAME Laporterie, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sculptor in the time of European absolutism
DATE OF BIRTH 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH 1785