Peter Pictorius

Peter Pictorius the Elder (* 1626 on Møn ; † 1685 in Coesfeld ) was a Danish architect and engineer .

Life

Peter Pictorius was born the son of a Lutheran preacher on the Danish island of Møn . It is assumed that his name has a descriptive function (Pictorius = Latin for painter). At a young age he became the Danish legation secretary in London and Rome and entered the Catholic faith in the wake of Queen Christine of Sweden and entered the service of the King of Naples . It is believed that he had his first experience in surveying and drawing there.

When he learned of his father from a serious illness, he traveled back, but fell to 1,654 in Münsterland advertisers of Münster Prince Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen in his hands and had as a common soldier with the rank of ensign artillery in a Kürassiereinheit serve. Afterwards, his education and skills were discovered by chance. In 1660 he married Elisabeth Dörholt.

In 1667 he rose to the rank of princely surveyor and thus the second highest official after Bernhard Spoede . In 1680, after Spoede's death, he was promoted to the highest ranking building official in the country. Due to the foreign government of Maximilian Heinrich , Elector of Cologne, and the rather modest and military way of life of Bishop von Galen, there were no major commissions during his lifetime. Pictorius can only be reliably verified as the executing architect at the Galenschen Kurie am Domplatz in Münster, which was built between 1664 and 1668 based on his designs. The well-known castle design for the Coesfeld Citadel, on the other hand, is likely to be a presentation drawing that the bishop himself probably never saw.

Honors

In 1685, shortly after his death, a grave monument was erected in the Jakobikirche in Coesfeld. In addition, a highly commendable certificate was issued by the Episcopal Government: "... one might wish, however, that one could again have his own kind of qualification and faithful for them, since one had to do gnugsamb to consider him such emolumentis alhie."

Works

• Citadel of Ludgerusburg , Coesfeld
• Citadel of Münster , today's palace gardens
• Marienkapelle (Telgte)
• Vechta fortress
• Defense fortifications at Münster
• Four- winged castle in Fratenhausen
• Design of a monastery with a church
• Galen epitaph
• Jesuit Church , Coesfeld (competition design, not executed)
• House Vornholz

Web links

• Dissertation ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) with curriculum vitae (pp. 11–28) (PDF file; 635 kB)
• The cathedral monastery of St. Paul in Münster