Peter Thumb

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Peter Thumb (* 18th December 1681 in Bezau , Vorarlberg , † 4. March 1766 in Konstanz ) was a builder of the Rococo , in southern Baden , in the Black Forest , in Alsace , in Upper Swabia , on Lake Constance and in Switzerland worked.

Life

Peter Thumb was a son of the Vorarlberg builder Michael Thumb . He first apprenticed to the stonemason Michael Berbig in Au and then worked for his future father-in-law, the master builder Franz Beer . The first major works of his own were the Ebersmünster abbey church in Alsace and the church and library of the St. Peter monastery in the Black Forest . In 1725 he received citizenship in Constance . In 1737 he became a member of the city's Grand Council.

The Birnau pilgrimage church , which he built for the Salem monastery in 1747–1750 , is considered his masterpiece. There Thumb created solid architecture, in combination with the playful figurative decoration of Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer and the ceiling frescoes by Gottfried Bernhard Göz an impressive total work of art. Due to its picturesque location on Lake Constance, the Birnau is today a magnet for tourists and a main attraction on the Upper Swabian Baroque Route . With the Abbey Library of St. Gallen Thumb built one of the most important library rooms of the Baroque , which also today is a magnet for visitors and with the entire monastery complex of the Abbey of St. Gall to the World Heritage Site of UNESCO counts. The east facade and other parts of the monastery church in St. Gallen were built by Johann Michael Beer von Bildstein, presumably based on a design by Peter Thumb.

Effect and appreciation

In Freiburg im Breisgau , in St. Peter (Black Forest) , in Friedenweiler , in Rust (Baden) , in Waldkirch , Cologne , Konstanz , Hilzingen , Singen (Hohentwiel), Waldshut-Tiengen , Weingarten (Württemberg) and Bregenz was a road to Named Peter Thumb. The parish church in Schwerzen is said to have been built according to his model (one suspected already based on a design by him, but there is no evidence for it). The steeple of the Schuttern monastery church from 1722-23 is also attributed to him (but no evidence). The St. Gallen Abbey District is part of UNESCO and World Heritage in Switzerland .

literature

  • Hans-Martin Gubler: The Vorarlberg baroque master builder Peter Thumb. 1681-1766. A contribution to the history of southern German baroque architecture . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1972 ISBN 3-7995-5016-X
  • Adolf Hacker: Peter Thumb and the Vorarlberg Cathedral Scheme. A cross-section of building history , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 68th year 1941/42, pp. 7–22 ( digitized version )
  • Norbert Lieb: The Vorarlberg baroque master builders . 3. Edition. Schnell and Steiner, Munich a. a. 1976 ISBN 3-7954-0410-X
  • Rudolf Werneburg: Peter Thumb and his family. Contributions to southern German church architecture . (= Studies on German art history; 182) Heitz, Strasbourg 1916 (also dissertation from the University of Strasbourg under the title St. Peter on the Black Forest and Ebersmünster )

Web links

Commons : Peter Thumb  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ in Cologne and Cologne-Kalk as Thumbstraße
  2. ↑ in Bregenz also only Thumbstraße
  3. ↑ Dr. Martin Ruch, Luisa Galiato, Ekkehard Klem: Monastery and parish church Mariae Himmelfahrt Schuttern in the municipality of Friesenheim . In: Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2003 (Ed.): ISBN 3-89870-121-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Thumb, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rococo builder
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Bezau
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1766
Place of death Constancy