Robert Coppens

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Robert Coppens (* probably before 1550 in Flanders , † after 1618 probably in Northern Germany ) was a Flemish sculptor of the Renaissance , whose workshop in Lübeck is proven.

Life

Double grave in Schwerin Cathedral
Portal of the former grocer company
Relic of the customs officer epitaph in St. Marien zu Lübeck

According to the vast majority of literature, Robert Coppens is said to have come from either Mechelen or Antwerp and was probably a student and / or employee in the workshop of Cornelis Floris . In Lübeck he must have had a large workshop with several employees in the last quarter of the 16th century and during the first decade of the 17th century. In 1597 he lived in the Hartengrube in the cathedral district. His sphere of activity extended from here to Lauenburg in the south, to Schwerin and Ostholstein . His main work is the tomb of Otto von Reventlow (1608) in the north side chapel of the St. Michaelis Church in Lütjenburg. This has a rectangular floor plan and shows a stepped brick gable to the north, which suggests a transept facade. The tomb designed by Coppens has an area of ​​340 × 460 cm.

Works

  • Renaissance portal from the former Schütting (office building) of the shopkeeper in Lübeck, Schüsselbuden 24, from 1587; recovered when the house was demolished in 1904 and transferred to the neo-Gothic parcel post building of the Reichspost from 1905-09 at Braunstraße 1–5 ;
  • Attributed to the epitaph Weltzin († 1590) in the Maria Magdalenen Church in Lauenburg / Elbe ;
  • Tomb for Duke Franz II of Saxony-Lauenburg and family also in the Maria Magdalenen Church in Lauenburg (1590–1600);
  • Renaissance staircase (1595) at Lübeck town hall (attributed to)
  • Double grave (1594–96) for Duke Christoph von Mecklenburg († 1592) and his wife Elisabeth of Sweden († 1597) in Schwerin Cathedral evidenced by payments made at the workshop in Lübeck in the period in question and his monogram as a signature. It was probably created on the basis of a design by the ducal rentmaster Tobias Skopperius;
  • Epitaph Ahlefeldt in the monastery church in Preetz (workshop attribution);
  • Sandstone epitaph from 1597 for the Novgorod driver and businessman Albert Schilling († 1574) in Lübeck Cathedral with a relief of the Entombment of Christ in alabaster, signed with the monogram "RC";
  • The tomb of the Holstein landowner Otto von Reventlow (1608) in the north side chapel of St. Michaelis Church in Lütjenburg with a sandstone relief of the Last Judgment and the kneeling alabaster figures of the donor couple with their four children is one of the gravestones of the late Renaissance in Schleswig- Holstein;
  • Epitaph of the mayor Gotthard von Hoeveln († 1609) in Lübeck's Marienkirche ;
  • Epitaph of councilor Johann Glandorp († 1612) in Lübeck's Marienkirche;
  • Ascribed epitaph of the Mecklenburg Chancellor Daniel Zöllner († 1618) in Lübeck's Marienkirche.

literature

  • Johannes Baltzer ; Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 9–304 (p. 223 ff.). Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 .
  • Hartwig Beseler (ed.): Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 1974.
  • Walter Paatz : The Marienkirche in Lübeck. 2nd Edition. Castle near Magdeburg 1929. P. 32 f.
  • Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns [arr.]: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906.
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898 [reprint: Schwerin 1992]. ISBN 3-910179-06-1 , p. 536 (557 ff.).

Web links

Commons : Robert Coppens  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartwig Beseler (Ed.): Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein. 1974, p. 115.
  2. ↑ Hartwig Beseler (Ed.): Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein. 1974, p. 349.
  3. ↑ Hartwig Beseler (Ed.): Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein. 1974, p. 351.
  4. ↑ Andrea Baresel-Brand: Funerary monuments of northern European princely houses in the Renaissance era 1550-1650. Schwerin: Ludwig 2007 ISBN 3-937719-18-0 , p. 242.
  5. ↑ Robert Coppens . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 377–378 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ Hartwig Beseler (Ed.): Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein. 1974, p. 599.
  7. ↑ Hartwig Beseler (Ed.): Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein. 1974, p. 52.
  8. ↑ Hartwig Beseler (Ed.): Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein. 1974, p. 584.
  9. ↑ Information on the restoration of the customs officer epitaph  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 14, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / baufachinformation.de  
personal data
SURNAME Coppens, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish Renaissance sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Flanders
DATE OF DEATH after 1618
Place of death Northern Germany