Sebastian Walther

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First Belvedere in Dresden, on which Walther was involved as an architect

Sebastian Walther (* 1576 in Dresden ; † August / September 1645 there ) was a German architect and sculptor .

Life

Sebastian Walther was born in 1576 in Dresden into a middle-class family . In 1605 Walther himself received citizenship. As early as 1608 he worked as a student of Giovanni Maria Nosseni for the electoral court. In that year he made a marble crucifix for the castle chapel (no longer verifiable today). When Nosseni died in 1620, Walther was his successor as "elector architect and statuarius". He was also given oversight of all marble , serpentine and alabaster quarries in the country, as well as pearl fishing.

Walther died in 1645 at the age of 69. He found his final resting place on September 3rd of that year next to his son-in-law Zacharias Hegewald in a Schwibbogen grave in the old Frauenkirchhof ; the grave has not been preserved.

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Four men recovering and securing the plastic Man of Sorrows by Sebastian Walther from the destroyed Frauenkirche

The first known work by Sebastian Walther is a marble crucifix created in 1608 for the Dresden Palace Chapel . Walther also embossed this in wax at the same time . In 1616, together with the sculptor Zacharias Hegewald, he completed the Nosseni epitaph , which the sculptor Nosseni had built for himself and his three wives in the Sophienkirche . It consisted of the statue of the Scourged Christ ( Ecce homo ). Above it was a bas-relief depicting the Last Judgment , while Nosseni's three women kneeled down on the left and Nossenis on the right. On behalf of Elector Johann Georg I , he created the Wolf Column Friedewald in 1618 .

After Nosseni's death in 1620, Sebastian Walther (second cousin of the sculptor Hans Walther ) took over the construction of the First Belvedere, which began in 1589 . This was designed as a multi-storey pleasure house on the maiden bastion for the festivities of the court, whereby the construction time lasted more than 60 years. Until its destruction in 1747, the Belvedere was one of the sights of Dresden. In 1624 Walther received the order for the tomb of Electress Sophie , the widow of Christian I , the great Brandenburg coat of arms and also to produce thirteen provincial shields from alabaster. In addition, he was entrusted with the modeling of her statue, which he was still working on in 1628. In the meantime, the monument did not come into being, as the ore caster Hans Wilhelm Hilliger presumably failed in the casting. Walther's last known work was an alabaster relief, completed in 1640, depicting the announcement of the birth of Christ.

Works by Walther can now be found in the Dresden City Gallery and the Friedenskirche Dresden-Löbtau, among others . Here is an alabaster relief from the epitaph of Gertrud Helffrich († 1629), which originally formed the middle relief of an extensive epitaph. In addition , the grave monument to David Peifer made by Sebastian Walther in the form of a Man of Sorrows and the tombstone of Elisabeth von Haugwitz († 1631) can be found in the Dresden Kreuzkirche .

literature

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Walther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ A b Robert Bruck : The Sophienkirche in Dresden. Their history and their art treasures. Verlag H. von Keller, Dresden 1912.
  2. ↑ a b Hermann Arthur Lier :  Walther . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 92-95.
  3. ↑ Sebastian Walther. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved July 4, 2013.
  4. ^ Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones und Epitaphia . Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 171 ( online in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ Frank Andert: Stone wolf recalls hunting 390 years ago . In: Saxon newspaper . April 24, 2008 ( saechsische.de ).
  6. ^ State capital Dresden - culture and sport - museums. Archived from the original on April 17, 2012 ; accessed on January 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1576
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 1645 or September 1645
Place of death Dresden