Tönnies Evers the Younger

Singing chorus in St. Aegidien, 1587

Pulpit in Neustadt-Glewe

Town hall bay window (1586)

Woodcut of the city arms

Tönnies ("Antonius") Evers the Younger (* 1550 in Lübeck ; † 1613 ibid) is considered the most important Lübeck carver of the late Renaissance .

Life

Evers was the son of the carver Tönnies Evers . He learned the craft of carving in his father's workshop, but quickly gained independence and a high reputation after the wandering . He was repeatedly a senior man in the carpenter's office and left behind significant interior fittings in Lübeck, some of which, however , burned down in the Second World War as a result of the air raid on Lübeck in March 1942 . His widow married the cabinet-maker and carver Hinrich Wittekop in September 1614 .

Works

Rood screen for the Petrikirche (1585), demolished in the years 1816–18 due to a redesign of the church interior. His organ case (1587–89) in St. Petri burned down with the great organ in 1942.

Bay window on Lübeck town hall (1586)

Rood screen in Lübeck's Aegidienkirche , (1587)

Pulpit for the Marienkirche in Wismar (1587), since 1746 in the Marienkirche in Neustadt-Glewe

The war room of the Lübeck town hall is received after the bombing only with sculptural fragments

Large room in the house of the merchants at Breiten Straße 6–8 (1610–12)

literature

Wilhelm Johnsen: Evers, Tönnies the Younger. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 692 ( digitized version ).
Klaus Hinrichsen: Tönnies Evers 1550-1613. A contribution to the history of the style change in German sculpture around 1600. Preilipper, Hamburg 1937

Web links

Commons : Tönnies Evers the Younger - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ William Read Mountain : Evers, Tonnies (Anthony) d. Ä. - his son Tönnies E. d. J. In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 110–111 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Evers, Tönnies the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Evers, Antonius the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lübeck carver of the late Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH	1550
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	1613
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] William Read Mountain : Evers, Tonnies (Anthony) d. Ä. - his son Tönnies E. d. J. In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 110–111 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).