Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper

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Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper

Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper (born April 28, 1733 in Münster , † October 29, 1800 in Nuremberg ) was a German architect . He is considered an important representative of classicism in Germany .

life and work

The ancestors of Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper lived in Rüthen , which was known at the time for the Rüthener sandstone . Wilhelm Ferdinand's father, Johann Bernhard Lipper, was the chief war commissioner of the Prince-Bishop of Münster. His mother, Maria Hermine Theodora, was the daughter of the famous Munster builder Gottfried Laurenz Pictorius . Wilhelm Ferdinand's grandfather, Johann Jodocus Lipper, secret secretary of Prince-Bishop Friedrich Christian von Plettenberg , was born on February 4, 1652 in Rüthen.

Lipper first completed a theological training and became a canon in Fritzlar , Minden and Vechta . After Johann Conrad Schlaun's death in 1774, he was given the task of continuing the construction work on Muenster Castle and completing the interior. The entrance hall, the stairwell and the ballroom in classicist shapes were created based on his designs, for which he received a lot of praise and recognition in his time. Under Prince-Bishop Maximilian Franz of Austria , however, the work was only continued on a reduced basis from 1784 and finally stopped entirely. The interior fittings designed by Lipper have not been preserved.

At the instigation of the Minister of State Franz von Fürstenberg , Lipper carried out the conversion of the municipal meat hall into a comedy house from 1773 to 1776 (demolished in 1894).

In 1777 Lipper was appointed Oberlandbaudirektor with a fixed salary of 500 Reichstalers. A year later he built two gatehouses at the Maxtor on the Wallpromenade . He became a sought-after architect of the nobility; His designs include the unrealized reconstruction plans for Wocklum Castle and the Romberger Hof in Münster , which was partially integrated as a ruin in the new building of the Münster City Theater .

In 1790 Lipper took over the construction of the Teutonic Order Church of St. Elisabeth in Nuremberg , which Franz Ignaz Michael Neumann had begun in 1785 , which he built according to his own designs after laying down the parts that had already been completed. Before the completion of the church in 1802, he died in Nuremberg.

Clemens Lipper (1742–1813), a younger brother of Wilhelm Ferdinand, was also a clergyman and architect. He lived as a canon in Osnabrück and Münster.

Lipper's most famous students include the brothers Clemens August and Adolph von Vagedes .

literature

  • The descendants of Peter Pictorius , supplement to the Westphalia magazine , Münster September 1933
  • Klaus Bussmann : Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper. A contribution to the history of early classicism in Münster (Westphalia, 18th special issue). Aschendorf, Münster 1972, ISBN 3-402-05970-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Eberhard Henneböle : Steinhauer, picture carver and painter in Rüthen after the Thirty Years' War until around 1750, Lippstadt district, 1974 p. 22