Wilhelm Schorigus the Younger

Wilhelm Schorigus the Younger (baptized on April 1, 1635 in Braunschweig ; † buried on September 1, 1687 , ibid), also Schurrius, Schurig, Sorgius , was a Braunschweig sculptor.

Life

Wilhelm Schorigus the Elder J. was born as the illegitimate son of Wilhelm Schorigus the Elder. Ä. and the widow of Ulrich Stamm , a Braunschweig sculptor, and acquired new citizenship in 1658 in the old town , a soft part of Braunschweig. This purchase had been made cheaper because he had previously served the city as a musketeer . He then probably entered his father's workshop as a journeyman after he had finished his apprenticeship and wandering . On June 7, 1662, after the death of his father, Justus Schüler , his mother married an organist at St. Andrew's Church . After his father's death, he became the owner of the house on Gördelingerstraße . On November 22, 1658, he married Katharina Hofmann , the widow of the pewter founder Heinrich Lohmann . After the death of his first wife, he married Anna Margarete Busse on September 16, 1672. His stepson Johann Heinrich Lohmann , who was an apprentice in his workshop, complained in the fifth year of his training that a journeyman's certificate was required to be handed out . When he died in 1687, he left behind minor children and two stepchildren.

Johann Christian Schurries , another Braunschweig sculptor, was the grandson of Wilhelm Schorigus the Elder. J.

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Schorigus d. J. received national recognition within a relatively short time. In 1665 he was commissioned to artistically authorize the high altar of the Sankt-Johannis-Baptista-Kirche , which the council of the city of Groß Salze (district of Bad Salzelmen , now Schönbeck in Saxony-Anhalt) had made by the Magdeburg sculptor G. Giegas for 44 thalers revise. The council found it too bulky and poorly designed. The written order has been preserved, the extent to which Schorigus made changes to the altar has not been researched.

The wooden tomb of Georg von Stauff († July 11, 1673) in the Brunswick Cathedral , the city coat of arms of the mint in Brunswick, the St. Mary's altar of the former monastery church in Grauhof near Goslar , which was taken over in the new building from 1718, are named Schorigus d. Attributed to J.

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries , p. 669, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7
• Paul Jonas Meier : The sculptor's handicrafts in the city of Braunschweig since the Reformation. In: Workpieces from the museum, archive and library of the City of Braunschweig VIII., Appelhans, Braunschweig 1936.

Web links

• Images of the Marien Altar in the monastery church in the Grauhof