Zacharias Hegewald

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Zacharias Hegewald (* 1596 in Chemnitz ; † March 30, 1639 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

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Zacharias Hegewald: Adam and Eve (around 1530)

Hegewald was born in Chemnitz in 1596 as the son of the sculptor Michael Hegewald. In 1626 he married Victoria Walther, the daughter of the sculptor Sebastian Walther (1576-1645). It can therefore be assumed that Hegewald was a pupil of Walther. Even Giovanni Maria Nosseni among his clients. Hegewald was one of the workers in the workshop of the first Dresden Belvedere and later received the title of Churfürstl. Highness sculptor appointed to Dresden . He made numerous works for the Dresden court, including equipment for bridal wagons, pieces for ballets and elevators, but also bar tables for the Electress.

Hegewald created his most important works as a sculptor, so he was already working at the age of 20 in 1616 at Nosseni's tomb . Walter Hentschel suspected that, in addition to the tombstone of Michael Schulze († 1624), the tombstone of Elisabeth von Haugwitz († 1631), formerly placed in the Sophienkirche and now in the Dresden Kreuzkirche , was made by Hegewald, as there are stylistic similarities with that 1638 designed altar of the church in Kötzschenbroda . Hegewald received 130 thalers for the Kötzschenbroda altar, and he was supposed to make a baptismal font for the church. Before its completion, he died at the end of March 1639 at the age of 43. He found his final resting place in a Schwibbogen grave in the Frauenkirchhof ; the grave has not been preserved.

When the Kötzschenbrodaer church was rebuilt in 1885, the altar was demolished and largely became the property of the Antiquities Museum in the Great Garden , where it was destroyed in 1945. Only the altar base with a cartouche has survived, which is now in the Dresden City Museum . The baptismal font, which Hegewald started shortly before his death and which Sebastian Walther finally completed, was given as a gift to the Protestant community in Rosendorf in 1887 .

Many works by the “most talented of these new forces” - meaning the new generation of Dresden artists around 1620 - were lost in 1945, including the Kötzschenbroda Altar and a group of figures of Adam and Eve from around 1630, which were “the first pure nude figures of monumental format in the Dresden Sculpture ”and, as non-church sculptures, for the first time fulfilled a purely artistic purpose. The sandstone sculpture is not identical to another version made of ivory.

literature

  • Walter Hentschel : Dresden sculptor of the 16th and 17th centuries . Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1966.
  • Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , pp. 46, 468.
  • Folke Stimmel, Reinhardt Eigenwill et al .: Stadtlexikon Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, p. 179.

Web links

Commons : Zacharias Hegewald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hegewald was baptized on February 12, 1596. See Folke Stimmel, Reinhardt Eigenwill et al .: Stadtlexikon Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, p. 179.
  2. ^ Walter Hentschel: Dresden sculptors of the 16th and 17th centuries . Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1966, p. 152.
  3. ^ Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones und Epitaphia . Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 171 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ a b Walter Hentschel: Dresden sculptors of the 16th and 17th centuries . Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1966, p. 88.
personal data
SURNAME Hegewald, Zacharias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH baptized February 12, 1596
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1639
Place of death Dresden