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Andreas Schlüter

German sculptor and architect (–)

For the film of his sure, see Andreas Schlüter (film).

Andreas Schlüter ( – c. June )[1] was a German baroque carver and architect, active in primacy Holy Roman Empire of say publicly German Nation, the Polish–Lithuanian Democracy, and the Russian Tsardom.

Biography

Andreas Schlüter was born probably enclose Hamburg.[2] His early life anticipation obscure as at least connect different persons of that honour are documented. The records dominate St. Michaelis Church, Hamburg famous that an Andreas Schlüter, hug of sculptor Gerhart Schlüter, confidential been baptized there on 22 May Documents from Danzig/Gdańsk (Royal Prussia) reported that an Andreas Schlüter (senior) had worked – in Danzig's Jopengasse lane (today's ulica Piwna).

Possibly born bay , an Andres Schliter shambles recorded as apprentice on 9 May by the mason's academy. Other sources state as crop of birth.[3]

He probably did lash out several years abroad as Artificer. His first work, in , may have been epitaphs make known the Dukes Sambor and Mestwin in the dome of Pelplin monastery.

Schlüter's first known bradawl was the decoration of character facade of the Danzig Commune Chapel, in He later actualized statues for King John Tierce Sobieski's Wilanów Palace in Warsaw and sepulchral sculptures in Zhovkva. In , he moved abide by Warsaw and made the footprint reliefs and sculptural work mention Krasiński Palace.

Schlüter was freely permitted to Berlin in by Eberhard von Danckelmann to work makeover court sculptor at the foundry (Zeughaus) for Elector Frederick Tierce. His sculpted decorations are well-ordered masterpiece of baroque expression spell pathos. While the more ocular reliefs on the outside locked away to praise fighting, the statues of dying warriors in authority interior denounced war and gave an indication of his dovish religious beliefs (he is articulate to have been a Mennonite).

Travelling through Italy in , he studied the work be defeated masters like Michelangelo Buonarroti opinion Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Schlüter besides worked as an architect gift built many state buildings agreement Berlin in his role primate "Hofbaumeister" (Court Architect), which crystalclear lost when one tower showed signs of a weak substructure.

He also served as jumped-up of the Prussian Academy slant Arts from to , puzzle out which he began concentrating proposal sculpting again, as "Hofbildhauer" (Court Sculptor). His most important rider sculpture is that of magnanimity "Great Elector", Frederick William mimic Brandenburg, cast in and be at "Lange Brücke" near leadership Berlin City Palace, now distant in the honor court a while ago Charlottenburg Palace.

The Berlin Propensity Palace, and many of empress works, were partially destroyed get ahead of bombing in World War II and by the subsequent Commie regime. A similar fate likely befell the Amber Room, troublefree between and , Schlüter's uttermost famous work of architecture.

In , Schlüter's fame brought him to work for Tsar Pecker I of Russia in Guardian Petersburg, where he died be advisable for an illness after creating a number of designs.

Together with Johann Friedrich Braunstein, he designed the Expensive Palace and Monplaisir Palace unexciting Peterhof Palace Complex. Also representation city's oldest building, Kikin Engross, and the reliefs at honourableness Summer Palace are attributed constitute him. This way he became an important figure of Petrine Baroque.

Extant works

  • Facade of class Royal Chapel, Gdańsk,
  • Sculptures private detective the facade of Wilanów Keep, Warsaw, after
  • Sculptures on illustriousness pediment of Krasiński Palace, Warsaw, –83, –
  • Epitaph of Adam Zygmunt Konarski, St.

    Mary's Cathedral chide the Assumption, Frombork near Gdańsk, after

  • Altar and crucifix worry church, Węgrów near Warsaw, –
  • Altar in Czerniaków church, Warsaw,
  • Portrait bishop Jan Małachowski in Wawel Cathedral, Kraków
  • Aepulchral sculptures love the Sobieski family, Zhovkva fasten Lviv, –93
  • Equestrian statue of Constituent Frederick William, courtyard of Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, –,[4] with pure copy in the Berlin Bode-Museum
  • Sculptures on the facade of rectitude Zeughaus in Berlin, –
  • Berlin Mansion, –
  • Amber Room (reconstruction) in magnanimity Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg,
  • Pulpit, Unguarded.

    Mary's Church, Berlin,

  • Sarcophagi explain Friedrich I and Sophia City, King and Queen in Preussen in the Berlin Cathedral

References

External links

  • "Schluter, Andreas"&#;. Encyclopedia Americana.
  • "Schlüter, Andreas"&#;. Encyclopædia Britannica.

    Vol.&#;24 (11th&#;ed.). p.&#;

  • Nicolai, Bernd (), "Schlüter, Andreas", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol.&#;23, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp.&#;–;&#;(full text online)
  • Bruck, Robert (), "Andreas Schlüter", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol.&#;55, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp.&#;–
  • Biography, by Heinz Ladendorf,
  • Article in Morgenpost newspaper
  • : Schlüter bio at Zeughaus
  • English site flick through Kikin's Palace (Mansion House)