Thomas Quellinus

Thomas Quellinus ( * ca March 1661 in Antwerp, † September 1709 ) was a Flemish sculptor primarily active in Copenhagen of the Baroque from the family of artists Quellinus.

Life

He was born the son of Arthur Quellinus this year, where he also received his first professional instruction. After that, he worked in London with his brother Arthur Quellinus III. From mid- 1689 he moved to Copenhagen to monitor the execution of the jobs created by his father tomb of Field Marshal Hans von Schack in the Trinity Kirke, and then there was in our own workshop operates. The Flemish baroque sculptor workshops were not small businesses, but organized by today's standards as a great craft. In this respect, Thomas Quellinus was certainly the design and management skills. His signature can thus be safest recognize the terracotta modeled by himself preliminary designs, some of which have received in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels. However, in the execution, he returned to monitored by him journeymen and assistants, who earned himself an independent regional reputation partly later than his students, such as Hieronymus Hassberg in Lübeck. Quellinus gained so rapidly in northern Europe and a name from his workshop come alone over 25 major large grave times. 1707 he returned to Antwerp. The tomb Schack, the Quellinus had led to Denmark was in 1728 severely damaged in the fire of Copenhagen together with his own works of Thomas Quellinus. Apart from its remains and the bust from the tomb of Bishop Henrik Aalborg Bornemann has just continued to receive anything on the main site of his work. The serial production, the workshop was recognized in art history only since the mid-1980s and led to the confirmation of attributions. Thus, there are clear similarities between the allegories in the Cathedral of Aarhus and the garden sculpture in St. Petersburg.

Work

Grave times and epitaphs

Quellinus was mainly famous for his tomb production. He created a new form, the " Masked " epitaph, which renounced far stronger than the traditional form to elements of devotional picture and served throughout the pronounced and outward self-presentation of the founders. Many of his glorious grace grave times today churches throughout Denmark. In the cathedral of Aarhus Quellinus created with the Marselis Chapel, the tomb of Constantine Marselis, Sophie Charisius and Peder Rodsteen, the largest surviving baroque tomb in Denmark. Other works can be found in the church of the Danish nobleman Jørgen Auning for Skeel (1656-1695), who had married in 1691, the 13 -year-old Benedicte Margrethe Brockdorff from Holstein. At the bishop and Baroque poet Thomas Kingo remember his epitaph in Slangerup and his grave chapel in the Fraugde Kirke in Odense.

Other epitaphs of Thomas Quellinus are in churches in Schleswig -Holstein and Mecklenburg. For the Lübeck Cathedral, he created the prince-bishop's tomb for August Friedrich of Schleswig -Holstein -Gottorp and the grave chapel for the Danish chancellor Johann Hugo von Lente. As a result of the Fredenhagen - altar Quellinus received four orders for epitaphs in St. Mary 's Church in Lübeck: for the alderman Hartwich of Stiten, manufactured in 1699, the councilor Adolf Brüning, manufactured in 1706, the mayor Hieronymus of Dorne († 1704) and the Mayor Anton Winckler (1707 ), which remained as a single undamaged. The others were first deliberately neglected in the first phase of reconstruction and only restored in stages from 1973 to the extent possible.

According to the draft of Quellinus the grave chapel and the tomb for the family von Brockdorff on Kletkamp at the Church of Kirchnüchel in Holstein as well as the sarcophagus of the Danish High Chancellor Conrad von Reventlow in Schleswig Cathedral was built.

In Mecklenburg is located in the Cathedral Guestrower the epitaph of the deceased in 1707 ducal Medizinalrates Friedrich Gottfried luck.

Fred Hagen Altar

His greatest and most important work, however, is the Fredenhagen - altar, a Baroque high altar, which he created for the Marienkirche in Lübeck ( erected in 1697, dedicated on August 15, 1697 ). Named after its founder, the merchant Thomas Fredenhagen altar of white and black marble and porphyry was heavily damaged during the bombing of Lübeck and the subsequent firing of the Marienkirche in March 1942; quite the recovery enabled ruins were dismantled in 1958 by order of the church council at the request of then Bishop Heinrich Meyer. An initially foreseen in the decision-implementation in the Greve Raden chapel in the north tower, which was also a condition for the approval of the State Memorial Committee of 7 July 1958 crash, was not realized; the items were instead placed in St. Peter's Church, from where they returned in the late 1970s. Items such as the Last Supper and the Crucifixion of the predella group in 1977 partly restored in the context of the exhibition in Hamburg Baroque sculpture in northern Germany, and in 1978 set up in the ambulatory of St. Mary's Church. Discussions on a reconstruction of the altar stop. The altar belonging to the bust of the founder Thomas Fredenhagen is located together with the plaster model now in Lübeck's St. Annen Museum.

Predella

Bust of the founder in the St. Annen- Museum ( 2009)

Garden Sculpture

In Peter the Great's summer landscaped garden (Saint Petersburg ), there are still three statues of Thomas Quellinus. It is believed that these (identified as Minerva or Athena, Ceres and nymph or Flora (?) ) Are possibly the remnant of a larger group.

The Wilanów Palace is a woman's bust of Thomas Quellinus. The debate about the attribution of other sculptures in this castle in Warsaw is not yet complete.