Artyści grudziądzcy w XVII i XVIII wieku. Część 2: Malarze i rzeźbiarze

• Authors: Łyczak Bartłomiej

Title variants

DE

Graudenzer Künstler im 17. und 18.Jh., T. 2 Maler und Bildhauer

EN

The Grudziądz artists in the 17th and 18th c. Part two: Painters and sculptors

• Languages of publication: PL DE

Abstracts

EN

The article is a continuation of the study on artists active in Grudziądz in the 17th and 18th centuries. Introductory information and findings relating to goldsmiths were included in part one. The primary source basis is, as in previous case, provided by extracts from the registries of births, deaths and marriages of the Lutheran and Catholic parishes, kept in the Evangelisches Zentralarchiv in Berlin and the Archiwum Akt Dawnych Diecezji Toruńskiej in Toruń. A painter, unfortunately unknown by name, was listed in Grudziądz already in 1603 as an owner of one of the municipal gardens. In the last quarter of the 17th c., master Krzysztof Szymankiewicz baptized his children in the Catholic church of St. Nicholas. According to the story cited by Xavier Froelich, in 1698, he denounced a bungler named Lau who operated in the town. As a punishment for illegal activities, the bungler was ordered by the councillors to decorate the town hall turret at his own expense and to abandon the ill-practice. Other masters of painting were listed in Grudziądz in the 18th c.: in the 1740s – Paul Pater, whereas in the 1760s and 1770s – Johann Michael Kirchhoff. After the town was subordinated to the Prussian rule, other painters, i.a. George Caspar Fleichmann, Daniel Wilhelm Weinstein and Johann Friedrich Peters, were active at that time. Unfortunately, at the present state of research, it is impossible to link any known paintings with these artists. Probably at least some of them dealt only with typical craft works, usually associated with the decoration of facades and building interiors. The Jesuit church of St. Francis Xavier was probably decorated by artists associated with the order: Ignacy Steiner, Stanisław Sienicki and Zygmunt Schönhoff. There is no information on any sculptor residing permanently in Grudziądz. The altar in the Lutheran church was made around 1660 by Andrzej Rosiński, while the altars and pulpit in the church of St. Francis Xavier were prepared by Joseph Anton Kraus, who began his work in 1721. This sculptor, previously recorded in Berlin, worked mainly for Count zu Dohna in the palace in Słobity; he was also a creator of works of art in the churches in Royal Prussia and Warmia.

• Publisher: Muzeum w Grudziądzu
• Journal: Rocznik Grudziądzki
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 27
• Pages: 13-20

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Łyczak Bartłomiej