Gottlieb Heymüller

Training under Georg Rafael Donner is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bamberg and Potsdam. Positions recorded include court artist. Work by Gottlieb Heymüller is recorded in the collections of Sanssouci Picture Gallery and Chinese House.

He was born in Gleink Abbey, Upper Austria to court master Johann Florian Heymüller (died 28 July 1754). On 22 February 1740 in Bamberg he married Maria Elisabeth, the daughter of Johann Jakob Vogel, stucco-artist to the Prussian court - this made him brother-in-law of Johann Peter Benkert. He worked with Benkert in a shared workshop, making it difficult to identify autograph works by Heymüller. He also worked in Kersbach and Memmelsdorf. Probably following a call from Benkert, in 1746 Heymüller moved to Potsdam, where he later died. Both he and Benkert lived in the parish of Peter and Paul in the city. Among other collaborations between the two artists are the life-size figures of tea-drinking and music-making Chinese figures arranged around the Chinese House (built 1755-1764) in Sanssouci park.

• Gable relief on the Stadtschloss (deposited during the demolition of the ruins), 1751 • Attic figures on the Stadtschloss (partially preserved), 1750s • Attic figures of the Rathaus (replaced by copies by Horst Misch), 1753 • Jewelled vases in Rococo form on the attic of the uniformly-designed town houses at 9a-11 Schlossstraße and 10/11 Am Neuen Markt, 1752 • Attic vases of the house designed by Knobelsdorff at 13 Henning-von-Tresckow-Straße, 1752 • Sculptures on the obelisk in the Alter Markt - reliefs of the Hohenzollern rulers from Elector Frederick William to King Frederick the Great (replaced by portraits of Potsdam architects during the 1979 reconstruction), figures of orators, sphinxes, 1753-1755 - collaboration with Benkert and Benjamin Giese • Figures of legionaries and reliefs, Plögerscher Gasthof, 1754 • Marble sculptures for the Sanssouci Picture Gallery, 1755-1763; collaboration with Benkert, Felice Cocci and Giuseppe Girola • Chinese sculptures on the Chinese House, Sanssouci, 1755-1756 • Statue decoration of the Neues Palais’ (studio works), from 1763 onwards