Johann Peter Benkert
Johann Peter Benkert (11 November 1709 - 14 December 1765 or 1769) was a German sculptor of the Frederician Rococo.
Johann Peter Benkert
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- Johann Peter Benkert was born on 11 September 1709. · Bad Neuhaus.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Teachers
- Johann Joseph Kessler · Kaspar Eygen
- Languages
- German
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Johann Peter Benkert (11 November 1709 - 14 December 1765 or 1769) was a German sculptor of the Frederician Rococo.
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Training under Johann Joseph Kessler and Kaspar Eygen is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bamberg and Potsdam. Employment is recorded with Frederick Charles of Schönborn. Work by Johann Peter Benkert is recorded in the collections of Sanssouci Picture Gallery.
He was born in the Neustadt parish of Neuhaus in Neustadt an der Saale to pan smith Johann Benkert. He learned his trade as a sculptor in Johann Joseph Keßler's studio in Königshofen. After completing his apprenticeship he began his years as a journeyman - he is documented in Eichstätt and Munich and may also have been in Vienna. In Eichstätt he was employed by Kaspar Eygen. In the mid 1730s he was journeyman to Franz Anton Schlott in Bamberg. After Schlott's death he married his widow in 1739 - she was the daughter of the court stucco-artist Johann Jakob Vogel. He also worked in Ebrach, Langheim Abbey, Lichtenfels, Forchheim and Gößweinstein. He died in Potsdam.
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Johann Peter Benkert was born in Bad Neuhaus.
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Johann Peter Benkert died in Potsdam.
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• Karl Sitzmann: Künstler und Kunsthandwerker in Ostfranken (= Die Plassenburg, Band 12), Verlag Freunde der Plassenburg, 2. Aufl., Kulmbach 1983, p. 37–40. • Pfarrbrief der Pfarrei Peter & Paul in Potsdam vom 23. September – 1. Dezember 2007.
Johann Peter Benkert, 2003.Allegorie der Bildhauerkunst(der Genius der Kunst)-Benckert-1757--WestflügelBildergalerie Potsdam-Steffen Heilfort
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Johann Peter Benkert, 2002.Allegorie der Malerei(Phantasie)-Auf dem Bild dargestellt die Geschichte der Nymphe Arethusa durch den Flußgott Alpheios-Benckert-Steffen Heilfort
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- 1.Hans Vollmer: 'Benkert, Johann Peter'. In: Thieme-Becker, Vol. 3: Bassano–Bickham. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 330
- 2.Karl Sitzmann. Die Plassenburg. Freunde der Plassenburg. 37. 1957.
- 3.Fantasie in Marmor. Die Wiederherstellung der Neptungrotte im Park Sanssouci ist abgeschlossen. Presse-Information der Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg vom 10. Oktober 2018, abgerufen am 17. Dezember 2023.
- 4.Hauszeichen des Hotels „Zum Einsiedler“. Potsdam Museum, abgerufen am 17. Dezember 2023.
- 5.Robert Dohme: Benkert, Johann Peter. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Vol. 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 335 f.
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