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Kandt, Kevin E.: Some notes on two allegorical drawings attributed to Andreas Schlüter the Younger from the Jacob Kabrun collection in the National Museum of Gdańsk
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Kevin
E. Kandt
Fig. 11. Andreas Schluter and Workshop, Detail of Stucco Putti Group from the Ceiling of the
Drap d’Or Kammer (c. 1700-1701/1708), formerly Berlin Stadtschloss, destroyed in World
War II, repr. Peschken, Wiesinger, Das konigliche Schlofi...
We can also look to Schluter’s superb architectural project the Wartenberg
Palais or Alte Post (1702-04) the faęades of which were once ornamented
with fine, tondo-reliefs depicting female, allegorical personifications holding
attributes carved in sandstone with the ones representing Time or Punc-
tuality and Prudence (figs. 12a-12b) being very interesting comparisons
for our examination in this instance.52 Moreover, depictions of an armil-
lary sphere (like that found on the Allegory of Time drawing) and a cir-
cular zodiac ring-band are found on two reliefs from the Sarcophagus of
Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia (1705), Berlin Cathedral.53 (figs. 13a-13b)
One relief with exceptionally fine and detailed representations of scientific
measuring-instruments from the Sarcophagus for Margrave Philipp Wilhelm
of Brandenburg-Schwedt (c. 1712-1715) in the Berlin Cathedral has been at-
tributed at least to Schluter’s direct influence if not executed from his own
preliminary drawings.54 (fig. 14)
At first glance, the Allegory of Time appears to present some qualities and
characteristics that might complicate a positive attribution to Andreas Schluter.
52 Cornelius Gurlitt, Andreas Schluter, Berlin 1891, p. 161 and fig. 40; H. Ladendorf,
Andreas Schluter, Berlin 1937, p. 98, fig. 120; Eva Muhlbacher, Edith Friindt, Andreas Schluter
und die Plastik Seiner Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Berlin 1964, p. 13, 32; Edith Friindt, Der
Bildhauer Andreas Schluter, Leipzig 1969, p. 60, 67 and figs. 33-34; Kunst in Berlin 1648-1987,
exhibition catalogue, Berlin 1987, p. 86.
53 See the illustrations in Ladendorf, Andreas Schluter..., figs. 141-142.
54 Wilhelm Boeck, Neue Beitrage zu Andreas Schluter als Bildhauer, “Jahrbuch der
Preufiischen Kunstsammlungen” 1934, Bd. 55, p. 252; idem, Zwei Schluter-Sarkophage aus der
Gruft des Berliner Domes, “Jahrbuch der Preufiischen Kunstsammlungen” 1935, Bd. 56, p. 57-58
and illustrations; Kiihn, Andreas Schluter als Bildhauer..., p. 167-168.
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E. Kandt
Fig. 11. Andreas Schluter and Workshop, Detail of Stucco Putti Group from the Ceiling of the
Drap d’Or Kammer (c. 1700-1701/1708), formerly Berlin Stadtschloss, destroyed in World
War II, repr. Peschken, Wiesinger, Das konigliche Schlofi...
We can also look to Schluter’s superb architectural project the Wartenberg
Palais or Alte Post (1702-04) the faęades of which were once ornamented
with fine, tondo-reliefs depicting female, allegorical personifications holding
attributes carved in sandstone with the ones representing Time or Punc-
tuality and Prudence (figs. 12a-12b) being very interesting comparisons
for our examination in this instance.52 Moreover, depictions of an armil-
lary sphere (like that found on the Allegory of Time drawing) and a cir-
cular zodiac ring-band are found on two reliefs from the Sarcophagus of
Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia (1705), Berlin Cathedral.53 (figs. 13a-13b)
One relief with exceptionally fine and detailed representations of scientific
measuring-instruments from the Sarcophagus for Margrave Philipp Wilhelm
of Brandenburg-Schwedt (c. 1712-1715) in the Berlin Cathedral has been at-
tributed at least to Schluter’s direct influence if not executed from his own
preliminary drawings.54 (fig. 14)
At first glance, the Allegory of Time appears to present some qualities and
characteristics that might complicate a positive attribution to Andreas Schluter.
52 Cornelius Gurlitt, Andreas Schluter, Berlin 1891, p. 161 and fig. 40; H. Ladendorf,
Andreas Schluter, Berlin 1937, p. 98, fig. 120; Eva Muhlbacher, Edith Friindt, Andreas Schluter
und die Plastik Seiner Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Berlin 1964, p. 13, 32; Edith Friindt, Der
Bildhauer Andreas Schluter, Leipzig 1969, p. 60, 67 and figs. 33-34; Kunst in Berlin 1648-1987,
exhibition catalogue, Berlin 1987, p. 86.
53 See the illustrations in Ladendorf, Andreas Schluter..., figs. 141-142.
54 Wilhelm Boeck, Neue Beitrage zu Andreas Schluter als Bildhauer, “Jahrbuch der
Preufiischen Kunstsammlungen” 1934, Bd. 55, p. 252; idem, Zwei Schluter-Sarkophage aus der
Gruft des Berliner Domes, “Jahrbuch der Preufiischen Kunstsammlungen” 1935, Bd. 56, p. 57-58
and illustrations; Kiihn, Andreas Schluter als Bildhauer..., p. 167-168.
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