Joachim
Toppmann

sculptor

born Magdeburg

 1616/17, together with his journeyman Jörg Müller von Rosa in Alsace, he made the figures of Justice and Wisdom above the central portal of the Wolff town hall, based on designs by Christoph Jamnitzer. The sculptures were replaced in 1889 by copies by Georg Leistner; the originals are in a depot of the MStN. Lit.: Thieme-Becker; Mummenhoff, Town Hall, p. 134; Mende, Town Hall 1979; C. Maué, 1997, p. 217f.; Masa, Freiskulpturen 1995, p. 50. (quoted from the Nuremberg Artists' Lexicon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb)

Period: 17th c., 16th c.

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architectural sculpture, secular building
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