Achilles Schlöth

Achilles Schlöth (* 1858 in Basel ; † 1904 there ) was a Swiss sculptor .

life and work

Achilles Schlöth, the youngest son of the locksmith and stove manufacturer Friedrich Ludwig Schlöth and Helene née Georg, trained as a sculptor in Basel in the studio of his uncle Ferdinand Schlöth (from whom he later inherited the studio furnishings). In 1883 he continued his education in Rome and opened his own studio in Basel in 1886. 1886–1888, thanks to a direct commission, he was able to create the portrait medallions of men of science and technology on the stock exchange wing of the main post office in Basel , which are still preserved today. In 1887 he made a monument bust for the politician Wilhelm Klein . Other works, including the bust of a priest and the statue of a fisherman's boy from 1886, have been preserved in private ownership. Achilles Schlöth also executed works designed by his uncle Ferdinand Schlöth, for example a bust of Karl Sarasin (now in the Basel Historical Museum ) or the models of the basilisks for the Wettstein Bridge . In 1890, a figurative model for a plastic decoration of the pillars of the Wettstein Bridge in Basel was not executed. One of Achilles Schlöth's employees was Jacques Gürtler (1848–1926), who later became Max Leu's teacher . The latter also created the monument bust of Johann Peter Hebel in front of the Peterskirche in Basel, for which Achilles Schlöth had also been considered.

Schlöth was a member of the Basel Artists Society.

Familiar

Achilles Schlöth remained unmarried. The cookbook author Amalie Schneider-Schlöth was an older half-sister of his.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ INSA. Inventory of modern Swiss architecture 1850–1920: Basel , Basel 1986, p. 153 ( digitized version ); Georg Germann : Die Basler Hauptpost , in: Unser Kunstdenkmäler 23 (1972), pp. 239–255, here p. 247f. ( Digitized version ).
2. ^ Basler Chronik, in: Basler Jahrbuch 1889 ( Memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ); Fritz Brändlin , Wilhelm Klein: Government Councilor of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and Switzerland. National Council. A picture of life, Basel 1907, p. 94.
3. ↑ Swiss Art Exhibition in Bern, List of Art Objects, Bern 1888, No. 137. Retrieved on January 11, 2019 . 
4. ^ Schweizerische Bauzeitung ( Memento from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); Catalog of the rotating exhibition of the Swiss Art Association in the Kunsthalle in Basel. Schweizerischer Kunstverein, 1886, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; accessed on June 5, 2020 (original website no longer available). 
5. ↑ Schweizerische Bauzeitung ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Dorothea Christ : painter and sculptor of the Basler Künstler Gesellschaft, 1850–1950 , Kunsthalle Basel, July 13 to September 14, 1980, Basel 1980, p. 94.
7. ↑ https://www.baslerstadtbuch.ch Albert Gessler: Hebelhaus and Hebeldenkmal, in: Basler Jahrbuch 1901 .

literature

• Dorothea Christ : painter and sculptor of the Basler Künstler Gesellschaft, 1850–1950, Basel 1980.
• Georg Germann : The Basler Hauptpost , in: Unser Kunstdenkmäler 23 (1972), p. 247.
• Stefan Hess / Tomas Lochman (eds.): Classical beauty and patriotic heroism. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891), catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Skulpturhalle Basel, Basel 2004.
• Stefan Hess: Between Winckelmann and Winkelried. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891). Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86805-954-0 .
• INSA. Inventory of newer Swiss architecture 1850–1920: Basel , Basel 1986, pp. 48, 153 ( digitized version ).