Antoine Tassaert
Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert (* around 1727 in Antwerp (baptized August 19 ), † January 21, 1788 in Berlin ) was a French-Flemish sculptor at the transition from Rococo to Classicism .
Life
Tassaert came from a family of sculptors and received his first training from his father. He first went to England and in 1746 to Paris , where he worked in René Michel Slodtz's studio and a. a. by a statue of Louis XV. got known.
Tassaert was with Marie-Edmée Tassaert , geb. Moreau (1736–1791), a miniature painter from Paris. She trained 13-year-old Johann Gottfried Schadow in drawing.
In search of a new director for the court sculptor's workshop in Berlin, Tassaert was designated for the office after preliminary negotiations in Paris. At the end of 1774 he introduced himself to King Friedrich II and was able to take office in Berlin on January 1, 1775. He essentially took over the old staff of French, Italian and German sculptor assistants. The studio included Giovanni Battista Selvino (1744–1789), Giuseppe Girola, Jean Bernard, Claude Goussant and the Germans Conrad Nicolaus Boy , Johann Christian Unger (1746–1823) and the brothers Johann David (1729–1783) and Johann Lorenz Wilhelm Räntz (1733-1776). The first commission he carried out for Friedrich II were four mythological figures for the orangery in Potsdam- Sanssouci .
Prince Heinrich of Prussia commissioned him to carry out several statues and groups for his palace in Berlin.
In Berlin he developed a lively activity and became rector of the art academy . One of his students and later successors was Johann Gottfried Schadow, whom he had taken into his workshop around 1782/83.
children
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Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert (* 1765 in Paris, † 1835 in Paris), engraver. Training with his father in Berlin, 1787–88 London, later Paris.
- Son: Octave Tassaert (1800–1874), painter and lithographer
- Henriette-Felicité Tassaert (* 1766 in Paris, † 1818 in Berlin), painter. Training with his father, Johann Christoph Frisch , Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki and Anton Graff .
Works (selection)
- 1769: Cupid
- 1770: Venus with a bouquet of roses , marble, in the museum of Cognacq-Jay
- 1770: Cupid, ready to shoot an arrow , marble, with a round base more than three meters high; in the National Museum of Malmaison Castle
- 1773: Pyrrha or the population , marble
- 1774–1778: Painting and Sculpture , in the National Gallery of Art , Washington, DC
- 1783: Bust of Moses Mendelssohn , marble
- Among other things, he created the statues of the generals Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz and James Keith on the former Wilhelmplatz in Berlin. These were later removed and replaced by statues by the sculptor August Kiß . The originals are in the Bode Museum . Tassaert also made a bust of Frederick II .
- 1785: Portrait of Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1785), marble, Louvre
- 1787: The building decorations on the Moorish Colonnades in Berlin-Mitte come in part from his workshop.
literature
- P. Seidel: Tassaert, Jean Antoine . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 407-409.
- Rita Hofereiter: Venus in the box. A “morceau de réception” by the sculptor Jean Pierre Antoine Tassaert for King Friedrich II of Prussia. In: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg . Yearbook 2 (1997/1998), pp. 41-58. ( Digitized from perspectivia.net , accessed on February 25, 2013).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrike Krenzlin: Johann Gottfried Schadow . Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-345-00467-4 , p. 22 .
- ↑ Picture of Cupid with arrow ready to fire
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tassaert, Antoine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tassaert, Jean-Pierre-Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Flemish sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1727 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1788 |
| Place of death | Berlin |