Anton Viesel

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Imperial eagle on the Freiburg Bismarck Tower from 1899
Lessing bust at the Lessing School

Anton Viesel (born August 16, 1866 in Melchingen ; † after 1933) was a Baden sculptor who worked in Freiburg im Breisgau .

On November 25, 1889, Viesel married Franziska Messerschmid (born March 6, 1867 in Reiselfingen ) in the Freiburg Church of St. Urban .

From 1890 to 1894 Viesel was apprenticed to his later colleague Gustav Messerschmid (1875-1958). In 1899 Anton Viesel was involved in the new main portal for the main cemetery in Freiburg im Breisgau , and in 1900 he created a relief of the imperial eagle for the Bismarck tower on the Schlossberg .

Together with Messerschmid, he made portrait busts of Friedrich Schiller and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing for the Lessing School. From 1909 to 1922 the two shared a studio. It was then continued by August Storr . For Viesel, there is evidence of such a thing until 1934, which can still be seen in part at Friedhofstrasse 57.

literature

  • Michael Klant: Forgotten sculptors. In: Sculpture in Freiburg. 19th century art in public space , Freiburg 2000, pp. 164–172 ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , p. 170

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Details on Anton Viesel. In: Germany Marriages, 1558–1929. FamilySearch.org, accessed November 16, 2016 (FHL microfilm 865,560).
  2. ↑ Company portrait. bildhauerei-storr.de, accessed on November 16, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Viesel, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Melchingen
DATE OF DEATH 20th century