Arnold Abel

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Arnold Abel (* in Cologne ; † February 14, 1564 in Innsbruck ) was a German sculptor and stonemason of the Renaissance .

Life

Little is known about Arnold Abel, who came from the Abel family of artists in Cologne . In 1561 he stayed in Vienna . On April 28, 1561 received he and his brothers Bernhard Abel , also a stonemason and sculptor, and in Prague living painter and draftsman Florian Abel , in Vienna the common contract for design of the long unfinished tomb of Emperor Maximilian I in the Hofkirche to Innsbruck by twenty-four reliefs of marble .

The departure for Innsbruck took place in May 1561, then until December 1561 a trip to Italy for marble extraction and study of antiquity . The work that began soon thereafter was slow. His brother Bernhard had already died in 1563, so that after Arnold's death in Innsbruck in 1564, the further execution of the relief work was entrusted to the later court sculptor Alexander Colin . He took over all twenty-four drawing templates from Florian Abel and finished the execution in 1567. Arnold Abel and his brother Bernhard were able to complete one relief independently, two more had only just begun.

A catalog raisonné has not yet been established.

For the life and work of the Abel brothers, see Abel brothers .

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SURNAME Abel, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stonemason and sculptor of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1564
Place of death innsbruck