Balthasar Beckel

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Hans Balthasar Beckel (* 1726 ; † 1809 ) was a Swiss sculptor .

Live and act

Beckel was accepted as a sculptor in the spinning weather guild in Basel. In 1758 he carried out the sculpting work on the renovation of the “Rollerhof” on Münsterplatz. Six years later, two gilded Trumeau frames and marble slabs were supplied for the hall in the same building. In the 1760s he was also entrusted with the sculpting work in the "Haus zum Raben" in the Aeschenvorstadt.

Around 1770 he carved the coats of arms of the heads (mayor and chief guild master) on the organ of Johann Andreas Silbermann in the Theodorskirche (housing today in the Peterskirche ). At the same time he was also involved in the interior work on the "Mentelinhof" on Münsterplatz. In 1796 he received the order from the municipal cellar office to attach a (not preserved) shield with decorations and the coats of arms of the mayor and the other cellar owners to the largest barrel in Gnadental.

literature

  • CH Baer: The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Stadt, Vol. 3: The churches, monasteries and chapels, 1st part: St. Alban to Charterhouse. Basel 1941.
  • Carl Brun (Red.): Schweizerisches Künstlerlexikon , Vol. 2, pp. 163f. (Daniel Burckhardt); Vol. 4, p. 257.
  • Traugott Geering : The Basel banking company Ehinger und Cie. 1810-1910. Basel 1910, p. 8.
  • Stefan Hess / Wolfgang Loescher : Furniture in Basel. Art and craft of the carpenters until 1798. Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-85616-545-1 .
  • Doris Huggel: Johann Jacob Fechter 1717–1797, engineer in Basel. Lindenberg im Allgäu 2004, pp. 137f., 140.
  • Paul Koelner : History of the spinning weather guild in Basel and their handicrafts , Basel 1931 (reprint 1970).
  • François Maurer: The art monuments of the canton Basel-Stadt, Vol. 4: The churches, monasteries and chapels, 2nd part: St. Katharina to St. Nikolaus. Basel 1961.
  • Anne Nagel, Martin Möhle and Brigitte Meles: The art monuments of the canton Basel-Stadt, Vol. 7: The old town of Grossbasel I - secular buildings. Bern 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Nagel: A rococo festival room in Basel's Rollerhof. In: Kunst + Architektur in der Schweiz, vol. 54 (2003), no . 4, p. 56. doi: 10.5169 / seals-394258
personal data
SURNAME Beckel, Balthasar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckel, Hans Balthasar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1726
DATE OF DEATH 1809