Balthasar Michel

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Balthasar Michel (* 1576 in Basel ; † before 1604) was a Swiss sculptor .

Live and act

Balthasar Michel, son of the sculptor Hans Michel from Strasbourg , was baptized on May 3, 1576 in Basel's Martinskirche. He worked in Besançon in 1600/1601 and returned to Basel in the summer of 1601, where he joined the spinning weather guild. Because of the family he had founded in Besançon and because he had attended mass there himself, he had great difficulties in regaining citizenship in Basel.

Balthasar Michel made a name for himself as an antique specialist and restorer.

literature

  • Carl Brun (Red.): Swiss Artist Lexicon. Vol. 4, p. 565.
  • Peter Felder: Baroque sculpture of Switzerland (= contributions to the history of art in Switzerland; 6). Wiese, Basel 1988, ISBN 3-9091-5806-4 .
  • August Huber: Information about Basel artisans from the civil rights files of the Basel State Archives, in: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 14 (1915), pp. 379–385 ( online at e-periodica )
  • Elisabeth Landolt: Artist and client in the late 16th century in Basel, in: Unser Kunstdenkmäler 29 (1978), p. 314. online
  • Hans Rott : Sources and research on southwest German and Swiss art history in the XV. and XVI. Century III: The Upper Rhine, Sources II. Stuttgart 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Huber: Request from the sculptor Balthasar Michel to retain Basel's citizenship 1601. Retrieved on May 20, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Michel, Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH baptized May 3, 1576
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH before 1604