Brandolf Egger

Brandolf Egger (* 1674 in Bern ; † 1731 ibid) was a Swiss magistrate and connoisseur .

biography

Brandolf Egger was born as the son of Johannes Egger and Margaretha Wasmer. The family from Aarau received citizenship rights in Bern in 1601 and, during the period of the increasingly demarcated patriciate, barely managed to take a seat on the Grand Council as the third generation. Brandolf's father Johannes was a notary and in 1673 was the first of his generation to join the Grand Council, in 1685 he became governor of Schwarzenburg, in 1700 he was sixteen and governor of Echallens.

Brandolf Egger's educational path is unknown. Around 1700 he occupied himself with the arts by putting together a volume with 45 sheets from the hand of the painter Wilhelm Stettler (1643–1708) under the title Eygentliche pictures of several places in the city of Bern . In 1710, like his father, he became a member of the Grand Council of the City of Bern and in 1721 a governor of St. Johannsen . Of his three sons, Johannes Egger (1698–1748) became professor of philosophy at the Academy in Bern, Johann Rudolf Egger was bailiff to Thorberg and Samuel Egger (1705–1768) bailiff to Oron. Government commissions and friendship connected him with the Basel painter Johann Rudolf Huber (1668–1748).

Brandolf Egger became famous for the gouache copies made by Albrecht Kauw (1616–1681) of Niklaus Manuels (around 1484–1530) Dance of Death. Egger produced new calligraphic text sheets for it. In addition, in the years 1714 to 1717 Egger wrote the three-volume register of all regiments of all the different families of the Statt Bern , which has an artfully calligraphic title page. Between 1713 and 1722 he made copies of the church registers (baptismal, marriage and death lists) for the Bernese Burgerkammer.

literature

• Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland , Vol. II, p. 786.
• Manuel Kehrli: His mind is capable of anything. The painter, collector and art connoisseur Johann Rudolf Huber (1668-1748) Basel 2010. ISBN 978-3-7965-2702-9
• In the shadow of the golden age. Artist and client in the Bernese 17th century , Bd. II, ed. by Georges Herzog, Elisabeth Ryter ea, Bern: Kunstmuseum Bern 1995, p. 201.
• Niklaus Manuel German. Painter, poet, statesman , ed. by Cäsar Menz and Hugo Wagner, Bern: Kunstmuseum Bern 1979, p. 261.

Web links

• Holdings in the burger library in Bern .