Carl August Schöll

Carl August Schöll (born September 5, 1810 in Strasbourg ; † March 15, 1878 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss relief artist.

Born in Strasbourg as the son of Kaspar Friedrich Schöll and his wife Anna Barbara, née Klauser, he lived in Switzerland from the 1830s. In Zurich he took up the profession of artist and married Maria Helena Fehr in 1839. From 1844 he worked as a teacher for gymnastics and modeling at the industrial school in St. Gallen and the Munz Institute. From 1856 to 1877/1878 he taught at the Cantonal School of St. Gallen. In 1860 he was involved in founding the Turner Rescue Corps - a volunteer fire department - and became chairman .

In self-study he trained as a geoplasticist . His relief of Säntis was awarded a prize at the Great Exhibition in London, the first world exhibition , in 1851 . Four years later, his depiction of the canton of St. Gallen , which he had made for the cantonal administration from 1845 to 1852, received an award at the world exhibition in Paris . It was then exhibited in the government building and was one of the most important sights of the city in the 19th century. The relief was transferred to the depot in 1950 and disposed of in 1972.

Schöll also created reliefs from other regions of Switzerland and made various other sculptural works. Among other things, his models of various castles are preserved in the St. Gallen Historical Museum.

literature

• Traugott Schiess: Schöll, Karl August. In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon. 3rd volume, Huber & co., Frauenfeld 1913, p. 81 ( online ).
• Markus Kaiser: Schöll, Carl August. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .