Egid Verhelst the Elder
Egid Verhelst the Elder , also Aegid Verhelst or Egid the Elder (born December 13, 1696 in Antwerp , † April 19, 1749 in Augsburg ), was a Flemish sculptor and representative of the Bavarian Baroque and Rococo .
Life
Verhelst received his first training in Antwerp and probably came to the workshop of the Flemish Willem de Groff in Paris . He also worked for Maximilian II. Emanuel in Brussels and was called to the Wittelsbach court after his return to Munich in 1716. As a result, Verhelst came to Munich in 1718, worked for several years in de Groff's workshop and joined the circle of court artists. In 1724 he appeared as court sculptor for Duke Theodor Johann von Bayern , Prince-Bishop of Freising .
On November 19, 1724, he married Maria Benedicta Hagn in Munich, who worked as a wax boss according to his models. In 1728 he became a citizen of Augsburg. At the time of his death he was a court sculptor for the Prince of Kemptenscher . His student Joseph Bonaventura Mutschelle (1728–1778 / 83) married his widow in 1759.
His sons Ignaz Wilhelm (1729–1792) and Placidus (1727–1778), who had trained with him, took over the workshop under the name of their mother. The daughter Anna Franziska Walburga married the copper engraver Johann Rudolf Störchlin (around 1720 – around 1754) in her first marriage and the painter Joseph Christ (1731–1788) in her second marriage. The youngest son Egid the Younger learned from his brother-in-law and became an engraver.
Works
- Ettal : high altar with plastic representation of the Assumption of Mary, 1726 (destroyed in a fire in 1744); Two wall fountains in the sacristy, 1726/30; Twelve apostles larger than life in stone on the church facade, 1726/35 (planned for the balustrade)
- Dießen , four side altars (1738)
- Pilgrimage Church of Our Lord's Rest in Friedberg , Pietà at the brotherhood altar (around 1745)
- Salvator Mundi Palace Chapel in Haimhausen Palace, three- dimensional furnishings (since 1748)
- Wieskirche near Steingaden, four evangelists and two prophets at the high altar (1748)
literature
- Norbert Lieb : Verhelst (Verelst), Egid d. Elder In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 248-250 .
- Roger Diederen, Christoph Kurzeder (eds.): With body and soul - Munich Rococo from Asam to Günther. Sieveking Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-944874-15-9 , p.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Verhelst, Egid the Elder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Verhelst, Egid; Verhelst, aegid; Egid he elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Flemish sculptor and representative of the Bavarian Baroque and Rococo |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1696 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1749 |
| Place of death | augsburg |