Elias Keßler
Elias Keßler , also Kessler (around 1685 ; † January 26, 1730 in Stralsund , Swedish-Pomerania ) was a German sculptor from Stralsund.
Live and act
Little is known about Keßler's origins and training; an apprenticeship in the circle of the Berlin academy led by Andreas Schlueter is likely given Kessler's work.
Karl Möller calls Keßler in his work "Stralsund Sculpture of the 18th Century" the leading sculptor in the province of Swedish Pomerania since the first third of the 18th century . Keßler is mentioned for the first time in 1704 in a negotiation protocol of the Stralsund carpenter's office.
According to Detlef Witt, Keßler was the "(...) artistically most important representative of this guild in the Hanseatic city on the Sund".
Works
His works, which were created between 1717 and 1727, include more than 200 full figures, a number of reliefs and ornamental sculptures, whereby Karl Möller accepts the collaboration of assistants due to the large number of works and the considerable differences in quality. Möller goes on to say that the altars by Landow and Reinberg were probably made exclusively by Kessler's assistants. The large number of orders also makes it impossible for every figure to be completely re-created; In some cases, a third time was worked on from the design, whereby the style development in the meantime had an impact, as for example with the resurrected by Reinberg and Sagard .
- Altar, baptism and pulpit, painted wooden ceiling of the Landow village church ,
- Altarpiece consecrated in 1710 in the St. Marien Church in Görmin
- Altar from 1723 and a pulpit from the 18th century in St. Johannis zu Lassan ,
- 1723 baroque altar in the village church Semlow ,
- 1724 altar in the parish church Altenkirchen ,
- 1724/25 altar, baptismal angel and stand angel in the church Lüssow (Gützkow)
- around 1725 altarpiece in the Sankt-Marien-Kirche (Loitz) ,
- 1725 Patronage box opposite the pulpit in the Voigdehagen church ,
- 1726 baroque altarpiece in the village church of Niepars ,
- 1726/1727 baroque altar in St. Michael Church (Sagard) ,
- 1727/1728 Baptism angel in the village church Prohn ,
- 1728 pulpit altar and altar barrier in the seaman's church Prerow ,
- after his death in 1732 baptismal canopy in the parish church of St. Nikolaikirche in Stralsund .
literature
- Tatjana Frey: Elias Kessler: a Stralsund sculptor of the baroque. (1989) , Dissertation, University of Greifswald 1990
Web links
- Literature about Elias Keßler in the state bibliography MV
- Photo exhibitions on two Stralsund baroque sculptors on Dorfkirchen-in-Not.de .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The world and reality of life of the Pomeranian nobility in comparison with the other Swedish provinces. 4th Annual Meeting of the David Mevius Society ”, hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de, accessed on July 18, 2009
- ^ Karl Möller: Stralsund sculpture of the 18th century , p. ???
- ↑ Eckhard Oberdörfer: More light for the church in village near Greifswald in: Ostsee-Zeitung from July 25, 2018.
- ↑ The church in Lüssow is celebrating its desk angel , accessed on September 22, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kessler, Elias |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kessler, Elias Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1685 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1730 |
| Place of death | Stralsund |