Frédéric Wiffel

Frédéric Wiffel , born Friedrich Matthäus Emanuel Wiffel (born September 14, 1737 in Munzingen near Freiburg im Breisgau , † February 1, 1805 in Paris ) was a German sculptor who worked in Paris.

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Wiffel was the son of the estate manager and schoolmaster Johann Friedrich Anton Wiffel. From 1751 to 1756 he was apprenticed to the Strasbourg sculptor Stephan Lamy . He then settled in Paris, where the Académie de Saint-Luc accepted him as a member in 1771 . He worked in France and for the electoral palace in Koblenz . In Paris he lived in 1785 at rue Plumet No. 898 15th arrondissements .

Works

• 1777/86: Wood and plaster sculptures for the throne room, dining room, bedroom, billiard room and grand cabinet of the electoral palace in Koblenz
• 1780: Wooden heads for the automatic figures of the Abbé Mical
• 1782/83: coat of arms on the town hall of Lyons-la-Forêt
• from 1784: Works for the customs houses in Paris built by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

literature

• Wiffel, Frédéric . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 548-549 .
• Hermann Brommer : Munzinger churches and chapels. In: Ulrike Rödling (arrangement): Munzingen. A village through the ages. ed. from the city of Freiburg, Munzingen local authority. Freiburg-Munzingen 1991, p. 298.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wiffel (Frédéric) . In: Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France . H. Champion, Paris 1906 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
2. ^ Henri Vial, Adrien Marcel, André Girodie: Les artistes décorateurs du bois; répertoire alphabétique des ébénistes, menuisiers sculpteurs, doreurs sur bois, etc., ayant travaillé en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (=  Publications pour faciliter les études d'art en France . Volume 2 : M-Z & Supplément ). Jean Schemit, Paris 1922, p. 201 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).