Gaspard Gsell

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Gaspard Gsell , actually Kaspar Gsell , (* 1. August 1814 in St. Gallen , † 4. February 1904 in Meudon ) was a Swiss-French glass painter , in Paris churches many stained glass windows restored or renewed.

Life

Gaspard Gsell was the son of the lithographer Jakob Laurenz Gsell. He comes from a family that has lived in St. Gallen since the early 16th century. Gaspard Gsell studied at the École supérieure des beaux-arts in Geneva and continued his studies in Paris around 1830 , where he became a student of Ingres and Delaroche . Lithographs by Gaspard Gsell are known from the period from 1840 to 1845. Around 1843 he was employed as a carton draftsman by the factory in Choisy-le-Roi . Until 1845 he was involved in the restoration of windows in the churches of Saint-Jacques-Saint-Christophe de la Villette and St-Vincent-de-Paul in Paris.

In 1846 Gaspard Gsell bought together with Pierre Charles Marquis the Parisian stained glass workshop Hauder et André at 40bis, Rue des Amandiers-Popincourt. A year later, he separated from this company and founded the company Laurent Gsell et Cie with Émile Laurent . The company's headquarters were initially in Rue Saint-Sébastien and in 1851 it was relocated to No. 23, Rue du Montparnasse. Gaspard Gsell had been married to Caroline Adèle Laurent, his partner's daughter, since December 8, 1859 . The company was initially renamed Laurent and Gsell and was given the name Gsell-Laurent from the 1870s when Gaspard Gsell became sole managing director. On March 3, 1892, Gaspard Gsell handed the company over to his son Albert Gsell .

Gaspard Gsell's brother, Theodor Gsell Fels , made a name for himself as a non-fiction author, art historian, and physician.

Works

Window in the Church of St-Eugène-Ste-Cécile by Gaspard Gsell: Transfiguration of the Lord

Gaspard Gsell's workshop carried out restorations in many churches in Paris and created new windows for the following churches: St-Gervais-St-Protais  (1848), St-Roch  (1854/56), St-Étienne-du-Mont  (1858 ), Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Passy (not yet incorporated into Paris at that time), Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux  (1855), St-Eustache  (1854/66), St-Eugène-Ste-Cécile  ( 1855), Ste-Clotilde  (1856), Saint-Bernard de la Chapelle  (1861), St-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas  (1868/71), St-Pierre de Montrouge  (1872) and for the Chapel of the Élysée Palace  (1864).

Lead glass windows and their restorations were carried out in 53 French departments and in 15 other countries . The Musée Carnavalet owns a large part of Gaspard Gsell's company archive. He worked with many painters such as B. Auguste Hussenot , Galimard and Alfred Gérente.

literature

  • Elisabeth Pillet: Le vitrail à Paris au XIXe siècle. Entretenir, conserver, restaurer , ( Corpus Vitrearum France - Études IX) Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2010, ISBN 978-2-7535-0945-0 .

Web links

Commons : Gaspard Gsell  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yearbooks of the City of St. Gallen, Volume 3 , page 63
  2. ↑ Marcel Mayer: Gsell. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Gsell, Gaspard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gsell, Kaspar (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-French glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1904
Place of death Meudon