Gerhard Carl Zell

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Gerhard Carl cell (* 1807 in Hannover ; † 24. May 1852 ) was a German goldsmith , Royal Hanoverian Hof - jeweler and city pawnshop - appraiser .

Life

Gerhard Carl was the eldest son of Johann Peter Friedrich Zell , with whom he also went through his training and worked as a journeyman after the years of traveling . On August 24, 1832, he took the oath and became a master himself in the same year . As early as the following year, 1833, he was listed in the city ​​of Hanover's address books as a “jeweler, gold and silver worker and appraiser”, and from 1841 as a court jeweler and city loan taxator. In addition to Georg Ludwig Benseler and Georg Julius Friedrich Knauer , he was one of the three mayors . In 1837, the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover held its second general exhibition of domestic industrial products, at which Zell was praised.

Gerhard Carl Zell trained several apprentices , in addition to Eduard Petri and Ernst Wilhelm Dehlke , Friedrich Carl Büsch , who ran the business after Zell's death; his family held it until 1943. He also employed several well-known journeymen.

Works

One of the well-known works of Zell is a goblet with a paten in Brome, dated 1842, with the maker's mark Zell . Other works by Zell - mostly in private hands - are known. A chalice from 1849 is part of the sacrament device in the St. Georg church in Afferde . A silver spice cart is in the Museum of Art and Cultural History Dortmund (Inv. No. C 6596 a – c). According to the records of the religious order scientist Friedhelm Beyreiß, Zell also supplied large and small crosses for the Grand Ducal Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig . He was also one of the manufacturers of the Order of St. George .

literature

  • Wolfgang Scheffler : Gerhard Carl Zell. In: Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony. Dates, works, characters , 1st half volume, Aerzen - Hamburg , Berlin: de Gruyter, 1965, p. 774; online through google books

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Scheffler: Gerhard Carl Zell (see literature)
  2. ^ Hans Graeven : History of the city-Hanoverian goldsmiths . (P. 207)
  3. ↑ Mittheilungen the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover , parts 15-20. Helwing, 1839 (p. 85)
  4. ↑ Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 78.
  5. ↑ Joachim Bühring, Guido Grosse Boymann, Jürgen Klemcke: The art monuments of the district Hameln-Pyrmont in the administrative district Hanover. Publication of the Lower Saxony State Administration Office. German Kunstverl., 1975. ISBN 978-3-88079-001-8 (p. 518)
  6. ↑ Figure in the RDK archive
personal data
SURNAME Zell, Gerhard Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zell, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German goldsmith, court jeweler and valuer
DATE OF BIRTH 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1852
Place of death Hanover