Jakob Christoph Schletterer

Artemisia statue

Jakob Christoph Schletterer (born July 22, 1699 in Wenns , Tyrol , † May 19, 1774 in Vienna ) was a Tyrolean sculptor .

Around 1727 he worked with Georg Raphael Donner in Salzburg's Mirabell Palace and in 1751 became professor of sculpture at the Imperial and Royal Academy in Vienna.

In 1758 he created a dozen stone sculptures for the park of Draßburg Castle ( Burgenland ).

He died while he was working on a statue of Artemisia for the Great Parterre of Schönbrunn Palace , which was then completed by Johann Baptist Hagenauer .

Other works

The triumphal columns of the Karlskirche in Vienna (together with JC Mader and JB Straub)
Tombs: Harrach ( Teutonic Order Church ), Daun ( Augustinian Church ), Khevenhüller ( Schottenkirche ).
Altar figures for a number of Lower Austrian churches

Constantin von Wurzbach : Schletterer, Jacob . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 30th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1875, p. 95 f. ( Digitized version ).
Ingeborg Schemper-Sparholz: The sculptor Jakob Christoph Schletterer as a teacher at the Vienna Academy. In: Götz Pochat, Brigitte Wagner: Barock. regional - international . Akademische Druck- und Verlags-Anstalt, Graz 1993, ISBN 3-201-01576-8 , ( Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch Graz 25), pp. 230–250, (contribution to the symposium at BAROCK: Regional International, Graz 1991).
Ingeborg Schemper-Sparholz: "... so was recommended by the Maller Troger ..." The sculptor Jakob Christoph Schletterer (1699–1754) and the Tyroleans in Vienna . In: Friedrich Polleroß (Ed.): Reiselust & Kunstgenuss. Baroque Bohemia, Moravia and Austria . Imhof, Petersberg 2004, ISBN 3-937251-39-1 , pp. 141-157.
Franz Windisch-Graetz: Jakob Christoph Schletterer, a sculptor of the Viennese late Baroque . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1950.

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personal data
SURNAME	Schletterer, Jakob Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schlederer, Schletter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Tyrolean sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH	If it
DATE OF DEATH	May 19, 1774
Place of death	Vienna