Jakob Emele
Johann Jakob (Jacob) Emele (born July 13, 1707 in Stafflangen ; † August 8, 1780 in Roppertsweiler ) was a southern German baroque master builder who mainly worked in the service of the Reichsstift Schussenried .
Life
The Emele family comes from the Black Forest . After the Thirty Years' War, the great-grandfather immigrated from St. Blasien and in 1659 was enfeoffed with an estate in Muttensweiler belonging to the Biberach an der Riß hospital .
Jakob Emele's father moved to Stafflangen. Jakob Emele was entered in the Stafflang baptismal register on July 13, 1707 as the son of Mathäus Emele. Nothing is known about his apprenticeship. On November 10, 1729, Jakob Emele married the daughter of the recently deceased master mason Johann Schwärzler Katharina Schwärzlerin von Roppertsweiler .
By training with Hans Michael Köpf, a Vorarlberg master, he got to know the repertoire of forms at this 'building school'. Dominikus Zimmermann in particular had a major influence on his stylistic development . There is evidence that Jakob Emele participated in the construction of the Steinhausen pilgrimage church in 1729/31. Seven years later he called himself a guild master and master builder, and in the following year he was named chief guild master. On November 17, 1742, he signed a protocol as a guild and builder.
In 1742 he was also commissioned to redesign the church tower of the Ummendorfer parish church.
In 1750 Emele was appointed master builder of Schussenried Abbey, for which he carried out and managed the monastery building designed by Zimmermann until 1765. Emele's own planning for the collegiate church remains unfulfilled.
For the Counts of Montfort , Emele rebuilt the new Tettnang Castle , a mighty four-wing complex with excellent state rooms (1745–72).
In the competition for the façade of the collegiate church in Waldsee , he prevailed against Franz Anton Bagnato with a convex façade with towers over the corners (1765–68).
Emele is to be regarded as one of the most important builders in the immediate vicinity of Dominikus Zimmermann. However, his buildings hardly have any traces of imitation Zimmermann, but rather have their own character, which shows many traits of local building traditions. Fine examples of this are the parish churches of Muttensweiler (1750–51) and Otterswang (1777–79), two village churches of very different characters. His rural secular buildings are also of high quality, including mostly very nicely proportioned rectories in Eberhardzell , 1739–41, Eggmannsried , 1748 and Stafflangen , 1758–60.
Jakob Emele died in old age on August 8, 1780 in Roppertsweiler near Bad Schussenried of dropsy.
literature
- A. Kasper: Jakob Emele. A late Baroque builder from Upper Swabia. In: Sacred Art. 1959, pp. 5–62 (with catalog raisonné).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Emele, Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Emele, Jacob; Emele, Johann Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South German baroque master builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1707 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stafflangen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1780 |
| Place of death | Roppertsweiler near Bad Schussenried |