Jakob Sarbach

Basel fish market fountain (copy)

Basels Spalentor, area of ​​the front gate

Jakob Sarbach († 1492) was an in Basel acting builder .

Live and act

Jakob Sarbach, also called Labahürlin, came from a family of builders based in Kleinbasel . In 1460 he was accepted as a bricklayer in the Guild of Heaven in Basel. From 1488 he belonged to the building court and 1490 to the council in Basel.

His works include the completion of the Fischmarktbrunnen in 1468, for which he continued to use older sculptures, 1473–1474 the three-dimensionally adorned entrance gate at the Spalentor and in 1480 the arched Wechselgaden at the Basel department store.

literature

• Casimir Hermann Baer: Art Monuments of the Canton of Basel City, Vol. 1, Basel 1932.
• Carl Brun (Red.): Swiss Artist Lexicon. Volume 3. Frauenfeld 1913, p. 14f.
• Annie Kaufmann-Hagenbach: The Basler Sculpture of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries, Basler Studies on Art History Volume 10, Verlag Birkhäuser, Basel, 1952.
• Thomas Lutz: The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Stadt. Basel-Stadt, Vol. 6: The old town of Kleinbasel. Secular buildings. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2004 (Art Monuments of Switzerland Volume 103). ISBN 3-906131-78-5 .
• Karl Stehlin : Basel builders of the 15th century , in: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 5 (1906), pp. 96–122 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Matthias Oberli: Sarbach, Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .