Johann Baptist Scholl the Elder Ä.

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Johann Baptist Scholl the Elder, after a drawing by L. Pfaff (1856)

Johann Baptist Scholl , called the Elder (born January 4, 1784 in Bamberg , † July 6, 1854 in Darmstadt ), was a Hessian sculptor of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Johann Baptist Scholl came from a family of sculptors that can be traced back to the 17th century. He is the founder of the Darmstadt-based family branch and, together with his wife Francisca (née Clos), the father of Johann Baptist Scholl the Younger (1818–1881).

After training with Johann W. Wurzer, he worked in Aschaffenburg and later in Mainz. In 1817 he was appointed court sculptor by Grand Duke Ludwig I of Hesse and the Rhine . Scholl was a permanent employee of Georg Moller . He was a member of the Darmstadt Masonic Lodge Johannes der Evangelist zur Eintracht . A lithograph on which Johann Wolfgang von Goethe can be seen sitting next to a bed, and which has the title The death of Goethe on the 22nd March 1832 and a signature “signed. u. Lith. By IB Scholl ”is attributed to him.

Johann Baptist Scholl the Elder Ä. was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: IB 105).

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Individual evidence

  1. Scholl, Johann Baptist the Younger in the Hessian Biography .
  2. Johann Baptist Scholl: The death of Goethe on the 22nd March 1832 (signed and lith. By IB Scholl [between 1832 and 1854]), doi: 10.25534 / tudigit-9419 .