Johann Caspar cheese
Johann Caspar Käse (born June 12, 1705 in Gandersheim ; † February 17, 1756 ibid) was a German sculptor and court sculptor of the Rococo in Gandersheim.
Life
His father was the Gandersheim sculptor Johann Friedrich Käse and his mother came from Klein- Rhüden . They had four sons. His wife was Christina Maria Behrens. They had no offspring.
Works
out of stone:
- Marble sarcophagus for Elisabeth of Saxony-Meiningen in the collegiate church (Bad Gandersheim)
- Elisabeth Fountain Gandersheim 1748
- Epitaph in the church in Küblingen
wooden:
- Pulpit altar in the church in Wetteborn
- Pulpit altar in the church in Schöppenstedt
- Baptism in the church in Wetteborn
- Figure in the church in Winzenburg
literature
- Kurt Kronenberg : Johann Caspar Käse (1705–1756) a Gandersheim court sculptor in the Rococo, in: Braunschweigische Heimat, vol. 52, 1966, pp. 117ff.
- Axel Christoph Kronenberg: Johann Caspar Käse, in: Die Kurzeitung Bad Gandersheim, October / November 2003, pp. 10/11.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cheese, Johann Caspar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and court sculptor of the Rococo in Gandersheim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1705 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gandersheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1756 |
| Place of death | Gandersheim |