Johann Jakob Keller (sculptor)

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Johann Jakob Keller (born September 5, 1665 in Basel , † November 1747 there ) was a Swiss cabinet maker and sculptor .

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Johann Jakob Keller: Epitaph for the mathematician Jakob I Bernoulli , in the cloister of the Basel Minster

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter with his father Johann Heinrich Keller , Johann Jakob Keller went on a journeyman's hike that took him through Germany, Italy and France. In the mid-1680s he stayed for a long time in Versailles , where he may have worked on the sculptural decoration of the palace and the gardens. In 1688 he created carvings on an older organ in the St. Leonhard Church in Basel. In 1691 he finally settled in Basel and opened his own sculpture workshop. In 1692 he created an organ prospectus for the Peterskirche in Basel. From 1695 to 1698 he was involved as a modeller and expert for sculptural work in stone and wood in the construction of the new Zurich town hall . In 1722 he was commissioned to carve a barrel in the Basler Ratskeller (today in the Basel Historical Museum). His oeuvre also includes a number of epitaphs in Basel churches, including the one for Jakob I Bernoulli . His son Johann Heinrich II. Keller (born 1692 in Zurich, died 1756 in The Hague) was a painter.

literature

  • CH Baer: The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Stadt, Vol. 3: The churches, monasteries and chapels, 1st part: St. Alban to Charterhouse. Basel 1941.
  • Carl Brun (Red.): Swiss Artist Lexicon. Vol. 2, pp. 163f. (Daniel Burckhardt); Vol. 4, p. 257.
  • Konrad Escher: The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zurich, Vol. 4: The City of Zurich. 1st chapter. Basel 1939.
  • Peter Felder: Baroque sculpture of Switzerland (= contributions to the history of art in Switzerland ; 6). Wiese, Basel 1988, ISBN 3-9091-5806-4 , pp. 34, 253.
  • Stefan Hess , Wolfgang Loescher : Furniture in Basel. Art and craft of carpenters until 1798. Basel 2012, ISBN 978 3-85616-545-1 .
  • August Huber: Regesta regarding Basel artists and technicians of the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde. 4 (1905), pp. 289-292.
  • Paul Koelner : History of the spinning weather guild in Basel and their crafts. Basel 1931 (reprint 1970).
  • Emil Major: A barrel with carvings from the Basel Ratskeller. In: Historisches Museum Basel , annual report 1929. pp. 37–43.
  • François Maurer: The art monuments of the canton Basel-Stadt, Vol. 4: The churches, monasteries and chapels, 2nd part: St. Katharina to St. Nikolaus. Basel 1961.
  • François Maurer: The art monuments of the canton Basel-Stadt, Vol. 5: The churches, monasteries and chapels, 3rd part: St. Peter to Ulrichskirche. Basel 1966.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Egger : "The merry resurrection through Jesus Christ is worth it" - The epitaph for Mayor Wettstein. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 98 (1998), p. 58, note 35. online
  2. ↑ Yvonne Boerlin-Brodbeck: Caspar Wolf (1735-1783) - landscape ahead of the romance. Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel. Basel 1980, p. 85.
  3. ↑ Bruno Bushart, Bernhard Rupprecht (ed.): Cosmas Damian Asam (1686–1739). Life and work. Prestel, 1986, p. 96.
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cabinet maker and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH November 1747
Place of death Basel