Johann Jakob Oechslin

Johann Jakob Oechslin (* 19th February 1802 in Schaffhausen , † 28. April 1873 in Schaffhausen) was a Swiss sculptor of Classicism .

life and work

Johann Jakob Oechslin was born the son of a ship master in Schaffhausen. After an apprenticeship in drawing, he was a student of the sculptor Johann Heinrich Dannecker in Stuttgart from 1821 to 1823 . From 1824 to 1826 he stayed in Rome and probably worked for Bertel Thorvaldsen . From 1827 to 1832 he worked in Stuttgart again, after which he returned to his home town of Schaffhausen.

In 1842 Oechslin created statues of saints for the collegiate church and in 1854 evangelists for the St. Galler St. Laurenzen Church . His commissions were limited to busts and a few statues before the classicist architect Melchior Berri commissioned him with the allegorical frieze at the Natural History Museum Basel , his major work created in 1848. Oechslin also created several monuments, for example in 1848 for Hans Georg Nägeli in Zurich and Johannes von Müller in Schaffhausen, and in 1862 for Conrad Gessner and Johann Georg Sulzer at the Winterthur high school. Oechslin also created caricatures as a painter and draftsman. The sculptor Hans Baur was one of his students .

literature

• Tapan Bhattacharya: Johann Jakob Oechslin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland ., 2010.
• U. Beleffi Sotriffer: Johann Jacob Oechslin, sculptor in Schaffhausen. Dissertation. Zurich 2006.
• Daisy Sigerist: Johann Jacob Oechslin. In: biographies. Volume IV. Schaffhauser Contributions to History. 58, 1981, pp. 208-217 ( online ; PDF file; 457 kB).
• Daisy Sigerist: Johann Jacob Oechslin "Belisarius" . E-periodicals
• CH Vogler: The painter and sculptor Joh. Jakob Oechslin from Schaffhausen. In: Schaffhauser Neujahrsblätter. 13/14, 1905/06, pp. 1-48.

Web links

• Désirée Antonietti von Steiger: Oechslin, Johann Jakob. In: Sikart 1998