Johann Kaspar Gigl

Johann Kaspar Gigl (baptized August 18, 1737 in Schönwag-Forst in the municipality of Wessobrunn in Upper Bavaria ; † September 5, 1784 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a plasterer , altar builder and sculptor from the Wessobrunn school from the Gigl family of plasterers .

Johann Kaspar Gigl, stucco work in the palace chapel of the new Tettnang Palace

Life

He was the youngest son of the plasterer Pontian Gigl (1681–1742) and had seven brothers, the most famous being Johann Georg Gigl . He worked with his brother Johann Georg in the construction of the high altar in the Church of the Holy Cross in Kirchberg in 1760.

On March 15 and April 2, 1773 he signed contracts for work with the St. Blasien monastery . He was supported by the plasterer Benedikt Raffler (1737–1806), who also came from Wessobrunn . The alabaster panels to be used for the cladding of the choir walls were to be selected and prepared in the quarries near Fützen and Ehingen. Kaspar Gigl was the chief master responsible for stuccoing the rotunda. Layers with jasper, marble and alabaster in the abbot choir and further stucco work in the library in 1777/78 were added. After Martin Gerbert was extremely satisfied with the work, he commissioned him to build nine side altars in alabaster based on designs by Johann Christian Wentzinger . This work continued until after the inauguration of the cathedral on September 21, 1783 and until after his death in 1784. Only the high altar was completed in 1781.

Works

The rotunda in St. Blasien Cathedral

Kirchberg near St. Gallen, 1760
St. Blasien Cathedral , 1772 to 1784
Pilgrimage Church of Todtmoos, (nave) 1777/78
Castle chapel of the New Tettnang Castle

literature

Heinrich Heidegger, Hugo Ott, (Ed.), St. Blasien 200 years of the monastery and parish church , (Festschrift), ISBN 3-7954-0445-2 ; Schnell and Steiner, 1983. (In it: Hermann Brommer , builders and builders on the cathedral building of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Blasien , pp. 209–230)
Hugo Schnell, Uta Schedler: Lexicon of Wessobrunn artists and craftsmen . Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-7954-0222-0 .

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Brommer, builders and builders on the cathedral building of the Benedictine abbey of St. Blasien , p. 218, in: Heinrich Heidegger, Hugo Ott, (ed.), St. Blasien 200 years of monastery and parish church
↑ Hermann Brommer, Builders and Builders at the Cathedral Building of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Blasien , p. 217, in: Heinrich Heidegger, Hugo Ott, (Ed.), St. Blasien 200 years monastery and parish church , (Festschrift), ISBN 3-7954- 0445-2 ; Schnell and Steiner, 1983.

personal data
SURNAME	Gigl, Johann Kaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gigel, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Plasterer, altar builder and sculptor from the Wessobrunn school
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized August 18, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wessobrunn
DATE OF DEATH	September 5, 1784
Place of death	Landsberg am Lech

[1] Hermann Brommer, builders and builders on the cathedral building of the Benedictine abbey of St. Blasien , p. 218, in: Heinrich Heidegger, Hugo Ott, (ed.), St. Blasien 200 years of monastery and parish church

[2] Hermann Brommer, Builders and Builders at the Cathedral Building of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Blasien , p. 217, in: Heinrich Heidegger, Hugo Ott, (Ed.), St. Blasien 200 years monastery and parish church , (Festschrift), ISBN 3-7954- 0445-2 ; Schnell and Steiner, 1983.