Johannes Tschudy

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Johannes Tschudy (* 1672 ; † November 1, 1736 in Basel ) was a cabinet maker , master builder and engineer from Basel who also worked in Baden-Durlach and Bern.

life and work

Johannes Tschudy, son of a baker, completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and then trained as an engineer. Since 1699 he can be proven as a cabinet maker in the Basel region. In 1701 Tschudy bought the guild rights of the Basel spinning weather guild . In 1710 he became a master builder and court carpenter of the Margrave of Baden-Durlach . In addition, he worked for the cities of Basel and Bern as an engineer and building expert.

The most important collection of his furniture is in the Basel Historical Museum .

literature

  • Stefan Hess / Wolfgang Loescher : Furniture in Basel. Art and craft of the carpenters until 1798, Basel 2012; ISBN 978-3-85616-545-1
  • Doris Huggel: Johann Jacob Fechter (1717–1797), engineer in Basel . Lindenberg: Kunstverlag Josef Fink, 2004. ISBN 3-89870-147-6 .
  • Wolfgang Loescher: Between the Fürstenhof and the guild society. The Basel cabinet maker, margravial master builder and court carpenter Johannes Tschudy (1672–1736). In: Historisches Museum Basel (Ed.): Annual Report 2007 , pp. 13–25.
  • Wolfgang Loescher, Sabine Söll-Tauchert: A courtly piece of furniture in bourgeois Basel? The cabinet desk for the Obervogt von Münchenstein - a newly discovered early work by Johannes Tschudy. In: Historisches Museum Basel (ed.): Annual report 2009 , pp. 45–61.
  • Dieter Pfister , Sabine Häberli, Astrid Kübli: Basler Möbelkunst from 1450 to 1950. Schwabe, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7965-1893-1 .
  • Heinrich Weiss (Ed.): Attempt of a small and weak description of the churches and monasteries in the city and landscape of Basel. Felix Schneider, Basel 1834, p. 14 ( online ).

Web links

Individual proof

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personal data
SURNAME Tschudy, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss leveler
DATE OF BIRTH 1672
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1736
Place of death Basel