Joseph Anton Lachel

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Joseph Anton Lachel (also: Lachel vel Šmíšek ; * May 24, 1732 in Bohemia ; † August 31, 1785 in Grüssau ) was a Bohemian sculptor of the late Baroque .

biography

Joseph Anton Lachel came from Bohemia. Either there or in the Krzeszów workshop of Anton Dorazil he learned the sculptors and worked in Dorazils workshop. After his death he took over the management of the workshop, as Dorazil's son Roman Laurentius Dorazil was probably too young for this task. Lachel's workshop is also called III. Grüssau sculptor's workshop, succeeding its directors Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff (1st workshop) and Anton Dorazil (2nd workshop). In 1762 Lachel married a daughter of Anton Dorazil, so that he was related by marriage to Roman Laurentius Dorazil. Lachel worked until the end of his life in Grüssau and in the Stiftsland belonging to the monastery. The sculptor Marianus Lachel (* December 8, 1766; † August 31, 1885 in Grüssau) was probably his son.

Works

  • Grüssau monastery church
    • Altar of the Most Holy Sacrament (1754–1755; together with Anton Dorazil )
    • Pulpit decorated with figures of the Holy Trinity and bas-reliefs depicting the Church Fathers (1761)
    • St. John's Chapel: reredos and figures of St. Florian and Laurentius (1761)
    • St. Franz Xaver Chapel: Retable and figures of St. Ignaz von Loyola and Philippus Neri (1761–1763)
    • St. Anna altar with figures of St. Joachim and Judas Thaddäus (1763)
    • St. Matthew Chapel: Retable with figures of St. Matthew and Luke (1766)
    • St. Nicholas Chapel: Retable with figures of St. Charles Borromeo and Martin of Tours (1767)
  • Grüssau St. Joseph's Church
    • Carved main altar (1755)
  • Liebau , parish church of the Assumption of Mary: main altar (1781)
  • Oppau , Filialkirche St. Hedwig: main altar and side altars; probably also: pulpit, organ prospectus and confessional with crucifixion group in the crown
  • Schömberg , interior fittings for the Catholic parish church ( together with RL Dorazil )
  • Schmiedeberg , prayer house church: pulpit, altar, organ prospectus ( together with RL Dorazil )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to his tombstone he came from Horaschdowitz , according to the Grüssau marriage book from Schluesselburg , both places belonged to the old Bohemian Budweiser Kreis. Taken from: Nikolaus von Lutterotti : Vom unbekannten Grüssau , 3rd edition, Grenzland-Verlag Wolfenbüttel 1962, p. 203
personal data
SURNAME Lachel, Joseph Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lachel, Josef Anton; Smile vel Šmíšek, Josef Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian sculptor of the late baroque
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1785
Place of death Grüssau