Mathieu Kessels

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Portrait of Mathieu Kessels, ca. 1820-25, by an unknown painter

Mathieu Kessels (born May 20, 1784 in Maastricht , Netherlands , † March 3, 1836 in Rome ) was a sculptor .

Live and act

After the death of his father, Kessels learned goldsmithing in Venlo and Paris before moving to Hamburg , where his brother worked as an architect. In 1806 he went to Saint Petersburg for almost 8 years to learn sculpture from Joseph Camberlain . He made a work for the wedding of Prince Wilhelm of the Netherlands with the Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna from Russia. Later he received a pension from King Wilhelm , which secured his livelihood.

In 1817 he returned to his homeland and lived again in Maastricht. He attended Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson's school in Paris for four months and finally came to Rome, where he made the bas-reliefs day and night in Thorvaldsen's studio . In 1819 he won a prize given by Canova with his picture of St. Sebastian .

Mathieu Kessels was the younger brother of the important Altona chronometer maker and precision watch manufacturer Heinrich Johann Kessels (1781–1849).

Works (selection)

Tomb for the Countess of Celles ( San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi , Rome )
  • Cupid sharpening the arrow , made for Berwich D'Alba
  • Genius der Künste ( Royal Museums of Fine Arts , Brussels ) made for M. Poublon from Florence
  • Bust of Admiral Maarten Tromp in the Walhalla , Regensburg district , made in Rome in 1825
  • Christ head
  • Flood scene: man, woman and child, of colossal size, which marks him as a naturalist independent of the Thorvaldsen school. (Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels)

literature

Web links

Commons : Mathieu Kessels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Georg Kaspar Nagler: Kessels, Matthias . In: New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, ... 1837, p. 566-567 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Arthur Laes: Kessels, Mathieu. In: Enciclopedia Italiana. 1933 ( treccani.it ).
personal data
SURNAME Kessels, Mathieu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kessels, Mathijs; Kessels, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Maastricht
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1836
Place of death Rome