Mathis Giger

This article covers the younger cabinet maker of that name. For the father of the same name, see Mathis Giger the Elder .

Mathis Giger (* February 1568 Basel ; † 1640/41 ibid) was a Swiss cabinet maker and picture carver.

Life

Mathis Giger the Younger was the youngest son of the Pfullendorf carpenter Mathis Giger the Elder . Like his two older brothers Conrad and Leonhard, he learned to be a carpenter. In 1596 he acquired the guild rights of the Basel spinning weather guild . In 1598, together with Hans Walter , Franz Pergo and his brother Conrad Giger, he created the “head stalls” for the Basel cathedral . In 1615/16 he created the paneling and door court for the rear council chamber in the Basel town hall (today in the tower room). From 1625 he was apparently no longer active in the profession he had learned.

literature

• CH Baer: The art monuments of the Canton of Basel-Stadt I. History and cityscape. Fortifications. Area and Rhine bridge; City Hall and State Archives (= Swiss Art Monuments. Volume 3). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1932.
• Ulrich Barth u. a .: The Basel Town Hall, ed. from the State Chancellery of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, Basel 1983.
• Peter Felder: Baroque sculpture of Switzerland (= contributions to the history of art in Switzerland; 6). Wiese, Basel 1988, ISBN 3-909158-06-4 .
• Stefan Hess / Wolfgang Loescher : Furniture in Basel. Art and craft of the carpenters until 1798, Basel 2012; ISBN 978-3-85616-545-1
• Dieter Pfister : Franz Pergo. On furniture art in north-west Switzerland around 1600, Basel 1984; ISBN 3-906430-51-0 .
• Dieter Pfister, Sabine Häberli, Astrid Kübli: Basler Möbelkunst from 1450 to 1950. Schwabe, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7965-1893-1 .
• Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon, edited by C. Brun, B. 1, p. 556; Vol. 4, p. 173.

Web links

• Giger, Mathis (the younger). In: Sikart