Philipp Jakob Scheffauer

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Philipp Jakob Scheffauer
Mourning genius

Philipp Jakob von Scheffauer (born May 7, 1756 in Stuttgart , † November 13, 1808 in Stuttgart) was a German sculptor .

biography

The lackey's son was a fellow student of Dannecker at the High Charles School . Immediately after completing his training, he was appointed court sculptor in 1780 and in 1783 sent to Paris and Rome with Dannecker for further studies. In 1789 the two artists received the order to return to Stuttgart. A year later, at the same time as Dannecker, Scheffauer was appointed professor of sculpture at his former training facility while retaining his position as court sculptor and worked there until it was dissolved in 1794. He also received the Württemberg Civil Merit Order , which was associated with the personal nobility. In 1790 he married Johanna Christina Carolina Heigelin . He died after a long illness and is buried in the Hoppenlauf cemetery in Stuttgart (tomb of Antonio Isopi ).

One of his works, a portrait of the Swabian Elector Friedrich II , influenced successor works by the artists Martin von Muralt and Joseph Wilhelm Ludwig Mack . His grieving genius can be found in the Steigfriedhof in Stuttgart . Klopstock's tomb in the cemetery of Christianskirche (Ottensen) is adorned with a relief by Scheffauer (1804), an allegorical representation of the mourning religion, leaning against an urn.

In the rotunda of the Kepler monument in Regensburg, Scheffauer's life-size marble bust of Johannes Kepler used to be placed. It was replaced by a replica; the original is now in the vestibule of the Kepler Memorial House in Regensburg .

The monument to the tenderness of the spouse and the love of the people , which was erected in 1796 to celebrate the convalescence of the sovereign Friedrich Eugen from a dangerous illness, was removed again during Scheffauer's lifetime by Friedrich Eugen's successor, King Friedrich I.

literature

  • Julius Fekete : The sculptor Philipp Jakob Scheffauer (1756-1808). Another contribution to the work. In: Yearbook of the State Art Collections in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 47 (2010), pp. 80 ff.
  • Uli Kreh: The cold beauties. Sculptures in Stuttgart , Stuttgart 1993, pages 14–15 (basement tomb on the Hoppenlaufriedhof).
  • Friedrich Müller, Karl Klunzinger , Adolf Friedrich Seubert : The artists of all times and peoples or the lives and works of the most famous builders, sculptors, painters, engravers, form cutters, lithographers etc. from the earliest art epochs to the present day . Third volume, M – Z. Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1864, p. 436 ( digitized version in Google book search).
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon, or, news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers. Volume 15. Fleischmann, Munich 1845, p. 158 f. ( Digitized in the Google book search).
  • [August] Wintterlin :  Scheffauer, Philipp Jacob von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 672-676.

Web links

Commons : Philipp Jakob Scheffauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [3].
personal data
SURNAME Scheffauer, Philipp Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheffauer, Philipp Jakob von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1808
Place of death Stuttgart