Sckell
Sckell (spelling also Skell or Skehl ) is the name of a German family of gardeners and painters .
introduction
The Sckell are an extensive family of painters such as B. Ludwig Skell or Ludwig Sckell , horticultural architects or foresters. These have been of Danish origin as gardeners since the 17th century. There are family ties to the gardening dynasties of the Koellner and Petri in central and southern Germany.
To a certain extent, Johann Georg Sckell , who was the court scholar and money collector under Duke Johann Georg I (Saxony-Eisenach) (1634–1686), was somewhat out of character .
The progenitor of the Sckell branch in Thuringia is his son Johann Valentin Sckell , who was the chief forester and game master. His son Johann Georg Christian Sckell was involved in the first forest management in a German country. For decades, the Sckell were court gardeners in Weimar, in particular Belvedere , one of whom Otto Ludwig Sckell worked on the historical processing, but also u. a. in Munich / Nymphenburg or in Brandenburg and Hessian. Friedrich Ludwig Sckell, for example, was the founder of the classic landscape garden in Germany and at the same time an urban planner. The award for outstanding landscape architects Friedrich-Ludwig-von-Sckell-Ehrenring bears his name . It could be Carl August Sckell cite the Bavarian Court Garden Director General had been. A particularly high concentration of the Sckell as garden architects can be seen in the Thuringian lands. In addition to Weimar, others were active. B. in Wilhelmsthal or Marksuhl or Eisenach . Among the painters is u. a. To highlight Ludwig Sckell , who was an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .
Members of the Sckell family
The following list is not a complete record of all family members.
- Johann Georg Sckell (* 1634; † May 31, 1706 in Marksuhl near Eisenach), court school and money collector and game master. Father of Johann Georg Wilhelm Sckell and Johann Valentin Sckell.
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- Johann Georg Wilhelm Sckell (* 1686 in Marksuhl near Eisenach ), electoral court and pleasure gardener in Lehnin (Brandenburg); Son of Johann Georg Sckell , father of Johann Wilhelm Sckell and Johann Friedrich Sckell.
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- (Johann) Wilhelm Sckell (1722–1792), landscape gardener; Son of Johann Georg Wilhelm Sckell; Father of Friedrich Ludwig Sckell and Matthias Sckell.
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- (Clarus) Friedrich Ludwig (von) Sckell (1750–1823), garden architect, founder of the classic landscape garden in Germany; Son of Johann Wilhelm Sckell; Father-in-law of Carl August Sckell.
- Robert Sckell (1979-present). Artists and musicians from the Bavarian capital. Descendant of Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell.
- Wilhelm Sckell (* 1783 in Schwetzingen, † 1814 in Munich), gardener; Son of Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell.
- Matthias Sckell (1760–1816), landscape gardener and court gardener; Son of Johann Wilhelm Sckell.
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- Michael Friedrich Sckell (1800–1868), court gardener in Nymphenburg, then in Würzburg. Son of Matthias Sckell.
- Carl Ludwig Sckell (* 1805 in Nymphenburg; † 1884 ibid.), 1832–1839 court gardener at Berg Palace, 1839–1852 Schleißheim, 1852–1884 Nymphenburg. Son of Matthias Sckell.
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- Ludwig Sckell (1833–1912), landscape painter; Honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich; Son of Carl Ludwig Sckell; Nephew of Carl August Sckell.
- Louis Sckell (* 1869 in Munich; † 1950), royal Bavarian chief hunter, landscape painter; Son of Ludwig Sckell.
- Carl August Sckell , also Karl Skell (1793–1840), Bavarian court garden director; Son of Matthias Sckell.
- Albrecht Karl Sckell (* 1826 in Munich; † after 1883), garden clerk; Son of Carl August Sckell.
- Friederike Sckell, daughter of Matthias Sckell, married to Karl Ludwig Seitz , who became Carl August Sckell's successor after his death.
- Johann Friedrich Sckell (* 1725 in Reckahn ), Weilburg-Nassau gardener since 1746; 1750 as court gardener in Neu-Saar Werden and on the Windhof b. Weilburg proven, 1757 court and pleasure gardener as well as building inspector in Weilburg. Unexecuted garden plans from 1762 for the Jagdschloss Lichtenthal b. Neuwied. Plan for the first garden in Wilhelmsthal b. Eisenach (also not listed); from 1773 Nassau-Oranischer Hofgärtner and building inspector / building director in the Principality of Dillenburg and the rule of Beilstein. One of the godparents of Friedrich Ludwig Sckell.
- Johann Valentin Sckell (* 1694 in Marksuhl, † 1769 in Marksuhl), game master; married to the daughter of the court gardener Johann Nikolaus Petri ; Son of Johann Georg Sckell .
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- Johann Georg Sckell (* 1725 in Eisenach, † 1800 in Eisenach), pupil of the court and pleasure gardener Johann Georg Petri ; Court vegetable gardener in Zweibrücken, from 1767 court gardener in Wilhelmsthal b. Eisenach (he made the first drafts for the landscaping of Wilhelmsthal in 1767, only carried out in 1777), then court gardener in Eisenach (also landscaping), 1791 court gardener of Eisenach and Wilhelmsthal; Son of Johann Valentin Sckell.
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- Johann Conrad Sckell (also: Johann Konrad Sckell) (1768–1834), court gardener and garden inspector at the Belvedere near Weimar; Son of Johann Georg Sckell.
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- Friedrich Anton Louis Sckell (* 1796 in Eisenach; † 1844 in Eisenach), garden conductor at the Belvedere Weimar, 1841 court gardener in Eisenach and Wilhelmsthal; Son of Johann Conrad Sckell.
- Ludwig Franz Karl Konrad Sckell (* 1827 in Belvedere near Weimar, † 1854 in America), gardener; Son of Friedrich Anton Louis Sckell.
- Karl August Christian Sckell (also: Carl August Christian Sckell) (born February 4, 1801 in Belvedere near Weimar, † 1874 in Dornburg / Saale), employed at the Jena Botanical Garden, from 1823 court gardener and castle fort in Dornburg; Son of Johann Conrad Sckell.
- Johann Christian Sckell (* 1773 in Wilhelmsthal (Marksuhl) near Eisenach, † 1857 in Belvedere near Weimar), court gardener in Belvedere near. Weimar, from 1840 garden inspector; Son of Johann Georg Sckell; married his cousin, the daughter of ILG Sckell.
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- Karl Christian Ernst Georg Sckell, from 1808 to 1855 gardener's assistant in the Belvedere Weimar; Son of Johann Christian Sckell.
- Gottlieb Ludwig Eduard Sckell (* 1802 in Troistedt; † 1873 in Belvedere near Weimar), 1819/1820 employment in the Botanical Garden in Berlin, 1820/1821 employment in France and England, 1823 garden conductor in Wilhelmsthal b. Eisenach, 1841 park area management in Belvedere, 1841–1847 under him major redesign, 1857 court garden inspector for Weimar, Tiefurt, Ettersburg a. a .; Son of Johann Christian Sckell.
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- Armin Emil August Heinrich Christian Sckell (1836–1910), court gardener, garden inspector and landscape architect; Son of Gottlieb Ludwig Eduard Sckell.
- Julius Otto Franz Friedrich Sckell (1829–1915), garden conductor and court gardener; Son of Gottlieb Ludwig Eduard Sckell.
- Otto Ludwig Paul August Sckell (1861–1948), head gardener and gardening inspector; Son of Julius Otto Franz Friedrich Sckell.
- Johann Georg Christian Sckell (* 1721 in Eisenach; † 1778), head forester and game master in Troistedt; Son of Johann Valentin Sckell
- Johann Ludwig Gottlieb Sckell (born April 26, 1740 in Marksuhl, † 1808), chief forester and game master in Troistedt, brother of Johann Georg Christian Sckell
- Carl Grundmann-Sckell (* 1795), gardener; Grandson of Johann Ludwig Gottlieb Sckell.
The family also includes:
- Ludwig Skell (1842–1905), landscape, genre and portrait painter, lithographer.
- Fritz Skell (1885–1961), painter and draftsman, illustrator of medical, biological and zoological works.
- Ludwig Julius Sckell (* 1890 in Eisenach; † 1963), Grand Ducal Head Gardener in Dornburg / Saale until 1921, then in Eisenach.
- Friedrich Walther Sckell (* 1894 in Eisenach, † 1915 in Wołkusz (Poland)), gardener.
literature
- Sckell . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 396-397 .
- Karl Lohmeyer : Southwest German gardens of the Baroque and Romantic periods with their domestic and foreign models based on the work of the Saarland and Palatinate court gardener family of the Koellner. Saarbrücken treatises on Southwest German art and culture. Volume 1. Saarbrücken, 1937.
- Otto Sckell: Pedigree of Julius Otto Franz Christian Sckell: Garden conductor to Ettersburg, court gardener and garden inspector in Belvedere b. Weimar, b. Eisenach January 30, 1829, died Weimar (retired) June 14 , 1915 , published approx. 1920. Contained in: Family table of the Sckell's: Thuringian line with inclusion of the Argentinian and Swiss branch , ca.1944.
- Horst Ludwig : Sckell and Skell and other animal painters: Munich landscape painters in the 19th and early 20th centuries. 13th episode. In: Weltkunst . 57, 1987, pp. 3690-3694.
- Jutta Fulsche: Sckell's fan collection. Repertories of the Thuringian Main State Archives Weimar, Volume 3. Weimar 1996.
- Peter Lack: The gardener and artist family Sckell. In: The garden art. Volume 14, Issue 2, 2002, p. 195.
- Jan Woudstra: The Sckell Family in England (1770-1830). In: The garden art. Volume 14, Issue 2, 2002, p. 211.
- Iris Lauterbach (ed.): Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823). Garden artist and city planner. Wernersche Verlagsanstalt, Worms 2002, ISBN 3-88462-190-4 .