Sepp Jakob

Fountain near Maria Lindenberg

Josef "Sepp" Jakob (* 1925 in Ottobeuren ; † March 22, 1993 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Sepp Jakob did an apprenticeship as a stonemason , then an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor in Memmingen and Munich . From 1949 to 1951 he attended the master school in Freiburg. From 1954 to 1984 he worked as a foreman in charge of the Münsterbauhütte of the Freiburg Minster , and since 1960 as a freelance sculptor.

His son Wolfgang Jakob works as a sculptor in Gundelfingen .

Works

• 1961 Oberrimsingen , school, entrance hall, relief image of the life of St. Ulrich
• 1963 Freiburg, Münster, figure of St. John and gargoyles on the southwest corner of the tower
• 1964 Oberrimsingen, monument in front of the church
• 1964 Merdingen , school building, entrance hall, memorial for the sculptor Johann Baptist Sellinger
• 1965 Merdingen, wayside shrine with the statue of the wine patron St. Morandus
• 1965 Niederrimsingen , Gottesackerkapelle near the church, memorial for the fallen
• 1966 Opfingen , Protestant parish church, baptismal font
• 1969 Stuttgart , Landtag , portrait busts of the former Landtag presidents Franz Gurk and Camill Wurz
• 1970 Freiburg, Münsterplatz, fish fountain , fountain trough
• 1976 Wittelbach , St. Peter and Paul , tabernacle
• around 1980: Freiburg, University Hospital , wall relief “Doctor for the poor, Dr. Georg Carl Staravasnig "
• 1986 Niederrotweil , St. Michael , memorial plaque for Joseph Sauer
• 1987 Merzhausen , Marienbrunnen in front of St. Gallus
• Freiburg, Münster, Wimperg of the Coronation of Mary above the main portal
• Pilgrimage church Maria Lindenberg near St. Peter , stations of the cross, fountain and Marian column

Fonts

• The renewal of the sculptures on the main tower of the Freiburg Minster . In: Steinmetz + Bildhauer 1973.
• 25 years of the Freiburg master school for stone and wood sculptors, stone masons and stone technology . In: Naturstein 29, 1974, pp. 203-207.
• with Donatus M. Leicher : writing + symbol in stone, wood and metal . Callwey, Munich 1977, ISBN 978-3-7667-0392-7 , 3rd, revised and updated edition 1997.
• Donatus M. Leicher, Odilo Kaiser: Gravestone inscriptions. Words to death for life . With 98 font design examples by Sepp Jakob. Callwey, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7667-0756-6 .
• with Klaus Geis: On the work of the Freiburg Münsterbauhütte. Presentation in 1973 on the occasion of a meeting of the State Building Administration of the State of Baden-Württemberg . Münsterbauverein, Freiburg (1986?).
• The change in the Breisach rood screen in 1960 . In: Our Münster , ed. from the Münsterbauverein Breisach. Issue 1, 1990, last page.

literature

• From our work. Community of Christian Artists Archdiocese Freiburg 6, 1966, no p.
• KH Türk: Man and Stone - Sepp Jakob, a middle-generation sculptor . In: The natural stone. Specialist magazine for stone masons, stone sculptors, architects and building authorities 1969, p. 512ff.
• From our work. Community of Christian Artists Archdiocese Freiburg 7, 1970, p. 40.
• B. Sch .: Josef Jakob . In: Das Münster 47, 1994, pp. 181–182.
• Sepp Jakob 1925-1993 . In: Ottobeurer Heimatbuch 2014, pp. 88–89.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Brommer : Art on the Tuniberg . In: Badische Heimat 51, 1971, p. 85, 97, 98.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Jakob: Tasks and problems of the Freiburg Münsterbauhütte. 25 years of restoration on the main tower . In: Badische Heimat 64, 1984, p. 280; Jakobusblättle 2, 1991, 45 Fig. 48 ( digitized version ).
3. ^ Hermann Brommer: Art on the Tuniberg . In: Badische Heimat 51, 1971, p. 90, 97, 98.
4. ^ Hermann Brommer: Art on the Tuniberg . In: Badische Heimat 51, 1971, p. 90, 97, 98.
5. ^ Hermann Brommer: A St. Morandus statue on the Tuniberg . In: Annuaire de la Société d'Histoire Sundgauvienne 1965, pp. 155–156; Hermann Brommer: Art on the Tuniberg . In: Badische Heimat 51, 1971, p. 91, 97, 98.
6. ^ Hermann Brommer: Art on the Tuniberg . In: Badische Heimat 51, 1971, p. 86, 97, 98.
7. ^ Hermann Brommer: Art on the Tuniberg . In: Badische Heimat 51, 1971, p. 94, 97, 98.
8. ↑ Sepp Jakob working on the bust ( memento of the original from November 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
9. ↑ Baden-Württembergische Biographien 4, 2007, p. 416.
10. ^ Rosemarie Beck, Roland Meinig: Fountain in Freiburg . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1991, ISBN 3-7930-0550-X , p. 26.
11. ^ Page at the University Hospital Freiburg
12. ↑ Jakobusblättle 2, 1991, 44 fig. 47 ( digitized version ).
13. ↑ Lindenberg-Kreuzweg at freiburg-schwarzwald.de .