Johann August Nahl
Johann August Nahl, because of his eponymous son called the Elder ( born August 22, 1710 in Berlin, † October 22, 1781 in Kassel ) was a German sculptor and plasterer.
Life
Background, education
Johann August came from a family of artists. His father Johann Samuel Nahl (1664-1727), was from 1704 in Berlin court sculptor Frederick I of Prussia, his mother Eva Maria (nee Borsch ) the daughter of a Berlin goldsmith. His first training was Johann August probably with his father. After his death, the 18 -year-old went 1728/1729 on a journeyman's journey to the stations Sigmaringen, Bern and Strasbourg. From 1731 to 1734 he studied in Paris the works of the famous French Ornamentalisten. A subsequent journey through Italy led him in 1734 to Rome, Florence, Genoa, Bologna, Venice and Naples, and in 1735 to Schaffhausen.
1736 married Nahl in Strasbourg Anna Maria Kindhearted, the daughter of the stonemason, and Strasbourg mayor and received the rights of citizenship. He first worked for the royal French governor François Klinglin and then under Robert Le Lorrain at the Episcopal Palace of Cardinal Armand- Gaston de Rohan - Soubise, now the Palais Rohan.
Berlin
From 1740 to 1746 is Nahl involved in the interior of for Frederick the Great in Berlin and Potsdam built new castles. 1745 he was given the position of Surintendent Ornements. The famous architect Wenzelslaus of Knobelsdorffstraße had at that time as Generalintendent the superintendence of all the royal buildings. In the summer of 1746 he fell out with Frederick II and Johann August Nahl should take over his position. However, this saw because of overwork, unpaid bills and Soldateneinquartierungen in his house and his workshop is no basis for a promising job and left in the same year secretly Prussia and fled over Dresden, Bayreuth and Nuremberg to Strasbourg to his wife's relatives. Frederick the Great had him pursue a warrant, which meant that he was arrested in Strasbourg. That there in 1736 acquired citizenship protected him from extradition to Berlin.
Bern
About Strasbourg he came to Switzerland and bought near Bern Hofgut. Thanks to good jobs, he led there for 9 years, a completed intensive artistic life. His two sons, who later as a sculptor and painter made a name for himself, were born here.
Kassel
1755 called him Landgraf Wilhelm VIII of Hessen to his court in Kassel and instructed him to collaborate on the design of Park and Castle Wilhelm Thal. In 1767 he became professor of sculpture at the Collegium Carolinum and received 10 years later, the same function at the newly founded Academy of Art Kassel.
Descendants
Nahl had a number of children, but for the most part did not reach adulthood. The son of Johann Samuel Nahl the Younger ( b. 1748) was an artist and taught as a professor at the Academy in Kassel. The son of Johann August Nahl the Younger ( b. 1752) was 1801 winners of the advertised price of Goethe in Weimar tasks.
Works
- Strasbourg: At the Palais Rohan not yet explored in more detail work.
- Saint- Saphorin- sur -Morges: Memorial plaque to François -Louis de Pesmes de Saint- Saphorin; inside the parish church of Saint- Saphorin- sur- Morges, inaugurated in 1740.
- Berlin: Features of the new buildings castle of Frederick the Great ( Schloss Charlottenburg, new wing, 1740-1746; Berliner Schloss ( Friedrich apartment); City Palace in Potsdam (East and West apartment), 1743-1744; Schloss Sanssouci, 1746 )
- Hindelbank in Bern: tomb of Hieronymus von Erlach, 1751, as well as a tomb for Magdalena Langhans from 1751 to 1752.
- City Church Thun: Epitaph for Beat Ludwig May
- Kassel: Rossebändiger the racetrack, 1770, and Statue of Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse -Kassel, begun in 1771, completed by his son in 1781. For, designed by François de Cuvilliés Castle Wilhelm Thal, near Kassel, Johann August Nahl the Elder created the precious wall paneling and many stucco.
The created by Nahl grave plate for the pastor's wife died in childbirth Maria Magdalena Langhans in the church Hindelbank in the Canton of Berne in the 18th century was one of the most revered works of art in Europe. Johann Wolfgang Goethe wrote on October 20, 1779 Charlotte von Stein:
" To hear the mausoleum of the parishes to Hindelbanck you will need to have patience, because I have mancherley of it and put forward dabey. It is a text about which there is a long chapter can be read. I wish the same iezt to write it all down. I've heard so much of it and pour ainsi dire verbertucht everything. We speak with an ever- ready enthusiasm of such things, and no one sees it, what the artist has done, what he want to do. "