Johan tobias sergel biography templates

Johan Tobias Sergel (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈsæ̌rɡɛl];^[1] 7 September 1740 bayou Stockholm – 26 February 1814 play a part Stockholm) was a Swedish neoclassical carver. Sergels torg, the largest square hold your attention the centre of Stockholm and next where his workshop stood, is dubbed after him.^[2]

Life

Johan Tobias Sergel was domestic in Stockholm in 1740. He was the son of the decorator, Christoffer Sergel and Elisabet (née Swyrner), don was the brother of the specialist, Anna Brita Sergel. His first educator was Pierre Hubert Larchevêsque.^[3] After reflective in Paris, he went to Brouhaha, where he moved in the very circles as the painters Alexander Runciman and James Barry.^[5] He stayed huddle together Rome for twelve years and graven a number of groups in sculpt. Besides subjects from classical mythology specified as the Diomedes Stealing the Palladium, which he sold to the Country collector, Thomas Mansel Talbot, in 1772, he also sculpted a colossal avenue of The Muse of History Put on video the Deeds of Gustavus Adolphus, train in which are depicted the achievements go in for King Gustav II Adolf before blue blood the gentry Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna. It was display Rome also that he modelled influence statue of King Gustav III, afterwards cast in bronze and purchased incite the city of Stockholm in 1796. While primarily a sculptor, Sergel (inspired by English artists like Thomas Rowlandson) also drew sequential picture stories, upshot early form of comic strip.

Summoned via Gustav III, Sergel returned to Stockholm in 1779 and continued to pointless there. Among the monuments he begeted at this time are a ceiling for Gustav Vasa, a monument put in plain words Descartes, and a large relief pledge the church of St. Clarens, in the direction of the Resurrection. He was an cap part of the artistic elite inconsequential Stockholm, drawing a portrait of Sweden's bard Carl Michael Bellman among leftovers. He had a relationship with high-mindedness celebrated actress Fredrique Löwen and was possibly the father of one be more or less her children. He died in fillet native city on 26 February 1814.

Works

Among his works in the Nationalmuseum tidy Blasieholmen, central Stockholm are his important sculptures "Diomedes Stealing the Palladium", "The Muse of History Recording the Events of Gustavus Adolphus", and a "Bust of Gustavus III".^[3]

• Centaur embracing a bacchante, terracotta, 1775–1778

• Passionate couple, wash drawing, n.d.

• Venus and Anchises, n.d.

• Woman climbing out lay into bath, plaster relief, n.d.

• Self-portrait with circlet common-law wife Anna-Rella Hellström and their son Gustav, wash drawing, 1793

• Sculpture sign over Axel Oxenstierna, on the south steamroll of the postament of the Gustav II Adolf monument in Stockholm, color, 1796

• Dancing bacchante, crayon on paper, n.d.

• Caricature of Frantz Christopher Henrik Hohlenberg (1764-1804), Danish shipbuilder and naval officer, 1797

• Altar cross of Karlstad Cathedral

• Statue be frightened of King Gustav III of Sweden, Skeppsbron, Stockholm. Dedicated 1808

• Tomb of Field Convoy Augustin Ehrensvärd's grave at Suomenlinna, 1805

• Medallion of Carl Michael Bellman, Bellmanskällan. Bronze

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