Johann August Nahl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johann August Nahl

German sculptor

Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1710

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 22-Oct-1781

Profession: sculptor, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Johann August Nahl (22 August 1710 in Berlin – 22 October 1781 in Kassel) was a German sculptor and stuccist. He was first taught by his father Johann Samuel Nahl (1664–1727), who had been court sculptor of Frederic I since 1704.
At the age of 18, Nahl undertook a journey via Sigmaringen and Bern to Strasbourg, where he worked for Robert Le Lorrain.
In 1731 he went to Paris, then in 1734 to Rome, 1735 to Schaffhausen and then back to Strasbourg.
Here he initially worked for the French royal steward François Klinglin and then later on the bishopal palace of Armand-Gaston de Rohan-Soubise.
In 1736 he earned citizenship in Strasbourg. Nahl is the author of the brass made in honour of Maria Magdalena Langhans, a clergyman's wife who died giving birth, in the church Hindelbank in the Bern Canton - this brass was one of the most admired in the 18th century.
Regarding this, Johann Wolfgang Goethe wrote the following to Charlotte von Stein on 20 October 1779: "In order to hear about the tomb of the clergymen in the Hindelback you will have to have patience, for I have much to tell on, about and for it.
It is a subject about which one could read many a long chapter.
I wish I were able to write everything down right now.
I have heard so much about it and consumed it, so to speak.
People readily speak with firm enthusiasm about such things, and nobody looks at what the artist has done, or indeed wanted to do.
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Alternative names	Handmann, Emanuel
Description	Swiss portrait painter
Date of birth/death	16 August 1718	3 November 1781
Location of birth/death	Basel	Bern
Authority control	: Q360438 VIAF: 281281 ISNI: 0000 0000 6659 7074 ULAN: 500027604 LCCN: nr2002041673 GND: 116445645 WorldCat