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Johann August Nahl (22 August 1710 in Berlin – 22 October 1781 in Kassel) was a German sculptor and plasterer.

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 bishop's 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."

Personal life

His great-grandsons were the half-brothers Charles Christian Nahl and Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl, painters of the American Old West.

External links

• (in German) Thomas Weidner: Die Grabmonumente von Johann August Nahl in Hindelbank, Berner Journal für Geschichte und Heimatkunde 1995^{[permanent dead link]}
  • Article written in the Bern journal for local and general history on the monuments made by Nahl in the Hindelbank.
• The Tomb of Madame Langhans., an image of the tomb together with Felicia Hemans's poem on the subject.

References

Much of the content of this article comes from the German language Wikipedia article (retrieved February 25, 2006).

На других языках

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[de] Johann August Nahl der Ältere

Johann August Nahl, wegen seines gleichnamigen Sohnes Johann August Nahl der Ältere genannt (* 22. August 1710 in Berlin; † 22. Oktober 1781 in Kassel) war ein deutscher Bildhauer und Stuckateur. Er gehörte zu den bedeutenden Künstlern des Friderizianischen Rokoko.

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- [en] Johann August Nahl

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[fr] Johann August Nahl

Johann August Nahl, nommé l'Ancien à cause de son fils homonyme (né le 22 août 1710 à Berlin et mort le 22 octobre 1781 à Cassel) était un sculpteur et stucateur allemand, très actif en Suisse.

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[ru] Наль, Иоганн Август

Иоганн Август Наль, также Иоганн Август Наль Старший (нем. Johann August Nahl, род. 22 августа 1710 г. Берлин — ум. 22 октября 1781 г. Кассель) — немецкий скульптор фридерицианского рококо и неоклассицизма.

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