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Figurativ Columns of the choir stalls of St. Urban
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Attributed to Johann Peter Frölicher  (1662–1723) wikidata:Q96364390
 
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Date of birth/death 11 October 1662 Edit this at Wikidata 26 August 1723 Edit this at Wikidata
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Figurativ Columns of the choir stalls of St. Urban
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The left column with a girl's herm, the right with a boy's herm. The column forms of the Renaissance are continued in a Mannerist manner. They are built up by organic and plant forms of a naturalistic kind. The division into base, shaft and capital is hardly noticeable.

What gives the St. Urban choir stalls their strange character is their opulent richness, the figurative-vegetable columns and their courtly, perfect style. There is nothing parallel to it in Swiss Baroque sculpture, in the ecclesiastical as well as in the secular sphere.
Depicted place two columns of the dorsal wall
Date 1701–1707
Medium oak wood
Object history

In 1853, the government of the Canton of Lucerne sold the choir stalls to the St. Gallen banker James Meyer. The buyer exhibited part of the stalls in the vestibule of the Hotel Drei Könige in Basel, where they were to come under the eyes of as many financially strong foreigners as possible. As early as 1854, the Irishman Stephen Ram actually acquired the entire set of stalls, which he sold to the Earl of Kinnoull at the beginning of the 1860s. Some of the carvings were placed in his Dupplin Castle in Perthshire, Scotland. In 1890, the first director of the Swiss National Museum and English consul, Heinrich Angst, learned of the whereabouts of the choir stalls and initiated negotiations to acquire them back for the National Museum.

After several negotiations, it was finally bought back by the Swiss Gottfried Keller Foundation in 1911. Lord Kinnoull wanted the work to return to its original destination of St. Urban. On 21 April 1911, the Federal Gottfried Keller Foundation concluded a contract with the Canton of Lucerne for the deposition and reinstallation of the stalls at their old location. With the exception of a single crown decoration, only the purely constructive substructure and uncarved parts had to be recreated.
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This is an image of a cultural property of national significance in Switzerland with KGS number
3855
References Adolf Reinle: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Luzern. Band V: Das Amt Willisau mit St. Urban. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1959, (= Die Denkmäler der Schweiz. Hrsg v. Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte, Band 42) S. 369-378
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Object location47° 13′ 56.75″ N, 7° 50′ 25.91″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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