Joseph Maria Christen

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Joseph Maria Christen: bust of the Countess Ernestine von Montgelas (wife of Count Maximilian von Montgelas), 1822 (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum)

Joseph Anton Maria Christen (22 February 1767–30 March 1838) was a Swiss sculptor.

Life

Christen was born in Buochs, canton of Nidwalden, Switzerland. In 1785 he became a pupil of the portrait painter Johann Melchior Wyrsch in Lucerne, but soon turned to sculpture. From 1788 to 1791 he worked in Rome under the supervision of Alexander Trippel and then settled in Basel.

His works include a statue of Nicholas of Flüe, the group Angelica and Medor (1791), busts of Salomon Gessner, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Hans von Hallwyl, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel, the Countess of Montgelas (pictured) and a herm of the Emperor Napoleon.

In later life he was an inmate of Thorberg Castle, at that time a lunatic asylum, where he died.

His son was Raphael Christen, also a sculptor.

Sources

Christen, Joseph Maria in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

Christen, Joseph Anton Maria in the SIKART dictionary and database, 1998
von Matt, Hans, 1957: Der Bildhauer Joseph Maria Christen, 1767 - 1838. Lucerne: Diepold Schilling Verlag

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Name	Christen, Joseph Maria
Alternative names	Christen, Joseph Anton Maria
Short description	Swiss sculptor
Date of birth	22 February 1767
Place of birth	Buochs, Switzerland
Date of death	30 March 1838
Place of death	Thorberg Castle, Bern, Switzerland

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