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| Choir Stalls of St. Urban | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Choir Stalls of St. Urban |
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Each half of the choir stalls is 13 m long and symmetrical. In the back row it comprises 16 seats, the two westernmost of which are bent at right angles, facing the high altar. The front row, without a parapet, has ten seats, asymmetrically interrupted by a staircase. The back wall of the stalls is vertically divided by fancy columns of figurative and plant elements and decorated with reliefs in three zones of different heights. The baldachin-like projecting, slightly cranked entablature carries a rich crowning of fully sculptured figures, waap groups and openwork ornamentation. The entire stalls are made of oak. The columns form the most artistically outstanding part of the stalls. They can be recognised as the work of the main master Peter Frölicher. This lively sequence of columns, overflowing with sensual joy, does not contain an iconographic programme. Christian and predominantly antique-pagan figures are united here in a typical Baroque work. The figures on the crowning are probably the work of Urs Füeg. They show a style of lyrical, almost nervous tenderness in contrast to this robustness. The twelve apostles, led by Christ on the Epistle side and by Mary on the Gospel side, are delicate figures, wrapped in fluttering robes with a graceful pleating. They are 110 cm high on average. The reliefs are arranged in three zones. The lowest ones depict scenes from the Old Testament; not in historical order, but as they may serve as prefiguratio or foreshadowing of the New Testament scenes above. These form the main sequence with their drilled frames. The uppermost sequence of scenes mainly depicts parables and incidents from the teaching activity of Christ. The sequence begins at the east end of the northern stalls and ends on the opposite side of the southern stalls. |
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| Depicted place | Linker Teil des Chorgestühls von St. Urban | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1701–1707 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Oak and walnut (reliefs only) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | two double-row choir stalls à (length x width x height) 12.5 × 2.5 × 5.3 m (41 × 8.2 × 17.3 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Own work | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object location |  | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap |  |
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