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279 Philipp Jakob von Scheffauer: Portrait relief of Margrave Karl Friedrich of Baden (from 1803 Elector, 1806 Grand Duke).

 Finely executed oval plaster relief of the Margrave of Baden and later first Grand Duke in uniform with the breast star of the Prussian High Order of the Black Eagle.

Signed on the arm section: "Scheffauer fec.1802". In a contemporary gilt wood - stucco frame with laurel and oak leaves.

Probably a study for the relief finally executed in marble in the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe.

Height. 65 cm ( m.R. 90 cm).

Philipp Jakob von Scheffauer (* 7 May 1756 in Stuttgart; † 13 November 1808 in Stuttgart) was a German sculptor. The footman's son was a fellow student of Dannecker at the Hohe Karlsschule. Immediately after completing his training he was appointed court sculptor in 1780 and in 1783 was sent to Paris and Rome for further studies together with Dannecker. In 1789 the two artists received orders to return to Stuttgart. One year later, at the same time as Dannecker, Scheffauer became professor of sculpture at his former training school, while retaining his post as court sculptor, and worked there until it was dissolved in 1794. He also received the Württemberg Order of Civil Merit, which was associated with personal nobility. In 1790 he married Johanna Christina Carolina Heigelin. He died after a long illness and is buried in Stuttgart's Hoppenlauf Cemetery (tomb of Antonio Isopi). One of his works, a portrait of the Württemberg Duke Friedrich II (1803 Elector, 1806 King Friedrich I), influenced successor works by the artists Martin von Muralt and Joseph Wilhelm Ludwig Mack. His mourning genius can be found in Stuttgart's Steigfriedhof. Klopstock's tomb in the cemetery of the Christianskirche (Ottensen) is decorated with a relief by Scheffauer (1804), an allegorical representation of the mourning religion leaning against an urn. Even during the early planning for the Valhalla near Regensburg, Scheffauer was commissioned in 1808 to create a marble bust of Johannes Kepler, modelled on Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll's Kepler bust for the Kepler Monopteros in Regensburg. However, it was never erected there, but replaced by a bust of Kepler by Peter Schöpf. Scheffauer's bust is now in the vestibule of the Kepler Memorial House in Regensburg. 

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