Jan van Logteren
File:Ariadne door Jan van Logteren 1734 - Huis te Manpad.JPG on the grounds of Huis te Manpad in Heemstede, by Jan van Logteren, 1734]]
Jan van Logteren (baptized on 8 March 1709 – buried 11 October 1745), was an 18th-century draftsman and sculptor from the Northern Netherlands.
Biography
He was born in Amsterdam as the son of the successful sculptor Ignatius van Logteren.[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/92063 Jan van Logteren] in the RKD He became his father's pupil and assistant who continued his father's workshop (in November 1732) in statuary and decorative stucco reliefs for the wealthy mansion owners of Amsterdam. In 1734 he married. In 1737 his daughter was baptized in a hidden church He stopped working in 1741. Van Logteren died on an early age, probably of silicosis.
Van Logteren was a friend of Jacob de Wit, a catholic painter. His most famous work today is the stucco work he made for the Christiaan Müller organ in the Grote Kerk, Haarlem. Other works by him in Huis te Manpad, and Moses and Aaron church.
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References
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- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/jan-van-logteren/past-auction-results Jan van Logteren] on Artnet
Sources
P.M. Fischer (2005) Ignatius and Jan van Logteren. Beeldhouwers en stuckunstenaars in het Amsterdam van de 18de eeuw. Bezorgd door E. Munnig Schmidt.
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Category:18th-century Dutch sculptors
Category:18th-century Dutch male artists