Jean-Joseph Kapeller
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Jean-Joseph Kapeller (24 July 1706 – 29 November 1790) was a French painter, architect and
Kapeller and Michel-François Dandré-Bardon co-founded Marseille's Académie de peinture et de sculpture, with Kapeller becoming its director-rector in 1771 and giving classes in drawing and gemotery there which were attended by his main pupil Henry d'Arles. Kapeller was also a major figure in freemasonry in the city, becoming grand master of the Chevaliers de l'Orient lodge. He also became rector of the third order Franciscans at the Récollets in 1745 and a member of a chapel of penitents. Famous in Marseille in his own time, he seems to have never become much known outside Provence and most of his works are now lost, though some now hang in public collections in Toulon and Marseille.
Life
Early life
His father Jean-Georges had been born in Meilen,
Jean-Joseph Kapeller married Anne-Marie Mouren on 24 January 1723 in the collegiate church of Saint-Martin.[A 2] The couple had two children, Marie-Eugénie (called "widow Mullard" in Jean-Joseph's will of 1778[A 3]) and Pierre-Paul (a painter and teacher who was made an associate of the Académie in 1753 and settled in the Spanish colonies in South America, specialising in still lives of shellfish[4] and exhibiting at the Académie de peinture in 1757).
Founder-member of the Académie de peinture de Marseille
Teacher
Kapeller's knowledge of architecture caused the Académie's permanent director Dandré-Bardon to make him its permanent professor of geometry, teaching classes which comprised "elementary geometry, transcendental geometery and sublime geometry which applied
Kapeller was lastly professor of "mechanics" (what is now known as orthography) according to the terms in the Académie's lists.[6] The previous years' issues of the Almanach historique de Marseille by Grosson showed that Kappeler already ran a "school of mathematics, drawing and of civilian and military architecture" in his home on rue d'Aubagne.[A 4]
According to professor Régis Bertrand, Kapeller seems to have retained his roles at the Académie until 1787 : an octogenarian, he was thus replaced by architect Jacques Dageville (1723–1794).[A 5]
Pupils
In Marseille he combined his roles at the Académie with that of police commissioner (a purely honorary and unpaid role) for 16 years.[7]
Masonic Grandmaster
Member of religious associations
Works
Paintings
In public collections
Unknown location
Collector
Architect and geometer
Legacy
Contemporary mentions
Exhibitions
Art sales
References
- ^ Jeffares, Neil. Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 (PDF).
- ^ Alain Corbin, Le Territoire du vide : l'Occident et le désir du rivage (1750–1840), Paris, Aubier, 1988
- ^ (in French) Ouvrage collectif, Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et des arts de Marseille : années 1893–1896, Marseille, Barthelet, 1897 (notice BnF no FRBNF32813506), p. 494.
- ISBN 2-7449-0254-3.
- ^ Étienne Parrocel, Annales de La Peinture, Discours et Fragments, Marseille, Imprimerie Clappier 25, rue Saint-Ferréol, 1867 (notice BnF no FRBNF31061684), p. 239.
- ^ (in French) Léon Lagrange, Revue de Marseille au profit des pauvres, vol. 5, no 1, Marseille, Typographie et Lithographie Veuve Marius Olive, janvier 1859, p. 158
- ^ (in French) Étienne Parrocel, « Discours préliminaire sur l'Académie de peinture et de sculpture de Marseille », Réunion des Sociétés des beaux-arts des départements, Paris, Plon-Nourrit, 15 au 19 avril 1884, huitième session, p. 76 et 77