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Hutin, Charles-François  

Hélène Guicharnaud

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Published online:
2003
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Grove Art Online

(b Paris, July 4, 1715; d Dresden, July 29, 1776).

French painter, sculptor, draughtsman and engraver, son of François Hutin. He studied painting with François Lemoyne and in 1735 won the Académie Royale’s second prize with Rebecca Receiving from Eleazar the Presents Sent to her by Abraham (untraced). Two years later he left for Rome with his father. There, on the advice of Jean-François de Troy, the new Director of the Académie de France, he turned in 1739 to sculpture, studying under Sébastien Slodtz. In 1740, a marble head of Enobarbus (untraced) by Charles-François was among a group of sculptures sent to France from the Académie in Rome, and in the same year he modelled a small group in antique style of Faunus and Biblis (untraced). He returned to Paris in 1742 and in 1744 he was approved (agréé) by the Académie Royale as a sculptor. He was received (reçu) as a full member in 1747...

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Wentzinger, Johann Christian  

Ingeborg Krummer-Schroth

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Published online:
2003
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Grove Art Online

(b Ehrenstetten, Dec 10, 1710; d Freiburg, Aug 1, 1797).

German sculptor, painter, stuccoist and architect . He went to Italy as a journeyman and spent two years (1729–31) in Rome, then six months in Strasbourg. His earliest surviving work is the font at the monastery of St Peter in the Black Forest. From 1735 to 1737 he was in Paris, where he attended and won prizes at the Académie de St Luc. In 1737 he carved the large figures for the high altar of Oberried Monastery, and in 1740 he made eight huge stone figures for the portal (destr. 1768) of the monastery of St Blasien in the Black Forest, and also made models for the stairwell figures. Wentzinger signed the contract for the magnificent tomb of General von Rodt in Freiburg im Breisgau Cathedral in 1743. In 1745 he made a model of the Mount of Olives for the church of St Martin in Staufen (now in Frankfurt am Main, Liebieghaus). For the new building at Schloss Ebnet, near Freiburg, he created the stone relief on the gable, figures representing the seasons in the park and stucco sculptures for the salon, modifying the original plans for the building by decorative embellishments. He also painted the double portrait (...