Jan van Logteren
Sculptor of the Northern Netherlands
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| Intro | Sculptor of the Northern Netherlands | ||
| Places | Netherlands | ||
| was | Artist Sculptor | ||
| Work field | Arts | ||
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| Birth | 1 January 1709, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands | ||
| Death | 1 January 1745Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (aged 36 years) | ||
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Jan van Logteren (baptized on 8 March 1709 – buried 11 October 1745), was an 18th-century drafter and sculptor from the Northern Netherlands.
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He was born in Amsterdam as the son of the successful sculptor Ignatius van Logteren. 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.