Johann d. Ä.
Dußel (Dusel)

Father of Johann the Younger, candlestick maker, became master on Aug. 20, 1726,

1765 juror; his portrait is in the juror book of the Rotgießer. Mz: Sun. In 1759, he was awarded the position of prisaun master among several applicants; previously, he had served as a Viennese ordinarius mate and had been attacked, robbed, and injured by robbers while traveling from Vienna in 1749.

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-ASCHAFFENBURG, Stadtpfarrk. St. Peter and Alexander: epitaph for Jakob Merkel, canon († 1769).

-NUREMBERG, Johannis- u. Rochusfriedhof: at least 20 epitaphs (father u. son), Verz. s. KDM Nürnberg, 1977.

-ROTHENBURG/ Tauber, cemetery: bronze epitaph of Johann Balthasar von Staudt († 1775).

Lit: AKL; Thieme-Becker; Lockner no. 1258; Stengel, in: GNM M, 1918/19, p. 149; BFFK 1936, p. 106; Ress, KDM Rothenburg, 1959.

(quoted from the Nuremberg Künstlerlexikon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb).

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