Johan Keller
Other names: John Keller
Born November 1863
Died 1944
Active: 1898 - 1911
Country of birth and death: Netherlands
Sculptor, teacher of modelling
Born the Hague, he settled briefly in Paris where he worked for a waxworks and exhibited at the Salon in 1896. Two years later Keller moved to Glasgow, where he was a key exponent of the Glasgow Style. Later he returned to Holland where he spent the latter part of his life. Whilst in Glasgow Keller worked with the architects, James Salmon II and J. Gaff Gillespie. He modelled the statue representing 'Religion' on the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Works
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Bust
1899
Terracotta
1900 (Circa)
Portrait
1900
Fortune
1901
St John
1903
Loreley
1903
St John
1905
Andante
1906
Prof. John Cleland, MD, LLD
1906
Portrait Bust of Prof. F. Cleland, MD, LLD, FRS
1907
Portrait Bust
1907
Portrait bust
1911
Statuette
1911
Medallion Portrait
1911
Temptation
1911
Sea Lions
1915
Pelicans
1915
Bears
1915
Locations
Address Albany Chambers Sauchiehall Street Glasgow | View on map
1898 - 1900
Address 534 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow | View on map
1899 - 1911
Address 7 Woodside Place Lane Charing Cross Glasgow | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Care of The Glen Helensburgh | View on map
1915 (Circa)
c/o James Torrance
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Directed The Glasgow School of Art: Modelling Classes
1898 - 1908
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Third, 1899
'Bust'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Ninth, 1905
'St John'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eightieth, 1906
'Prof. John Cleland, MD, LLD'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Fifth, 1911
'Portrait bust'
Exhibited at Thirty-Ninth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1900
Multiple works
Exhibited at Forty-Second Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1903
Multiple works
Exhibited at Forty-Sixth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1907
Multiple works
Exhibited at Jubilee Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1911
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1915
'Sea Lions'
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Institutional and Business Connections
Adjudicated on a panel at The Glasgow School of Art
1905 - 1906
Judge for Modelling Diploma
Adjudicated on a panel at The Glasgow School of Art
1908
assessor on Modelling committee
Engaged by Walter Macfarlane & Co.
1900 (Circa)
Executed woodcarving in the interior of 22 Park Circus, Walter Macfarlane's place of residence.
Member of Artists Teacher's Exhibition Society
1911 - 1916
Exhibition catalogue - no year given
Professor of modeling at The Glasgow School of Art
1900 (Circa) - 1910 (Circa)
Director of Antique, Life and Figure Design.
Professor of Life and Composition (1908)
Teacher of modeling at The Glasgow School of Art
1898
Master of Modelling
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with Albert Hemstock Hodge
1911 (Circa) - 1915 (Circa)
Produced portraits and architectural sculpture together for architects James Salmon II and J Gaff Gillespie
Shared studio with Alexander Proudfoot
1914 - 1915 (Circa)
Proudfoot had been Kellers pupil at the Glasgow Scool of Art
Taught William Reid Dick
1905 - 1907
In 1906-7 Reid Dick took a day life class with Johan Keller.
Taught Phyllis Muriel Cowan Archibald Clay
1906 - 1907
Phyllis took a day life class in modelling with Johan Keller
Taught Mary Buchanan
1915 (Circa)
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1901-1902 Seventy-Fourth Annual Publication
p. 1260
Listed under sculptors
Listed under Sculptors The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1910-1911 Eighty-Third Annual Publication
Occupation given in 1901 Scotland Census
'Artist, sculptor and teacher of modelling'
Sources
1901 Scotland Census
2007
Parish: Glasgow Barony; ED: 1; Page: 8; Line: 10; Roll: CSSCT1901_297
Annual Report of The Glasgow School of Art 1898
January 1898
p. 1
Annual Report of The Glasgow School of Art 1898
January 1898
p. 4
Annual Report of The Glasgow School of Art 1908-9
1908
p. 5
'Gold Medallist, Amsterdam, 1891'
Artist Teachers' Exhibition Society - Constitution & Rules and ephemera
in Exhibition catalogue - no year given
Glasgow - City of Sculpture
1 January 2002
Site accessed 5/3/09
International Exhibition Glasgow, 1901,
Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section
1901
Prospectus of The Glasgow School of Art, Session 1905-06
1905
The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1901-1902 Seventy-Fourth Annual Publication
1901
p. 1260
Listed under sculptors
The Glasgow Post-Office Annual Directory for 1910-1911 Eighty-Third Annual Publication
1910
p. 1393
Citing this record
'Johan Keller', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1213106253, accessed 23 Mar 2023]
