Creator Bio
Johann Adam Boller
1679–1731
Johann Adam Boller was one of a family of silversmiths whose workshops in Frankfurt-am-Main produced ritual objects for Frankfurt’s Jewish community. The family included his brothers-in-law, Johann Valentin Schüler, Johann Michael Schüler (b. 1650), and his father-in-law Michael Schüler. Boller and the Schülers were the first to produce a new type of Hanukkah lamp, for home use, that became popular in the Jewish community in Frankfurt in the early eighteenth century.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Silver Hanukkah Lamp
This silver Hanukkah lamp is an example of a new type for home use that became popular in the late seventeenth century in Frankfurt am Main. Designed to resemble an ancient menorah, it has a central…
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Hanukkah Lamp
This magnificent cast-silver Hanukkah lamp, modeled on the ancient menorah, was created in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The legendary Judith stands at the top, surrounded by animals and angels below…