Adam Wagner

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Self-portrait of Adam Wagner, under the art clock of the old town hall in Heilbronn
Figure decorations on the stairs of the old town hall in Heilbronn
Tomb of Wilhelm von Massenbach

Adam Wagner (* in Wüstung Lichtenfels , today in Dornhan -Leinstetten; † 1594 in Heilbronn ) was a German sculptor.

Life

He lived in Heilbronn from 1574 and became a citizen of the city on October 28, 1577. Around 1580 he married the Heilbronn citizen daughter Agnes Zapf. In 1593 the spouses sued each other at the council. Adam was imprisoned, when he was released he had to issue a primal feud . In spring 1594 he died in Heilbronn, his widow survived him until 1603.

Act

In 1577 he was commissioned by Count Eitel Friedrich IV von Zollern to create the coat of arms and decoration of the gate between the Marstall and the Hofgarten in Hechingen (total loss). In 1581 he worked at the Heilbronn town hall and created the sculptural decorations on the outside staircase. In 1587 he created the tomb of Dietrich von und zu Gemmingen in the castle courtyard in Gemmingen . In 1591/93 he and his student Jakob Müller created the tomb of Christian Wilhelm v. Massenbach in the church of Massenbach (preserved). In 1593 he applied for work in Heidelberg. Adam Wagner was the brother of Pankraz Wagner. Adam was also known for his series of sculptors in Heilbronn and in Württemberg in Franconia .

Moriz von Rauch ascribes several tombs of the same type to Wagner:

  • Tombs in the Heilbronn Historical Museum:
    • Syndic Stephan Feyerabend
    • Johann Wendel Anns
    • Mayor Johann Hofmann
    • Franz Birker
    • Balthasar Aff
  • other tombs
    • Alrechte in front of Hausen in the town church in Urach
    • Christoph von Helmstatt in the Church of the Dead in Neckarbischofsheim and the gate from 1590 there.
    • Gregorius Kugler
    • Maria Wilhem born Gruber

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Bach: The builders and sculptors Heilbronn . In: Neckar newspaper . No. 3 . Heilbronn 1884 (advice from Karl Hermann ).
  2. ↑ a b Moriz von Rauch: Sculptor Adam Wagner and his successors in the Württemberg Franconia . In: Staats-Anzeiger für Württemberg . No. 11 , November 18, 1925, p. 236–243 (special supplement to the State Gazette for Württemberg).
  3. ↑ Wagner, Adam . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 27 .
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenfels desert , today in Dornhan -Leinstetten
DATE OF DEATH 1594
Place of death Heilbronn