Adolf Dauher

Lamentation of Chirsti (1519), in the Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité church in Saverne

Adolf Dauher the Elder (* between 1460 and 1465 in Ulm ; † between 1523 and 1525 in Augsburg ; also Adolf Daucher ) was a German carver and sculptor of the early Renaissance .

Life

In the workshop of Michel Erhart Dauher was with his son Gregory as a carver and carpenter trained. After completing his training, he moved to Augsburg as a young master in 1490. Gregor Erhart , the son of his teacher, followed him in 1494 and moved into Dauher's house. Initially, the young artist had difficulties with the local handicraft, as he employed sculptors and painters in his workshop. Nonetheless, Dauher quickly became prosperous and acquired various houses in Augsburg, for example a house in the tax district of Salta zum Windpronnen in 1496, and a second outside the Sankt-Gallen-Tor in 1509. His sons Adolf and Hans also became famous sculptors. The former was best known for the choir stalls and the pulpit from 1550 in the Heiligkreuzmünster in Schwäbisch Gmünd . Hans worked a lot with his father and, like him, is counted as part of the Ulm school .

Works (selection)

• 1493 Simpertus altar in St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg
• 1495 oak box , master builder vault of Augsburg town hall
• 1498 early altar in St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg
• 1502 high altar in the monastery church Kaisheim , early measurement altar in St. Moritz in Augsburg , both with Gregor Erhart
• 1509 Fugger Chapel in St. Anna's Church in Augsburg, commissioned by Jacob Fugger , an important work of the early Renaissance
• 1514 Preliminary draft model (preserved) and execution model (lost since 1945) for the Lueginsland of the Augsburg city fortifications. The oldest surviving architectural model from the German Renaissance.
• 1519 Lamentation of Christ on behalf of the Saxon Duke Georg for the Strasbourg Bishop Wilhelm von Hohnstein , today in the parish church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité in Saverne (German: Zabern)
• 1520–22 Main altar in St. Anne's Church in Annaberg with his son Hans Daucher

literature

• Julius Baum:  Dauher, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 525 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Adolf Dauher . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 427-428 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Philipp Maria Halm : Adolf Daucher and the Fugger Chapel near St. Anna in Augsburg (= studies on the Fugger history. Issue 6). Duncker & Humblot, Munich a. a. 1921.

Web links

• Dauher, Adolph in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works in the picture index of the Photo Archive Photo Marburg