August Schädler

High altar of the parish church St. Arbogast, Haslach, 1907

August Schädler (born June 22, 1862 in Bergatreute ; † September 28, 1925 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Schadler was the son of an innkeeper. He lived in Ratzenried since 1872 . From 1884 he studied sculpture at the Art Academy in Munich under Max Widmann and worked in Sigmaringen from 1887 ; there he was appointed Princely Hohenzoller court sculptor. Around 1905 he went to Karlsruhe, became a grand ducal court sculptor of Baden and from 1908 to 1910 also worked as an occasional employee for the majolica factory in Karlsruhe . In 1914 Schädler moved to Munich, where he died in 1925 after a long illness.

Works

(Selection)

Monument to Anton von Gegenbaur, Wangen, 1901

Faunkind with pan flute

• Winged altar and 6 angels making music , parish church St. Nikolaus, Schluchsee , 1895 and 1897
• Monument to Anton von Gegenbaur , Wangen im Allgäu , 1901
• Schiller monument on the Bürgle in Jungingen , 1905
• Tympanum, pulpit, stations of the cross, crucifixion group, communion group, figures of the apostles , parish church of St. Bonifatius, Karlsruhe, 1905–1909
• High altar parish church St. Franziskus , Mannheim-Waldhof , 1907 (removed 1953/1954)
• High altar , pulpit and stations of the cross , parish church St. Arbogast, Haslach im Kinzigtal , 1907 (the pulpit donated by Pastor Heinrich Hansjakob )
• Christ figure , St. Franziskus parish church, Mannheim-Waldhof, 1909 (removed in 1953/1954?)
• Altar , church in Cammin, around 1916
• Way of the Cross , 14 stations, parish church St. Johannes Nepomuk , Göllheim , 1921

Majolica:

• Girl with a Bunch of Grapes, 1908
• Holy water font with St. Christophorus, around 1910
• Faun and mermaid
• Faunkind with pan flute, 1910
• Designs for four majolica fountains

literature

• Berthold Büchele: A forgotten artist of the Allgäu. Biographical information on the sculptor August Schädler. In: In the Oberland. Issue 1/2011, pp. 47–49 (with catalog raisonné).
• Schadler, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 548 (deviatingly states Ratzenried as the place of birth).

Web links

Commons : August Schädler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry in the register of the Munich Art Academy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 00100 August Schädler . In: Matriculation database - Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Hrsg.): Matriculation book . tape 3: 1884–1920 , 1920 ( matrikel.adbk.de ).
2. ↑ Nicola Moufang, Hans Thoma, Boston Public Library: The Grand Ducal Majolica Manufactory in Karlsruhe . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1920, p. 49 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Berthold Büchele: A forgotten artist of the Allgäu. Biographical information on the sculptor August Schädler. In: In the Oberland. Issue 1/2011, pp. 47–49 (with catalog raisonné).
4. ↑ Illustration of the figure of St. Nikolaus: kath-hochschwarzwald.de
5. ↑ Schiller was never in Jungingen ( Memento from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ see also archived copy ( memento of the original from August 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ In Büchele 2011 it remains unclear which Cammin is meant.
8. ↑ Illustration: artnet.de
9. ↑ Illustration: zeller.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Figure: zum.de