Christian gloves

Johann Christian Handschuher , also Christian Handtschucher or Christian Handtschuch (* 1651 in Unterbergen ; † July 5, 1731 in Eichstätt ) was a German baroque sculptor in the Dachau region and especially in the Eichstätt monastery .

Former glove shop in Eichstätt

Life

He was born in Unterbergen in the Fuggerschen Grafschaft Schmiechen ; the parents were the farmer Aegid Handtschucher and his wife Maria. On January 15, 1670 Christian married the Dachau sculptor widow Anna Regina König, b. Lauttenschlager, and received Dachau citizenship on February 7, 1670. The following year the couple moved to Rain am Lech . In its vicinity, the Eichstatt Benedictine convent of St. Walburg owned the (later) Hofmark Gempfing since 1035 ; Presumably through a relationship there, the Handschuhers eventually went to Eichstätt. They named their first son Vitus, the name of the saint to whom the parish church of Gempfing is consecrated. On April 3, 1686 his wife Anna Regina died in Ingolstadt . In the same year Christian married Barbara Schneider on July 27th in Eichstätt. She died on June 10, 1722 at the age of 70, as evidenced by a grave slab in the center aisle pavement of the Eichstätter monastery and parish church of St. Walburg; Christian Handschuher had created various sculptures on behalf of the monastery.

From the first marriage there were five children, namely

• Vitus (* 1672; † 1703 as a sculptor in Eichstätt),
• Anna Regina (* 1674 in Eichstätt; married to the Eichstätter dyer Johann Andreas Schnurer),
• Franz Ignaz (* 1675 in Eichstätt; † 1746 as Benedictine Father Sebastian in the Wessobrunn Monastery ),
• Johann Jakob (* 1679 in Eichstätt; citizen and sculptor in Prague ) and
• Anton Willibald (* 1681; sculptor; very likely identical to the canon Joachimus Handschucher of the Augustinian Canons of Rebdorf, who died in 1735 ).

Christian Handschuher owned house B 155 on Roßmarkt, where he also ran a general store. In 1686 he became Eichstätter councilor and 1705 mayor; as such he died at the age of 80. From his time as mayor, two paintings he donated in the town hall of Eichstätt have been preserved until the 1920s, as the art historian Felix Mader reports. His coat of arms could be seen on one of these paintings: gloves crossed at the bottom, three ears of wheat at the top.

Works

Who created which work in Christian Handschuher's family sculptor workshop can only be verified in a few cases.

Façade figure of St. Willibald at the Eichstätter Spitalkirche

Epitaph of the Prince-Bishop Johann Martin von Eyb

Crucifixion group in the sign of the parish church Nassenfels

Secured works

• Side altar in Viehbach , 1668;
• Holy Spirit dove for the council chamber in Dachau, 1670;
• High altar design for Oberbachern , 1673;
• Coat of arms of Prince-Bishop Marquard II. Schenk von Castell in the Sappenfeld branch church , 1680 (son Willibald Anton created two half-length portraits for this church);
• Sculpture for the new construction of the parish church in Pietenfeld , 1689 (the high altar there was given to Nuremberg in 1922 );
• Sculpture for the former baroque altars of the Eybschen and Baldensteinschen chapels in Eichstätter Dom , 1692/93;
• In 1695 gloves for sculpting work for the collegiate church of St. Vitus and St. Deocar in Herrieden received 410 guilders (the high altar, on which other Eichstatt artists also worked and which cost a total of 2669 guilders, was transported to Herrieden on 17 wagons);
• Altar (figures?) In the parish church of St. Vitus of the Hofmark Gempfing near Rain am Lech, belonging to the St. Walburg monastery, 1696;
• three of four life-size figures on the facade of the Eichstätter Spitalkirche (St. Willibald, St. Walburga, St. Elisabeth; the fourth figure, St. Martin, created by son Vitus), around 1700;
• Sculpture for an altar for the St. Salvator von Eitensheim cemetery chapel , 1718;
• carved St. Sebastian for the church in Adelschlag ;
• three sculptures for the St. Michael cemetery chapel in Berching .

Attributed works

The following works are also attributed to him or his workshop through stylistic and temporal comparison:

• Several epitaphs in the Eichstätt cathedral and in the mortuary of the cathedral;
• Vitus relief on the former Dompropstei (today Luitpoldstrasse 2) in Eichstätt, 1672;
• Coat of arms of Eichstatt Bishop Johann Euchar Schenk von Castell at Hofstetten Castle , around 1694;
• Wooden figure of a painful Mother of God, which Felix Mader found in 1928 in a chapel in Hofstetten;
• St. Willibald, life-size wooden figure at the Kopfmüllerhaus in Eichstätt, probably from the Buchtaltor;
• St. Willibald, life-size stone figure above the entrance to the gate hall of the Willibaldsburg Eichstätt (with dated bishop's coat of arms , 1713);
• Half figure of a Madonna at the Mariahilf Chapel in Eichstätter Westenstrasse;
• Angel figures on the high altar of the parish church of St. Walburga in Beilngries ;
• Two altars, commissioned in 1696 by the St. Walburg Abbey for the parish church of Böhmfeld ;
• Crucifixion group made of oak in the sign of the parish church of Nassenfels ;
• the Vespers group from a path chapel in the pilgrimage church “Maria End” in Altendorf near Mörnsheim , around 1710;
• Figures on the sound cover of the pulpit of the parish church of St. Michael in Buxheim ;
• Grave monument for Johanna Sausenhofen († 1704) made of Jura marble in the parish church of Dollnstein ;
• Figures in the churches of St. Emmeram and St. Nikolaus in Spalt ;
• Crucifix in Eberswang ;
• High altar figures (trumpeting angels and the coronation of Mary) in the parish church of Möckenlohe ;
• Rosary Madonna in the parish church of Obereichstätt , a “good job” as Mader notes;
• Rosary queen with angel in St. Johannes in Walting ;
• Rosary Madonna in the St. Erhard von Rieshofen branch church , end of the 17th century;
• the figurines hl. Willibald and St. Walburga in Heilig-Kreuz in Schambach in the (middle) Schambachtal, around 1710;
• Wendelin statue in the parish church of Preith ;
• Wendelin statue in the branch church Mantlach ;
• Pulpit figures in the Großnottersdorf branch church from the former Marienstein monastery church near Eichstätt;
• almost life-size Noli-me-tangere group from a path chapel near Heiligenkreuz , now in the church of Kaldorf near Titting , around 1700, “good baroque work” (Mader, Hilpoltstein, p. 202);
• large crucifix with Mater dolorosa in the church of Kaldorf near Titting, around 1700, “efficient Baroque creation” (Mader, Hilpoltstein, p. 202);
• St. Willibald and St. Walburga, around 1700, in the 1920s in the rectory of Erkertshofen near Titting;
• 1808 re-inscribed limestone epitaph with a relief depicting a kneeling pastor and St. Willibald in Heimbach ;
• Side figures of St. Joachim and St. Anna at the northern altar of the Hilpoltstein parish church , 1687;
• Christ Salvator bust and busts of St. Willibald and St. Walburga in the parish church of Morsbach , around 1710.

The figure of St. Willibald on the fountain in the market square was initially Christian Handschuher and is now ascribed to Hans Krumpper .

literature

• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. I City of Eichstätt . Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1924, reprint 1981, esp.p. 310.
• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. III District Office Hilpoltstein . Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1929, reprint 1983.
• A. Beichele: Eichstätts artist . In: Heimgarten 25 (1954) ff.
• Max Gruber: Sculptors who worked in the Dachau region until 1800 . In: Amperland 18 (1982), pp. 253-256, especially p. 254.
• GH (= Gerhard Hanke ): The sculptor Christian Handtschucher . In: Amperland 24 (1988), p. 84.

Web links

Commons : Christian Handschuher  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Figure of an epitaph in Dollnstein, attributed to Gloves