Franz Anton Xaver Hauser
Franz Anton Xaver Hauser ("Hauser V" after Hermann Brommer ; born January 23, 1739 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † January 25, 1819 ibid) was a German sculptor .
Life
Like his father, Franz Xaver Anton Hauser (1712–1772), he belongs to the great Breisgau sculptor family of the Hauser . He learned his trade in his father's workshop on Nussmannstrasse in Freiburg, which he took over after his father's death, but later had to leave because of an inheritance settlement. In 1774 he was accepted into the building guild for the moon. In 1777 he married and had nine children with his wife. The necessity of moving several times in Freiburg and the early death of his wife in 1795 put him in financial difficulties. His friend and colleague Johann Georg Riescher took over the guardianship of his children. With the help of his three sons, all of whom became sculptors, Hauser was able to continue the workshop. After his death it was taken over by his eldest son Joseph Xaver Hauser (1788–1842) ("Hauser VIa"), with whom the last Hauser sculptor died. His brother and colleague Franz Xaver Hauser ("Hauser VIc") had died four years earlier.
Franz Anton Xaver Hauser earned most of his livelihood by making tombstones.
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If the father was still a Rococo artist , Franz Anton Xaver worked in different styles depending on the wishes of his clients, not least in the neo-Gothic style . His most popular work in Freiburg for a long time, the figure of Berthold III. von Zähringen on the Bertoldsbrunnen , was destroyed in the air raid on Freiburg on November 27, 1944 .
The preserved works include:
- Reliquary busts of the Freiburg guilds, which replaced damaged busts of great-grandfather Johann Georg Hauser (II) from the middle of the 17th century, around 1775;
- two statues of St. Ottilie in the St. Ottilien Chapel in Freiburg , 1780
- the Madonna on the altar of the Freiburg Loretto Chapel , 1784;
- Sculpture in the Catholic parish church of St. Leodegar in Bad Bellingen , 1791–1797;
- the monuments of the four Zähringer Berthold II. , Rudolf von Lüttich , Konrad I and Berthold IV. on the choir screen in the Freiburg Minster, 1793–1795;
- the sound cover of the Gothic pulpit in the Freiburg Minster , 1795 (under the guidance of Johann Christian Wentzinger );
- Wentzinger's tomb in the old cemetery in Freiburg, 1797;
- the tomb of the professor of medicine Georg Carl Staravasnig, who died in 1792, perhaps based on a design by Wentzinger, also an old cemetery;
- the memorial for five monks of the monastery St. Peter in the Black Forest who died in Freiburg and who had to leave the monastery after the secularization in 1806 (1817), commissioned by the former abbot Ignaz Speckle , today in the vestibule of the Michaelskapelle in the old cemetery, previously in a niche in the cemetery wall;
- Gravestones for Thomas Bonauer (1812) as well as for H. Ferenbach and Fr. Xav. Hiller (1812/13) as relief plates on the Church of St. Cyriak and Perpetua .
- the Maria Immaculata on the Kronenbrunnen or Marienbrunnen in Staufen im Breisgau
- Last Supper group in the Freiburg Minster
The Last Supper group in a chapel on the north aisle of the Freiburg Minster from 1805 is Franz Xaver Hauser's best-known work. His mission was "to form the Lord's Supper in 13 figures that approach life size as the interior chapel and the table or altar stone on which they sit in the semicircle, to be formed from stone and grouped". According to his biographer Hermann Brommer, he succeeded in doing this:
"In fact, FAX Hauser created thirteen stone figures, whose faces and hands he worked out with great dedication to the work and which, as a successfully assembled group, still impress the viewer today."
literature
- Hermann Brommer: The sculptors Hauser in Kirchzarten, Schlettstadt and Freiburg i. Br. (1611-1842). The biographies (part II). In: Schau-ins-Land 94/95, 1976/77, pp. 165–200, here pp. 166–170. 173-188 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Friedrich Kempf: The old cemeteries in: Freiburg im Breisgau. The city and its buildings , HM Poppen & Sohn, Freiburg im Breisgau 1898, p. 413 ; Ingrid Kühlbacher: You lived in Freiburg. 4th edition. Freiburg im Breisgau, Schillinger Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-89155-057-X , S. #.
- ↑ In the older literature, the date of birth is mistakenly found to be February 8, 1738, s. Hermann Brommer: The sculptors Hauser in Kirchzarten, Schlettstadt and Freiburg i. Br. (1611-1842). The biographies (part II). In: Schau-ins-Land 94/95, 1976/77, p. 166 note 3.
- ↑ a b c d e Michael Klant: Forgotten sculptors. In: ders. (Ed.): Sculpture in Freiburg . Volume 2: 19th Century Art in Public Space . Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , p. 164 f.
- ^ Bernd Mathias Kremer: On the history of the restoration of the Freiburg Minster in the 19th century. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive 121, 2001, pp. 53–84 ( digitized version ). Kremer writes: “The trained eye can immediately recognize the diverging temporal style periods. The sound cover decoration is too schematic, it is somewhat reminiscent of a fretwork and its design language does not find an adequate reference to Jörg Kempf's pulpit. The artist succeeded better in the crowning pinnacles of the lid. "
- ↑ Ursmar Engelmann: The diary of Ignaz Speckle , Volume 2, Stuttgart 1966, p. 548.
- ↑ Wolfgang Kaiser, Gitta Reinhardt-Fehrenbach, Bertram Jenisch, Verena Nübling, with the assistance of Gert Goldenberg, Jean Jeras: District of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. City of Staufen. Münstertal / Black Forest ( monument topography Baden-Württemberg ). 2002, ISBN 978-3-8062-1708-7 , p. 69.
- ^ Hermann Brommer: The sculptors Hauser in Kirchzarten, Schlettstadt and Freiburg i. Br. (1611-1842). The biographies (part II). In: Schau-ins-Land 94/95, 1976/77, p. 183.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hauser, Franz Anton Xaver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and wood carver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1739 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 25, 1819 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |