Franz Högl

Franz Anton Högl's tomb in the Gertrudenfriedhof

Franz Anton Högl - also Franciszek Antoni Högl - (born June 13, 1769 in Warsaw ; † May 3, 1859 in Oldenburg ) was a German sculptor .

life and career

Högl came from a family of sculptors and was the son of master stonemason Josef Högl (1741–1780) and Constantia geb. Lascowska. His years of travel led Högl over St. Petersburg , London and Paris in 1804 to Oldenburg. There he was initially the only stonemason and sculptor based in the city. It can therefore be assumed that he was involved in state and private buildings from 1804 to around 1840 as part of the classicistic redesign of Oldenburg. His collaboration in the reconstruction of the castle is documented for the year 1809. From 1820 he stuccoed the ceiling of the mausoleum of the ducal-Oldenburg house on the Gertrudenfriedhof . At the beginning of the 1840s he had to pass his workshop on to his son Eduard Demetrius due to increasing blindness.

Grave of Albrecht Ludwig von Bergers and Christian Daniel von Finckhs in the Gertrudenfriedhof in Oldenburg

It is proven that Högl's work is the grave memorial for the chancellery councilors Berger and Finckh , which was commissioned by Duke Peter I at the Gertrudenfriedhof in 1824 and erected by Högl based on designs by the architect Heinrich Carl Slevogt . The execution of the mausoleum of the conducting minister Holmer , designed by Georg Siegmund Otto Lasius and built shortly after 1806 in the Gertrudenfriedhof, is attributed to him. Another important work is the point de vue vase on Schlossplatz in Oldenburg, which was erected shortly after 1805 according to plans by Joseph Bernhard Winck .

A door frame of the deer pharmacy (1804), the reliefs of the gable fields of the military school on the horse market (1838) and the castle guard (1839) as well as the figure of the psyche in the city ​​museum are also attributed to Högl, but without being able to be documented in the archives.

The Högls grave monument designed by his sons is also located in the Gertrudenfriedhof in Oldenburg.

family

In 1805 Högl married Anna Sophie Klüsener (1783–1854) from Osternburg . The couple had twelve children, of whom the sons Eduard Demetrius (1805–1885) and Heinrich Konstantin (1813–1874) were also sculptors. The grandson Bernhard (1843-1893) and the great-grandson Ernst (1880-1914) also worked in this profession in Oldenburg. A nephew was the Methodist preacher Franz Klüsner, known in Oldenburg and East Frisia .

literature

• Högl, Franz Anton. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 317-318 ( online ).