Franz Mozart (sculptor)
Franz Mozart (baptized October 3, 1681 in Augsburg ; † March 31, 1732 in Straubing ) was a German sculptor in Straubing.
Origin and career
Franz Mozart was the son of the Augsburg bricklayer and builder of the same name , the great-grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a member of the Mozart family of artists . He grew up in the Fuggerei . Nothing is recorded about an apprenticeship in Augsburg; it is believed that Franz spent it with his uncle, the sculptor Johann Michael Mozart, in Vienna after the early death of his father. Around 1706 Mozart moved to Straubing, married Anna Maria (1661–1734), widow of Hanns Georg Fux , who was twenty years older than him , and thus received his sculptor justice and became the city's only civil sculptor. Most of the orders from the Straubing parish of St. Jakob went to him.
Franz Mozart died at the age of 50 and was buried near St. Peter . Simon Hofer (1683–1749), who had married Mozart's stepdaughter, took over the sculptor- fair.
Works
Cosmas Damian Asam contributed painted figures to a nativity scene for which Mozart carved figures in 1707 ; however, they and the numerous works in St. Jakob that can also be proven by Mozart are lost today. Preserved and verifiably by Mozart
- four figures on the side altars of the monastery church in Neukirchen near the Holy Blood , they represent St. Anna and St. Joachim as well as St. Elisabeth and St. Zacharias
- a larger than life head from the main altar of the parish church of the Assumption in Deggendorf , now in the Bavarian National Museum .
Figures on the altar of the monastery church of St. Michael in Metten , portraits of Charlemagne and St. Benedict of Nursia are very likely by Mozart .
Movies
- Mozart's secrets, documentary by Bernhard Graf , BR 2019.
- Mozart - the true story, documentary play by Bernhard Graf , BR 2012.
- Immersed in eternity, Augsburg - the Bavarian city of Mozart, search for traces by Bernhard Graf , BR 2011.
literature
- Adolf Layer : The Augsburg artist family Mozart , Die Brigg publishing house, Augsburg without a year
- Bernhard Graf : Mozart's forgotten ancestors. An artist family from Augsburg and Swabia, Allitera Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-96233-132-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Monastery and parish church . Metten Benedictine Abbey, accessed on January 6, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mozart, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before October 3, 1681 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1732 |
| Place of death | Straubing |