Franz Xaver Hauser (sculptor, 1793)

Franz Xaver Hauser (mostly just called Xaver Hauser, "Hauser VIc" after Hermann Brommer ; * October 10, 1793 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † January 28, 1838 ibid) was a representative of the Hauser family of sculptors from Breisgau and signed, as did his father in some cases , with X. Hauser .

Xaver Hauser was the youngest of three sons of the sculptor Franz Anton Xaver Hauser . While the eldest son Joseph Xaver (1778–1842) continued the workshop, his brother Johann Baptist (* 1781) married in Vienna. After initial hesitation, Xaver decided to join the Freiburg building guild for the moon, where he was appointed master in 1828.

He mostly focused on works for the outdoors, including a statue of John Nepomuk for a bridge over the Dreisam (destroyed). He also created tombs, such as the one for the guild master Anton Schlosser in the old cemetery in 1829 in the form of a pyramid with a ball and ouroboros . In addition to his brother, he was involved in 1831 on the tombstone for Uncle Vinzenz Hauser (1759-1831), who had worked as a gilder at the Bertoldsbrunnen .

In 1828 he created the four church teachers on the lower choir stalls at Freiburg Cathedral . The other parts were made by the master joiner Joseph Glänz (1778–1841). The choir stalls were destroyed in the 1950s, but the four figures have been preserved in the Freiburg Münsterbauhütte.

Franz Xaver Hauser was 45 years old, remained single and left no heirs, so that his estate had to be auctioned.

literature

• Hermann Brommer : The sculptors Hauser in Kirchzarten, Schlettstadt and Freiburg im Breisgau. Part II. In: Schau-ins-Land 94/95, 1976/77, pp. 165–200, here pp. 190–194 ( digitized version ).
• 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 , pp. 164-172, here p. 165.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Freiburger Münsterbauverein (ed.): The Freiburg Minster . Regensburg 2011, p. 94.