Friedrich Hagenauer

Friedrich Hagenauer ( Signum H, FH, FHC (Coleniensis) ; * around 1499 in Strasbourg , † after 1546 in Cologne ) was a German medalist and sculptor.

Life

Friedrich Hagenauer was a son of the carver Nikolaus Hagenauer . The figures on the altar in the Strasbourg Cathedral and on the Isenheim Altar are ascribed to the father .

Friedrich Hagenauer: Medal with a portrait of Konrad Peutinger (1527, bronze)

The dating and signing of his medals shows that Friedrich Hagenauer migrated to Augsburg via Nuremberg , Passau , Regensburg and Salzburg in 1526 . He stayed there until 1532. In Augsburg he was extremely productive, created 100 medals on Augsburg personalities, e.g. B. Konrad Peutinger , Georg Vitil, Margarete von Frundsberg and Anna Rehlinger von Haldenberg. In 1530 he had the opportunity to portray German princes at the Reichstag .

His wandering brought him to the Rhineland via Baden in 1533 . He lived in Cologne until his death, probably 1546/47. There he created what is perhaps his most famous medal on Philipp Melanchthon , who stayed there in 1543/44.

Hagenauer's models were cut into boxwood , the castings from it were mostly one-sided. The design of the medals is characterized by a flat relief, there are many profile representations, the robes were depicted very precisely.

In total, Friedrich Hagenauer created around 235 medals. Along with Hans Schwarz , Christoph Weiditz , Hans Daucher and Matthes Gebel, he is one of the most important masters of the German Renaissance medal.

Medals with the portraits of Sebastian and Ursula Ligsalz in the Bavarian National Museum

A bronze cast of the wooden model of a 1527 unsigned , but typical Hagenauer medal on Ursula Ligsalz († 1551), second wife of the Augsburg patrician Sebastian Ligsalz (1483-1534) can be found in the Bavarian National Museum today .

See also

• List of medalists

literature

• Paul Arnold: Medal portraits of the Reformation , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1967
• Wolfgang Steguweit : European medal art from the Renaissance to the present , SMPK - Münzkabinett, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88609-379-4
• Arthur Suhle :  Hagenauer, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 482 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Hagenauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hagenauer's medals in the Victoria and Albert Museum
• Medals from Friedrich Hagenauer in the interactive catalog of the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stefan Dürre: Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur . EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 176 .
2. ↑ Ferdinand Dahl: Friedrich Hagenauer , in the: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , Part 2 ( Der Steckenreiter. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post from the Numismatic Society of Bonner Münzfreunde eV ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info : The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Episode 87). Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2013, p. 4 (with one illustration); as (PDF document)