Hans Baur (sculptor)

Hans Baur (born February 26, 1829 in Konstanz , † June 5, 1897 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Hans Baur's father was the Swiss sculptor Johann Baur (* 1789 in Homburg TG , Switzerland; † 1837 in Konstanz), who was a student of the Swiss sculptor Johann Sporer (1720-1759). After graduating from the high school in Constance, Hans Baur had his first encounters with classical art in 1846 as a student of the sculptor Johann Jakob Oechslin in Schaffhausen .

Grand Duke Leopold von Baden granted him a scholarship from 1851 to 1855, which enabled him to continue his studies at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Max Widnmann . After his return to Constance in 1855 he was commissioned to create the colossal statues of St. Conrad and Pelagius on the main portal of the Constance Minster . At the same time a statue of Jan Hus was made .

From 1857 he worked at the art school in Karlsruhe . There he rented a private studio in the new academy building in Bismarckstrasse , where he taught the two sculptors Friedrich Moest and Gustav von Kreß .

In 1862 he moved back to his native Constance. From there he went on a study trip to Paris and Rome from 1863 to 1864. From 1873 to 1877 he taught the sculptor Joseph Franz Baumeister (1857–1933) in Konstanz .

He did not live to see the solemn unveiling of his last work on October 30, 1897. The Kaiserbrunnen on the market place in Constance presented the smaller than life-sized statues of Heinrich III in the niches on all four sides . , Friedrich Barbarossa , Maximilian I and Wilhelm I. The fountain thus legitimized the German Emperor Wilhelm I in the ranking of the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation .

Works (selection)

Konrad, Maria and Pelagius at the main portal of the Constance Minster

Leopold, Ludwig and two other statues at the Rhine bridge in Constance

• Basel
  • Molds for the basilisks on the Wettstein Bridge , designed by Ferdinand Schlöth (1880)
• Karlsruhe
  • Statue of Margrave Ludwig von Baden , the conqueror of the Turks (1858)
• Kehl on the Rhine
  • Colossal statue of Father Rhine for the Rhine Bridge (cast in iron in 1860)
• Constancy
  • Colossal statues of St. Conrad and Pelagius on the main portal of the Constance Minster
  • High relief "Christ calls the troubled and laden" above the north side portal of the minster (1855)
  • Statues of Margrave Bernhard von Baden and Bishop Gebhard von Konstanz on the facade of the minster
  • Statues of Duke Berthold I von Zähringen and Grand Duke Leopold von Baden for the Rhine Bridge near Konstanz (1862–63), moved due to the reconstruction of the Rhine Bridge on the Rheinsteig in Konstanz
  • Bust of the theologian Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg in a blind niche on the facade of the house where he died (1866)
  • War memorial 1870/71 with a statue of Victoria on the Marktstätte (1873)
• Messkirch
  • Bust monument of the composer Conradin Kreutzer in front of the palace (1883)
• Sigmaringen
  • Prince Johann von Hohenzollern - statue (1891)

literature

• Thomas Cathiau: Hans Baur. In: Friedrich von Weech , Albert Krieger (Ed.): Badische Biographien . V. Theil, Heidelberg 1906, pp. 55-59 ( digital.blb-karlsruhe.de digitalisat).
• Pauk Kühn: Baur, Hans . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 88 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Baur, Hans . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 7, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , p. 626.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 31 f. retrobibliothek.de
2. ↑ artnet.de: Johann Sporer , accessed on March 9, 2010.
3. ↑ Entry in the matriculation database .
4. ↑ Heinz Schmitt (Ed.): Monuments, fountains and free sculptures in Karlsruhe 1715–1945 (= publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives Volume 7). 2nd edition, Braun, Karlsruhe 1989, ISBN 3-7617-0264-7 , p. 686.
5. ^ Joseph August Beringer : Baumeister, Joseph Franz . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 82 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
6. ↑ altbasel.ch: The basilisks on the old Wettstein Bridge . Accessed February 3, 2010; Stefan Hess , Tomas Lochman (ed.): Classical beauty and patriotic heroism. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891). Basel 2004, p. 212.
7. ↑ illustrations .

Web links

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