Hans Daucher

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Hans Daucher , with full name Hans Adolph Daucher , sometimes also called Adolph Daucher, the Younger (* 1486 in Ulm , † 1538 in Stuttgart ), was a German sculptor , carver and medalist of the Renaissance .

Live and act

Daucher's house at Hinteren Lech 2, today a monument in the Lechviertel, eastern Ulrichsviertel

Hans Daucher's father was the sculptor and carver Adolf Daucher (* around 1460 in Ulm, † around 1524 in Augsburg). Both belonged to the Ulm school and worked in Augsburg. Hans Daucher was married to the Anabaptist Susanna Spitzmacher . The couple had three children. A commemorative plaque was attached to the Daucherschen house in Augsburg at the corner of Hinterer Lech 2 and Schleifergässchen . It contains the following text under the heading Place of Meeting of the Anabaptists :

“ On Easter morning, April 12th, 1528, a congregation of the Anabaptists gathered in the house of the sculptor Hans Daucher and his wife Susanna. The city guard blew up the illegal "gathering" and arrested 88 people. They were interrogated, some of them under torture. Most of them were expelled by resolution of the city council. Dorothea Fröhlich , Scholastika Stierpaur and Thomas Paur were branded . Elisabeth Heggenmiller's tongue was cut out. Chief Hans Leupold was executed on April 25, 1528. Susanna Daucher was expelled on April 21, 1528. Because she was pregnant, she was spared the branding. She had to leave her two little sons behind. "

The three hundred and seventy hundredweight stone carvings of the main altar of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Anne in Annaberg-Buchholz , which has been in existence since 1539, comes from either father Adolf or his son Hans Daucher, although the chronological table suggests a joint effort. The work of art was transported in individual parts from the Daucher workshop in Augsburg to the city in the Ore Mountains on the Czech border, 403 km away . In 1522 it was installed in the main choir. The sculptures made from Solnhofen limestone are surrounded by a framework made from ten different types of Italian marble .

Before that, Hans Daucher was involved in the decoration of the late Gothic Augsburg town hall in 1515/16 .

Workshop

According to the works of art, Hans Daucher must have had a very large workshop in Augsburg. One area comprised the production and processing of the huge marble blocks for his sculptures . Another wing had the foundry consisting of the molding shop, the melting shop and the cleaning shop for its small and large sculptures . He also needed a drawing room with a desk and the necessary utensils for his designs. This was mostly done according to living and dissected models, with the artist often doing the dissection himself, after which an additional cellar vault with vats for ice can be concluded.

Works as a sculptor (selection)

Sculptures

St. Annakirche: main altar.

Daucher's group of figures The Lamentation of Christ around 1500 is one of the interiors of Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité in Saverne, Alsace . Daucher was also involved in the interior design of the Fugger Chapel in Augsburg's Anna Church after 1512 . The central Corpus Christi group / lamentation group , the putti on the marble balustrade in front of the chapel and the busts of the choir stalls are his works. The marble monument of the noble von Hürnheim in Hochaltingen im Ries is considered by Schindler to be his main work.

relief

Daucher's activity in the production of reliefs is documented by three traditional plates and an epitaph .

The flagellation of Christ from Augsburg, created around 1520 in Solnhofen limestone , is in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich with the inventory number 23/155. In 1522, in Augsburg, he made the relief Allegorical Battle of Albrecht Dürer with Apelles from Solnhofen stone measuring 22.8 × 16.8 cm. It is in the sculpture collection of the Berlin Bode Museum and bears the inventory number 804. The work was acquired in 1848 from the Harzen Collection. The Holy Family shows his artistry as a Renaissance master in the form of the representation of a spatial perspective with a tapering row of pillars.

  • Daucher: Allegorical duel by Dürer Apelles

  • Daucher: Flagellation of Christ.

epitaph

According to an attribution , the epitaph for the newborns Paul (6 weeks old) and Wolfgang (14 days old) von Freyberg comes from the years 1516 and 1521 in St. Wolfgang zu Mickhausen by Hans Daucher. It is set into the wall next to the choir arch. Daucher represented the two boys and added an inscription about their short life.

Works as a medalist (selection)

Hans Daucher's earliest traditional medal representation of a profile portrait with a bust plinth from 1523 became a popular model, according to Stefan Krause. Hans Maler zu Schwaz used this type in 1520 for his portrait of Anna Regina . In Italy this type of portrait can be found in the following works by Pisanello around 1431/41: Sigismund von Luxemburg and Leonello d'Este . According to the dating, Daucher apparently oriented himself towards painters and the latter towards Italian works. Pisanello was also active as a medalist. These types of portraits of a chest portrait have their origin in the Fajûn portraits .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Schindler: Augsburger Renaissance , p. 8
  2. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Daucher (Dauher), Hans. Volume VII. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1923, pp. 208 f .
  3. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Daucher, Hans. Volume VIII. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1930, p. 328 f .
  4. ↑ Mennonite Congregation Augsburg: Unveiling of memorial plaque Susanna Daucher, April 12, 2013 ; Accessed May 27, 2013; Photography of the blackboard
  5. ^ Stefan Krause: The portrait of Hans painter - studies on the early modern class portrait , Vienna, 2008 (Google-online), p.44. (PDF; 1.9 MB).

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personal data
SURNAME Daucher, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1486
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH 1538
Place of death Stuttgart