Hans Georg Mozart

Hans Georg Mozart (baptized April 20, 1647 in Augsburg ; † November 19, 1719 there ) was a German master mason of the Baroque period and master craftsman at the Augsburg cathedral chapter .

family

Mozart was the second son of the respected master bricklayer David Mozart , the progenitor of the Mozart family of artists . Johann Evangelist Engl states that this progenitor David died on January 28, 1685 at the age of 65 and that his marriage to Maria (née Negeler) had four children: Hilaria (November 14, 1643 to March 26, 1682), Daniel (March 15, 1645 to 1683), Hans Georg, Franz (* October 3, 1649), the great-grandfather of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . The brothers all worked as masons.

Mozart was married twice and had 11 children:

• since October 1, 1679 with Rosina (nee Pollinger), but she died three years later, two weeks after the birth of the third child, who was only two days old.
• since January 30, 1684 with Ursula Widemann. From this marriage eight more children were born; it lasted until her death in 1715.

After the death of his brother Franz, Mozart took over the guardianship of his son Johann Georg, the later father of Leopold Mozart and grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Career

On October 30, 1679, Mozart passed the master's examination for the masonry trade. In April 1680 he received from the city of Augsburg the master craftsman's righteousness - as inherited from his father - and thus the authorization to work as a master mason. It is believed that he spent the previous apprenticeship together with his brother Franz with his father. A few years earlier, in 1677, the two brothers, who were earning extra income as a corpse bearer, had carried a dishonor, namely an executioner servant , to their grave and had received a fine for this, which was later waived . In 1681 Mozart acquired a stately property in Äußere Pfaffengäßchen in Augsburg's cathedral district.

In the autumn of 1687, Hans Georg Mozart became master craftsman at the Augsburg cathedral chapter. The appointment was preceded by a recommendation from Prince-Bishop Christoph von Freyberg-Eisenberg , as well as an intercession by Mozart's brother David, at the time a preacher in the Augustinian Canons of St. Georg in Augsburg . Hans Georg Mozart retained the office even after Freyberg-Eisenberg's death in 1790. In 1689, Mozart became head of the Augsburg masons' guild, again in 1690, 1705 and 1712. He was involved in building projects until his death in 1719, most recently on the Fugger- Houses in Augsburger Maximilianstrasse.

Works

Han Georg Mozart initially worked together with his father David, among other things presumably on a private house in Dillingen , in today's Königstraße 44 and on the tower of the pilgrimage church Our Lady in the Moos in Kicklingen (today in Dillingen). Later he built, among other things, the house of the Augsburg mayor in Maximilianstrasse; it was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1944.

Main building of Gut Mergenthau

Parish Church of St. Adelgundis (Anhausen)

Structures that have been preserved and are certainly attributable to Hans Georg Mozart are

• Convent building of the Augustinian Canons of St. Georg in Augsburg, 1705
• Tower of St. Michael in Augsburg-Pfersee , 1693
• Bräuhaus in Stadtbergen , 1695
• Choir renovation, tower tower and new nave by St. Adelgundis in Anhausen , 1708, 1711 and 1716
• New choir and tower by St. Blasius in Hirblingen
• Gut Mergenthau near Kissing, 1713

Kissing Castle is uncertain about the construction time and authorship of Mozart .

Movie

• Immersed in eternity: Augsburg - the Bavarian city of Mozart , a film documentary by Bernhard Graf , BR , 2011, a search for traces of Hans Georg Mozart, his ancestors and relatives
• Mozart, the true story, a film documentary by Bernhard Graf , BR , 2012, a documentary game about Hans Georg Mozart, his ancestors and famous relatives
• Mozart's secrets, a documentary film by Bernhard Graf , BR , 2019, a search for traces of Hans Georg Mozart, his ancestors and relatives

literature

• Johann Evangelist Engl: I. Hans Georg Mozart . In: Festschrift for the Mozart centenary celebration in Salzburg on July 15, 16 and 17, 1891 . H. Dieter, Salzburg 1891, p. 10–11 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Mozart, Hans Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 207 .
• Gabriele Krist-Krug: Hans Georg Mozart (1647–1719). Baroque master builder of a famous family from Augsburg: life and work. Wißner, Augsburg 2006, ISBN 3-89639-522-X .
• 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

1. ^ Johann Evangelist Engl: The great-great-grandparents of WA Mozart . In: Catalog of the Mozart Museum in Mozart's birth and living room in Salzburg . 4th edition. International Mozarteum Foundation, Salzburg 1906, p. V – VI ( Text Archive - Internet Archive , Text Archive - Internet Archive - see also the family tree).
2. ^ Johann Evangelist Engl: I. Hans Georg Mozart . In: Festschrift for the Mozart centenary celebration in Salzburg on July 15, 16 and 17, 1891 . H. Dieter, Salzburg 1891, p. 10–11 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments : ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Äußeres Pfaffengäßchen 24. ) Accessed on January 2, 2012.
4. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Dillingen adDonau, Bürgerhaus, Königstraße 44. ) (with picture); Retrieved January 12, 2012.
5. ^ Georg Dehio: St. Georg . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . E. Wasmuth A.-G., Berlin 1905, p. 35 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
6. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Filialkirche St. Michael, Augsburg-Pfersee. ) Retrieved on January 2, 2012