Hauser (family of sculptors)

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The Hauser were a family of sculptors from Upper Rhine, from which artists worked from 1611 to 1842. Her history has been researched by Hermann Brommer and Manfred Hermann .

Since the first names are confusing, a Roman number according to Brommer is also given below.

Family table of the sculptors Hauser and their connection to the Winterhalder family of sculptors (with places of death)
  • Georg Hauser (I) († around 1653 in Kirchzarten ). It is first attested in 1611 on the occasion of the baptism of a child in Kirchzarten. Only a cross in the St. Oswald chapel in Höllental is preserved - at least as a copy after a theft . Because of the Thirty Years' War , he should have received only a few orders.
  • Johann Georg Hauser (II) (* 1611, † 1660/61, both in Kirchzarten), son of the aforementioned. He belonged to a Freiburg guild . Four of the twelve reliquary busts of the Freiburg guilds are preserved in the Augustinermuseum Freiburg. They were first carried through the streets of Freiburg during the procession on Corpus Christi day 1653. However, the busts are only ascribed to him.
  • Franz Hauser (1651–1717) (III) (* 1651 in Kirchzarten, † 1717 in Schlettstadt in Alsace ), son of the aforementioned. He learned his trade from his stepfather Johann Conrad Winterhalder (1640–1676) in Kirchzarten and then worked partly in Schlettstadt, partly in Freiburg, where he was accepted into a guild, and Kirchzarten. Above all, the figures of the high altar in the parish church of St. Gallus in Kirchzarten have been preserved. His work belongs to the baroque .
  • Franz Xaver Anton Hauser (1712–1772) (IV), also called "Anton Xaver" or just "Xaver" (* 1712 in Schlettstadt, † 1772 in Freiburg), son of the aforementioned. He belonged first to a Strasbourg and later to a Freiburg guild. The numerous preserved works include the side altars in the St. Gallus Church in Kirchzarten and busts of St. Barbara and St. Ottilie on the high altar there. He worked in the Rococo style.
  • Franz Anton Xaver Hauser (1739–1819) (V), mostly called "Franz Xaver" (* 1738, † 1819, both in Freiburg), son of the aforementioned. He belonged to the Freiburg guild "Zum Mond" and was a guild master for many years. His best-known surviving work is the Last Supper group in a chapel on the north aisle of the Freiburg Minster . Since the 1890s, he joined the neo-Gothic . His three sons all became sculptors.
  • Joseph Franz Xaver Hauser (VIa) (* 1778, † 1842, both in Freiburg), Johann Baptist Hauser (VIb) (* 1781 in Freiburg, resided in Vienna in 1838) and Franz Xaver Hauser (1793–1838) (VIc) (* 1793, † 1838, both in Freiburg), sons of the aforementioned. Works by the Hauser workshop from the 19th century are likely to have been joint works by the father and three sons, for example some of the gravestones in the old cemetery in Freiburg. With the last deceased, Joseph Franz Xaver (VIa), the family of sculptors died out after 230 years of prosperity.

Franz Xaver Anton Hauser (1712–1772) had besides Franz Anton Xaver Hauser (1739–1819) from another marriage a sculptor son Johannes Thaddäus (* 1750, † 1770, both in Freiburg), who was only twenty years old, and two sons who became barrel painters and, among other things, painted and gilded sculptures by their sculptor relatives. Joseph Alois Hauser (* 1753, † 1830, both in Freiburg) gilded the wall sconces in the former Freiburg Redoutensaal . Vinzenz Hauser (* 1759, † 1831, both in Freiburg) collected works by his stepbrother Franz Anton Xaver Hauser (1739-1819) in the St. Ottilien Chapel and the Loretto Chapel in Freiburg and in the Freiburg Minster as well as carvings by Joseph Dominik Glänz in the Muenster. The children of these two barrel painters also took up the profession of their fathers.

literature

  • Hermann Brommer: The sculptors Hauser in Kirchzarten, Schlettstadt and Freiburg i. Br. (1611-1842). The biographies (part I). In: Schau-ins-Land 89, 1971, pp. 47–93 ( digitized version ).
  • Hermann Brommer: The sculptors Hauser in Kirchzarten, Schlettstadt and Freiburg i. Br. (1611-1842). The biographies (part II). In: Schau-ins-Land 94/95, 1976/77, pp. 165-200 ( digitized version ).
  • Manfred Hermann: The sculptors Hauser in Kirchzarten, Schlettstadt and Freiburg / Br. 1611-1842. The work (part 1). In: Badische Heimat 52, 1972, pp. 2–151.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Sauer : The church art of the first half of the 19th century in Baden. In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 57, 1930, pp. 1–207, ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ The second part of this list of works has not been published.

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