Hieronymus Hau

Picture in the cloister of the Upper Swabian monastery Ottobeuren

Hieronymus Hau (* 1679 in Kempten ; † November 4, 1745 there ) was a Swabian painter . The district and the little castle with a hood in Kempten are named after his last name . The building was initially referred to as Hau'ges Schlößle , until the name Haubenschloß became established. Hieronymus was born in the hooded castle and lived there, the house belonged to him.

Life

The painter Hieronymus Hau was born as the only child of the businessman Sigmund Hau and his wife Anna Katharina. Hau never knew his father, who took his own life shortly before the birth of his only son. The artistic talent of Hieronymus Hau was already discovered in childhood. His first training as a painter took place at the Ottobeuren monastery and with the Hermann family of painters, from which Franz Georg Hermann also comes.

The artist traveled to Italy in 1712. There in Rome he expanded his knowledge of the technique of painting. When Hieronymus was back in the Allgäu , he was considered a good portraitist and made a significant contribution to the decoration of the monastery in Ottobeuren. In 1717 he married Anna Margarete Daumüller. Their daughter married Johann Adam Kesel in 1762 .

In addition to his artistic activity, Hieronymus Hau was also a magistrate of Kempten and church caretaker of the St. Mang Church. Hau died on November 4, 1745.

Works

His works also include an altarpiece, which hangs in the residence in Kempten today , and several portraits of the Kempten prince abbots. The painting Christ on the Cross, which the painter gave to the church in 1726, hangs in the St. Mang Church in Kempten . Through his connection to the painter Franz Benedikt Hermann , Hieronymus received most of the work assignments in the Ottobeurer monastery. For this monastery he created paintings of 42 saints and 39 pictures with motifs from the Old and New Testament, two of which are missing and 37 are hanging in the cloister of the monastery.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Anna Köhl, Ralf Lienert: Creative Minds. Streets and their namesake in Kempten . Tobias Dannheimer publishing house, Kempten (Allgäu) 2007, ISBN 978-3-88881-056-5 , p. 22nd f .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Hau, Hieronymus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1679
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kempten
DATE OF DEATH	November 4, 1745
Place of death	Kempten

[KrKö-1] Anna Köhl, Ralf Lienert: Creative Minds. Streets and their namesake in Kempten . Tobias Dannheimer publishing house, Kempten (Allgäu) 2007, ISBN 978-3-88881-056-5 , p. 22nd f .