Ignaz Alexander Breitenauer

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Ignaz Alexander Breitenauer (* 1757 in Eichstätt , baptized on May 3, † May 4, 1838 ibid) was a court sculptor of classicism and drawing teacher in Eichstätt.

Life

The parents were the sculptor Joseph Anton Breitenauer (* 1722, † 1785), who moved to Eichstätt as a journeyman from Hochaltingen im Ries, and his wife, Maria Anna, born in Eichstätt. Baier (* 1728; † 1790). He had two older and five younger siblings, including Joseph Sebastian Felix Breitenauer (* 1761; † 1829), who worked as a copper engraver in Eichstätt and later in Vienna , and Franz Xaver Breitenauer (* 1765; † 1823), also a sculptor at the Imperial Academy in Vienna. Ignaz's talent for drawing showed at an early age. However, due to the family's financial circumstances, he was unable to receive appropriate training. He learned sculpture from his father, in 1775/76 from the sculptor Joseph Angerer in Freising , from the age of 19 with Ignaz Engerle / Ingerl (* 1752; † 1801) in Augsburg and 1777–1785 with Roman Anton Boos (* 1735; † 1810) in Munich . From November 8, 1785 - permanently employed in September 1789 - he was court sculptor at the prince-bishop's court in Eichstätt until the secularization in 1802/03 . From 1805 to 1829 he worked as a drawing teacher at the community school and at the Eichstätts grammar school; In 1755 he had also described himself as an ivory worker. In 1811 and 1814 he took part in exhibitions at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1831 he auctioned his own art collection and the corresponding specialist literature. He had remained single all his life .

Zehmen epitaph in the west choir of Eichstätter Cathedral by Ignaz Alexander Breitenauer
Memorial of the Breitenauer family in the Eichstätter monastery and parish church of St. Walburg

Works

  • Larger-than-life sandstone statues of St. Johannes Nepomuk, the Immaculata and St. Dominikus (1781–1785 during his apprenticeship at Ingerl in Augsburg; whereabouts unclear)
  • Apollo, Diana, Bacchus and Ceres statues in Nymphenburg Park (created during his studies with Roman Anton Boos)
  • Crucifix in the choir of the Catholic Church of St. Sebastian and Anna in Sappenfeld (around 1780; attribution)
  • Reliefs flanking the tabernacle on the high altar of the Catholic parish church in Herrieden (1781)
  • Epitaph for Baroness of Ulm (1785)
  • Tomb for Joseph HJ de Battis († 1786)
  • Figures of St. Mary and St. John for the Martinskirche in Greding (1787)
  • Figure of the risen Christ in the Catholic parish church Spalt (1788)
  • Grave monument for Count von Oettingen-Baldern († 1787) in Eichstätter Cathedral (1789)
  • Epitaph for Prince-Bishop Johann Anton III. von Zehmen in Eichstätter Dom (1789/90; signed)
  • Sebastian statue in the Catholic Heilig-Geist-Kirche Eichstätt (between 1790 and 1795; assigned)
  • Epitaph for Karl Heinrich von Riedheim († 1792)
  • Tomb of the Baroness von Freyberg-Hopferau at the chapel of the Eichstätter Ostenfriedhof (rejection of the attribution by Mannes, p. 207)
  • Sculpture of a mourner at the memorial for JF von Pappenheim († 1792) in the park of the old Pappenheim Palace (attribution rejected by Mannes, p. 206) f
  • Two figures of adoring angels (1796; in the monastery of St. Walburg)
  • Epitaph for Christoph Gustav von Eyb († 1797)
  • Holy grave Christ relief in Eichstätter Cathedral (around 1789; attribution)
  • Judas Thaddäus statue (around 1790) and statuette of the risen Christ in the Catholic parish church of St. Walburga in Beilngries (end of the 18th century)
  • Immaculata statue in the choir of the Catholic parish church St. Jacobus d. Ä. in Greding (around 1800; assignment; this "decidedly" rejected by Mannes, p. 209)
  • Two candlestick angels in the Catholic Church of St. Pantaleon in Reuth am Wald (around 1800; assigned; rejected by Mannes, p. 209)
  • St. John the Baptist statue in the Catholic Church of St. Johann Baptist in Biesenhard (after 1800; assigned)
  • Figure of St. Florian (signed; around 1800; in the Württemberg State Museum Stuttgart)
  • Epitaph for Baron von Andlau († 1801), Mortuarium of Eichstätter Domes
  • Model of an equestrian statue for Archduke Karl of Austria (1801)
  • Tomb of Pastor Wolfgang Joseph Sausenhover († 1801) in the Eichstätter Ostenfriedhof
  • Early Classicist decoration of several rooms on the upper floor of the former Prince-Bishop's Residence in Eichstätt (today District Office)
  • Monument to Antonia Riedheim († 1804), cast iron plate from the Obereichstätter ironworks based on a wooden model by Breitenauer
  • Figure of St. Michael (signed; created 1804 or later; formerly in Berlin in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum; destroyed)
  • Adam and Eve Group (1811; in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich)
  • Self-portrait, Albaster relief (1812)
  • Sculpture of the Greek hero Theseus (1813; owned by the Eichstätt Historical Society)
  • Epitaph for pastor Simon Meyer († 1813) at Martinskirche in Greding (assignment; rejection of assignment by Mannes, p. 207)
  • Breitenauer family epitaph in the monastery and parish church of St. Walburg (1821)
  • Relief portrait head of Duke Eugen von Leuchtenberg (1823; owned by the Eichstätt Historical Society)
  • Models for crucifix and St. Petrus depiction on two bells in Pfraundorf, cast in Eichstätt in 1802 (assigned by Felix Mader, Kunstdenkmäler BA Eichstätt, p. 264; bells melted down during World War II )
  • Portal design for the town hall of Eichstätt (1823/24)
  • Gravestone for Katharina Lang († 1826) in the Konstein cemetery
  • Draft for the frontispiece of the Romano-Eichstettense ritual by Prince-Bishop Joseph Graf von Stubenberg

literature

  • Oskar Freiherr Lochner von Hüttenbach : Joseph Anton and Ignaz Alexander Breitenauer princely Eichstätt court sculptors (1757-1838) . In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 25/26 (1910/11), pp. 45–85.
  • Felix Mader: A Thaddäus statue by Ignaz Alexander Breitenauer . In: Calendar Bavarian and Swabian Art 26 (1930), pp. 11-13
  • Erich Herzog:  Breitenauer, Ignaz Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 573 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hugo A. Braun: The hospital church of the Holy Spirit in Eichstätt . In: Heilig-Geist-Spital Eichstätt. Eichstätt 1978, pp. 71-80, p. 80 (footnote 28).
  • Leonhard Tomczyk: Ignaz Alexander Breitenauer (1757-1838). Life and works. Master's thesis at the Catholic University of Eichstätt 1986.
  • Emanuel Braun: Painting, sculpture and handicrafts from the collections of the Eichstätt Historical Association. On the current status. In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 87 (1994), pp. 179–194, esp. Pp. 192f.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia . Munich, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1999
  • Magdalena Schick: The Eichstätter town hall on the market square. Location and function from 1340-1900. In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 95 (2002), pp. 49–76, esp. Pp. 64–69.
  • Leonhard Tomczyk: tomb art of the plait style. Works by the sculptor Ignaz Alexander Breitenauer on the Ostfriedhof in Eichstätt. In: Friedhof und Denkmal 50 (2005), pp. 31–34.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria . Munich, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 2006.
  • Jutta Mannes: Ignaz Alexander Breitenauer 1757-1838. Studies of life and work. Eichstätt 2006 (= collection sheet of the Historical Association Eichstätt, 99th year 2006/07).

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personal data
SURNAME Breitenauer, Ignaz Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor of classicism
DATE OF BIRTH baptized May 3, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Eichstatt
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1838
Place of death Eichstatt