Joachimus Handschucher

Joachimus hand Schucher , including: Joachim hand Schuher , also: Anton Willibald hand Schuher (* 7. January 1681 in Eichstatt , † 5. July 1735 in Rebdorf at Eichstätt) was a sculptor of the Baroque and the Augustinian Canons of the pin Rebdorf .

Life

The art historian Felix Mader suspects that Joachimus Handschucher and Anton Willibald Handschuher, son of the Eichstatter baroque sculptor and mayor Christian Handschuher / Handschucher († 1731) and his (first) wife, Anna Regina from Dachau, used. König (more correctly: his second wife Barbara) († 1722), are the same person. Anton Willibald attended the Jesuit grammar school from 1691 to 1695 in the former Kaisheimerhaus on Eichstätter Jesuitenplatz, not far from his parents' house on Roßmarkt. He had three older siblings, namely Anna Regina married. Schnurer (* 1674), Franz Ignaz (* 1675; † 1746 as Benedictine Father Sebastian in the Wessobrunn Monastery ) and Johann Jakob (* 1679), sculptors in Prague; another brother, the sculptor Vitus († 1703), who worked in the father's workshop, was also probably older than Anton Willibald.

In 1705 he married Johanna Brantan, who died in 1727. He lived on Pfahlstrasse A 82 (No. 13; demolished in 1985). The marriage obviously remained childless. After 1727 Anton Willibald can no longer be identified in the Eichstätter registers. However Monastery Augustinian (probably the monastery name) glove (c) here, the on September 14th 1729 in 1728 appears in the Conventual one Joachimus Eichstätt Cathedral for priests was ordained. Since relief carvings have survived from him, it is very likely that he is the widower Willibald Anton. Almost six years later, Joachimus died at the age of 54 in the presence of convent brothers.

plant

Who created which work in Christian Handschuher's family sculptor workshop can only be proven in a few cases. It is certain that Anton Willibald made two half-length portraits for the Sappenfeld branch church in 1718 . The allegorical carved reliefs on the staircase railing in the staircase of the Rebdorf cloister, which formerly served as pillars of a parapet of the stairwell from the west wing to the prelature and were created around 1730, are just as certain from the Rebdorf canon Joachimus .

The carvings on the chair cheeks of the monastery church of Marienstein, which came to Großnottersdorf around 1833 ("Tähige Schöpfungen", Mader, Hilpoltstein, p. 120) as well as the six medallions with relief carvings from the former Rebdorf choir stalls, which were created around 1730, are attributed to the canon Joachimus from the life of St. Augustine and hang today in the ballroom of the Rebdorf monastery.

literature

• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. I City of Eichstätt . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1924, reprint 1981, p. 442, footnote 1
• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. III District Office Hilpoltstein . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1929, reprint 1983, p. 120
• Theodor Neuhofer and others: 800 years of Rebdorf Abbey . Schnell & Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1967, especially p. 28
• Josef Höcherl: Rebdorf's canons of the Windesheim time . In: Collection sheet of the Historical Association Eichstätt. Volume 85, 1992, pp. 94f. (No. 142)
• Josef Höcherl: Rebdorf Abbey. From the foundation to the present . Kloster, Rebdorf 1996, especially p. 56f.

Web links

• Short biography (PDF; 1.4 MB)