Johann Frühwirth

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Johann Frühwirth , also early landlord; Fruewerdt; Fruhwirth, (* 1640 in Vienna , † 13. November 1701 ) was an Austrian sculptor of the Baroque .

Life

Johann Frühwirth can be traced back to 1660 as a journeyman of the sculptor Johann Baptist Fischer in Graz . In 1667 he was granted citizenship in Vienna; later he was a member of the Outer Council. He was related to the sculptor Tobias Kracker through his older sister Eva . In 1666 he married Maria Werner, a sister of the painter Johann Christoph Werner . In 1670 he bought a house on Fischerstiege (No. 375), which he lived in until his death. In 1687 this was also Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach's first address in Vienna .

His sons Johann Gabriel Frühwirth (* March 23, 1668, last mentioned in a document in 1734) and Karl Joseph Frühwirth (* June 2, 1675, † February 17, 1714), were also active as sculptors without any further information being known about them. His daughters were married to artists: Anna Maria with the painter Christian Kerl (1684); Regina with the goldsmith Octavian Cogsel (1687); Anna Catharina with the sculptor Franz Ignaz Bendl (1692).

In 1922, Frühwirthgasse in Vienna- Meidling was named after the sculptor.

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  • 1667 high altar of the church of the Teutonic Order in Vienna (sculptures of Petrus, Paulus, Katharina, Barbara and Antonius; today missing)
  • 1669 three ceilings in the interior of the Vienna Hofburg
  • 1680 with his brother-in-law Johann Christoph Werner: altar in the Hofburg chapel (Holy Trinity and four angels, lost after the altars were demolished in 1751); referred to as court sculptor in this context
  • 1677 Klosterneuburg Abbey , altar in the treasury (broken off at the beginning of the 19th century, lost)
  • 1679 Dreifaltigkeitssäule on the Graben (provisional wooden column showing a mercy seat on a Corinthian column and nine angel figures (for the nine choirs of angels ); replaced by the plague column; appearance based on a copper engraving by Johann Martin Lerch , illustration ),
  • 1679 Figures of St. Joseph and Leopold for the Brunnen am Graben (replaced in 1802 by works by Johann Martin Fischer Fischer)
  • 1681 Klosterneuburg Abbey, work in the tower chapel
  • approx. 1683–1693 Participation in the plague column on the ditch (angel with torch; angel with ducal hat; the six upper reliefs on the base with emblems as well as putti that have not survived on the railing; stylistically strongly influenced by Paul Strudel , pictures )
  • 1681 Klosterneuburg Abbey, work in the tower chapel

He was apparently one of the leading Viennese sculptors of the second half of the 17th century, but his work is difficult to grasp due to the few archival sources and the few surviving pieces.

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personal data
SURNAME Frühwirth, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1701
Place of death Vienna