Johann Nepomuk Haller

Johann Nepomuk Haller (born March 1, 1792 in Innsbruck , † July 23, 1826 in Munich ) was an Austrian sculptor. He mainly worked on behalf of the Bavarian royal family.

Pencil drawing shows Johann Nepomuk Haller (undated)

Johann Nepomuk Haller, child with dolphin in the Nymphenburg palace gardens

Life

Johann Nepomuk Haller came from a poor family. His training began with an apprenticeship in wood carving in Imst . A first sculptural training followed in the same place. From 1818 Haller attended the art academy in Munich .

Haller succeeded in gaining the favor of Crown Prince Ludwig and, subsequently, of King Max Joseph . So in 1817 he was commissioned to create the colossal statues for the niches on the front side and in 1818 the statues in the gable of the Glyptothek in Munich . Haller worked in Rome from 1819 at the expense of the Bavarian royal family . There he worked in the circle of the German Romans around Joseph Anton Koch for around four years. An illness forced him to return to Munich in 1823, where he died in 1826.

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On behalf of Ludwig, Haller created the models for statues of Hephestus , Prometheus , Daedalus , Pheidias , Pericles and Hadrian for the niches in the front of the Glyptothek. Haller's work is the bas-relief in the hall of gods in the Glyptothek, depicting Jupiter's victory over the giants. He also made the models of three figures for the gable of the Glyptothek. In the execution in marble , however, the figures were changed.

Haller made a fountain putto for Nymphenburg Park in 1818 based on a design by Peter Simon Lamine . The sandstone figure Child with Dolphin shows a boy riding a dolphin; the animal is designed in the form of a fish-like monster in the form common at the time.

Haller also modeled various portrait busts , including those of Joseph von Fraunhofer and Leo von Klenze . The portrait bust of Wilhelm III is also by him . (Orange) in the Walhalla near Regensburg.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Haller, Johann Nepomuk . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1861, p. 242 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Haller, Johann Nepomuk . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 431.
• Josef Ringler : Haller, Johann Nepomuk . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 518-519 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Haller, Johann Nepomuk . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 4 : Görres – Hittorp . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094654-8 , p. 383 ( books.google.de - reading sample).

Web links

• Johann Nepomuk Haller in the collection of the Pinakothek