Johannes Hops

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Johannes Hops (baptismal name Johann Baptist Hops , born May 6, 1681 in Eggenthal , † around 1730) was a German sculptor .

Life and works

Johannes Hops was the third son of the shoemaker Georg Hops and his wife Gertrud. On August 12, 1696, an apprenticeship contract was signed with Martin Beichel , who then trained Johannes Hops. After that the young sculptor probably went on a journey; But nothing is known about the stages of this journeyman's time. On July 5, 1707, Hops married, now a master sculptor; in Heimertingen Margaretha Ehrmann or - according to Thieme / Becker - Ehrenmann from Biberach an der Riss . Groomsmen were Hops' Tyrolean master Ignaz Waibl and Adam Bertsch from Mietingen.

From 1708 Johannes Hops ran his own workshop in Mietingen an der Rottum . This place was under the rule of the monastery Heggbach . Johannes Hops and his wife had twelve children between 1708 and 1726, including three sons who also became sculptors: Johann Adam Hops , Franz Magnus Hops and Joseph or Josef Anton Hops .

Among other things, Johannes Hops created the figures of St. Anthony, a nun, St. Philomena, St. Clare and St. John of Nepomuk, which found their place on the side altars of the parish church of Mietingen. They are among the early works of Hops; later he apparently created other figures for the Mietingen church. He also created two carved figures for the Marienkapelle in Mietingen, namely again a St. John of Nepomuk and a St. Joseph. Apparently, Hops in Mietingen was repeatedly commissioned to carve figures for the churches and for private customers.

Outside Mietingen, works by the artist were found in the vicinity of Laupheim and in Erbach near Ulm , also near Ehingen , in the St. Martin church in Unterkirchberg and in Grän in the Tannheimer Tal . There, in the pilgrimage church of St. Wendelin, there is a group of figures of Anna Selbdritt from 1709 and a saint Joachim, who also dates from 1709. In the Anna Chapel in Vils near Reutte in Tyrol there is a Pietà from 1713 and a group of figures depicting Joseph's dream. A choir arch cross from 1710 and a holy New Year's Eve can be found in Wennedach . Hops' work for the former Cistercian abbey of Heggbach is documented for the year 1715 . A resurrection figure in Walpertshofen dates from 1716. In Grundsheim near Oberstadion , he probably designed the figure and ornamental decorations on the altars in 1720; The signatures on the high altar figures of St. Joseph and St. Antonius are "Johann Hobss 1720" and "JH". The figures were repainted in 1904, which, according to Ulrike Kern's judgment, was disadvantageous. There is evidence that Hops also worked in the area around Riedlingen in 1720 . In Unlingen he created a Joseph with baby Jesus. The former cemetery chapel received all of its figural and ornamental jewelry from the Hops workshop in Mietingen. One of the last known works of the sculptor is a dungeon Christ altar from 1726 in Heiligkreuztal near Riedlingen, which, however, has lost its assistant figures. The Laupheim local history museum houses two grave Christ figures from the years 1716 and 1720.

It is possible that Hops met the later master Joseph Christian in Riedlingen . In any case, the Hops and Christian families later had close contact.

The last works that can be safely assigned to Hops date from the year 1728. They are marked “J. Hobs 1728 “signed. Hops is believed to have died around 1730.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Baptist Hops  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Ruf: Swabian Baroque . Konrad, 1981, ISBN 978-3-874-37184-1 , p. 69 ( limited preview in Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Hops, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hobs, Johann; Hobbs, Johann; Hobss, Johann; Hobs, Johannes; Hobbs, Johannes; Hobss, Johannes; Hops, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Eggenthal
DATE OF DEATH around 1730