Josef Anton Hops

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Josef Anton Hops (born June 2, 1720 in Mietingen ; † May 20 or 23, 1761 in Villingen ) was a German sculptor and painter.

Life and works

Josef Anton Hops belonged to the artist family Hops; his father was the sculptor Johannes Hops , two of his older brothers, Johann Adam and Franz Magnus Hops , were also known as sculptors.

According to Thieme-Becker, Josef Anton Hops was a student of Johann Michael Feichtmayr , with whom he probably furnished the monastery church in Zwiefalten towards the end of the 1740s . Ulrike Kern also thinks it is possible that he learned from Joseph Christian from Riedlingen , who also worked in Zwiefalten. In 1748 he applied for and obtained citizenship in Villingen, and in 1749 he married the widowed Maria Katharina Schilling. Her first husband, the sculptor Joseph Schupp , died on April 26, 1748. With the marriage, Hops gained the opportunity to continue his workshop. One of the witnesses was a Karl Christian, who later headed the Abbey of St. Trudpert in the Black Forest as Abbot Columban and probably belonged to the Christian family of sculptors.

Hops created the pulpit for the Benedictine Church (former St. Georgen monastery church) in Villingen and at least also the lower altar structure - the superstructure is lost - and from around 1750 the high altar figures of Zacharias and Elisabeth for the Bickenkapelle and later other works that were added to the municipal Villingen's collections were transferred: a cabinet from the St. John's sacristy, an epitaph from 1761, a standing crucifix and the kneeling figure of Antonius Eremita , as well as a model of the Benedictine church altar . Ulrike Kern attributes its unwieldy size to the fact that the high altar of the St. Georgen monastery church in Villingen was saved from destruction in the course of secularization . With this altar, which Hops had to repair in 1760, a Madonna and the figures of St. Anne and St. Joachim were preserved.

In the 1750s Hops worked for the Carmelite Church in Rottenburg and created the statues for the pulpit and six altars, as well as the Immaculata above the organ. They fell victim to secularization in 1806.

The apostle figures Thomas , Philippus and Jakobus the Younger in the Donaueschingen parish church, which Hops carved in 1753 and which were captured by Franz Anton Wittmer , date from roughly the same time as the Rottenburg works of art . There are also two large rococo consoles from 1758. A saint Aloisius and an Immaculata, which were originally created for the church in Grüningen , also came to Donaueschingen. A mirror frame, which was initially in the Maggi-Grasselli house, was then transferred to the Donaueschingen rectory.

Hops created a stone sculpture of St. Margaret of Antioch in 1755 for the provost of the former St. Margarethen monastery in Waldkirch . In the following year, he completed the altars for the church in Langenenslingen , which his late brother Franz Magnus had begun and which have not been preserved.

According to Thieme-Becker, there is a wall epitaph by Josef Anton Hops in the side chapel of the monastery church in Hedingen, while Kern speaks of an epitaph in the rectory in Villingen in 1986, where other works by Hops can be found. In Stuttgart , a Saint Joachim and Anna herself belong to the museum holdings in the Old Castle ; according to Kern, there is a Saint Joseph with a child in the parish church in Bad Dürrheim .

Josef Anton Hops apparently died childless. He may have been the teacher of one of his nephews, John Paul Hops . However, it is also possible that Johannes Paul Hops, born in 1734, learned from his father Johann Adam Hops.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So Ulrike Kern 1986, p. 10.
  2. ↑ So Hops, Josef Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924.
  3. ↑ The museum. ( Memento from October 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: typo3server.info. Elztalmuseum Waldkirch, accessed on October 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hops, Josef Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hops, Joseph Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Mietingen
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1761 or May 23, 1761
Place of death Villingen