Joseph Amann

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Joseph Amann , also Joseph Ammann or Joseph Franz Amann (born January 27, 1720 in Berg ( Tannheim (Tyrol) ), † July 10, 1796 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German sculptor .

Life

The son of Anton Ammann and Maria Zoblin grew up in an alpine high valley belonging to the Ehrenberg lordship, the population of which lived as plasterers from the traveling trade. In 1759 the “sculptor and barrel maker ” married Anna Katharina Kienle, daughter of Conrad Kienle and Eva Mantzin from Endingen, in the old St. Peter's Church in Endingen at the Kaiserstuhl . The immigrant sculptor had to pay 100 guilders for naturalization and was accepted into the guild at the same time. The marriage had six children, including Joseph Ignaz, who succeeded him as a sculptor. In addition to sculpting, Amann ran his wife's agriculture. When, after 1780, in the course of Josephinism, monasteries were closed and church orders also collapsed in Upper Austria , property sales kept the family afloat. In 1788 the family sold their house and farm, moved to Freiburg im Breisgau and bought the house "zum Weißen Löwen" in Pfaffengasse (today: Herrenstrasse). There Anna Katharina died of dysentery in 1794 at the age of 64 , her husband died two years later.

plant

From 1759 to 1770 Amann was a proper master craftsman in Endingen and trained apprentices. He created the high altar table with a tabernacle structure and the two large side altars for the new Baroque building of St. Peter's Church in Endingen, which were completed in 1780 and decorated with paintings by Johann Pfunner . Little is known about his other sculptural activities.

literature

  • Hermann Brommer: Amann, Joseph . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 2, Seemann, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-363-00115-0 , p. 541.
  • Dagmar Zimdars (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments . Baden-Württemberg II , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, pp. 170, 296 f.
  • Hermann Brommer : Building and Art , in: Bernhard Oeschger (Hrsg.): Endingen am Kaiserstuhl. The history of the city , Alemannisches Institut , Freiburg 1988; Online at endingen.de
  • Hermann Brommer: Tyrolean baroque artists and builders in Freiburg im Breisgau , in: Badische Heimat , Heft 79, 1999, pp. 832–853

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hermann Bronner: Bau und Kunst , p. 454 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Amann, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ammann, Joseph; Amann, Joseph Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Berg ( Tannheim (Tirol) )
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1796
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau