Joseph Mattersberger

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Joseph Mattersberger (* 1754 in Windisch-Matrei ; † November 10, 1825 in Breslau ) was an Austrian sculptor and etcher .

Life

Joseph Mattersberger studied sculpture with Johann Baptist von Hagenauer in Salzburg and Joseph Bergler in Passau from 1767 to 1778 . He then deepened his studies in northern Italy for six years, especially in Milan with Giovanni Franchi . During this time, he created six figures of the apostles awarded in Rome and Florence , 18 stucco statues for the great hall of the Milanese residence and four mythological colossal figures that he worked in plaster of paris.

From 1784 Mattersberger was in Dresden in the service of the Russian ambassador, Prince Belosselski-Belosersky. In Lauchhammer he succeeded in the same year, on behalf of Count von Einsiedel, together with Thaddäus Ignatius Wiskotschill , in casting an ancient figure of a bacchante in iron. In the following years he continued to develop iron art casting in Lauchhammer and created numerous images of the von Einsiedel family.

Mattersberger, Basic Rule of Human Proportion
Table 2: Child in the first year

From around 1794 he was court sculptor under Catherine II in Moscow and Saint Petersburg and modeled numerous statues that were executed in marble in the imperial residences and summer palaces.

From 1799 Mattersberger stayed mainly in Breslau and taught there from 1800 (as professor since 1805) clay and wax modeling, wood carving and life drawing at the art, construction and craft school . This is where his basic rule of the proportion of people from 1 to 24 years of age according to the antiquities , in which he made 22 figures on eleven panels “in rough, so-called sculptural strokes” and assigned different proportions to different ages; In doing so, he draws on the ancient representations, but also on Michelangelo , Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael . These boards were also used as teaching material in Prague .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ostdeutsche-sparkassenstiftung.de ( Memento of 9 October 2007 at the Internet Archive ) and wolkenburg-kaufungen.de
  2. ↑ Unlike Ernst Sigismund in the Allgemeine Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler , Müller assumes in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie that Mattersberger did not “touch Breslau” until 1804. He does not name the works that were created in Breslau as early as 1799.
  3. ^ A b Rudolf Müller:  Mattersberger, Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 605.
personal data
SURNAME Mattersberger, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Matrei in East Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1825
Place of death Wroclaw