Joseph Sebastian Felix Breitenauer

Joseph Sebastian Felix Breitenauer (baptized January 14, 1761 in Eichstätt ; † 1829 in Vienna ) was a draftsman and engraver in Eichstätt and Vienna.

The Breitenauer family monument in the Eichstätter monastery and parish church of St. Walburg

Life

The parents were the sculptor Joseph Anton Breitenauer (1722–1785), who moved to Eichstätt as a journeyman from Hochaltingen im Ries, and his wife, the Eichstätter baker's daughter Maria Anna née. Baier (1728-1790). Joseph Sebastian had seven siblings, among them Ignaz Alexander Breitenauer (1757-1838), who like his father worked as a sculptor in Eichstätt, and Franz Xaver Breitenauer (1765-1823), who taught as a sculptor at the Imperial Academy in Vienna. In Eichstätt, Joseph Breitenauer is documented as a draftsman and engraver until 1789. Then he went to Vienna, where he is listed in the student directory of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1797 and subsequently worked as a “very skilled draftsman and engraver”. On the Breitenauer family monument in the monastery and parish church of St. Walburg , created in 1821 by Ignaz Alexander, Joseph Sebastian is listed as the second to last with his date of birth. In a Viennese artist directory from 1821 he is named as a “portrait painter”, lives in Josephstadt No. 74. He died in 1829 in Vienna, impoverished. There is no further evidence as to whether he acted as “master of drawings” at the Vienna Academy, as noted in the death entry of the magistrate.

His work has remained almost unknown. Four drawings, which are in the graphic collection of the University Library Eichstätt and have the name "Jose: Breüdeneüer", are attributed to him. In 1974 a larger ink painting (as a copper engraving draft?) Of the Seleucid legend was described for the first time, which, according to the explanation on the edge of the picture, was created by "Joseph Breitenauer à Eichstaedt 1785" and is ascribed to him (and not to his father, who died in August of the same year) .

Works

• Woman's head, pencil drawing, approx. 29 × 23 cm, 1783 (in the graphic collection of the Eichstätt University Library)
• Male head, pencil drawing, approx. 29 × 23 cm, 1783 (in the graphic collection of the Eichstätt University Library)
• Cattle and horse heads (study sheet), pencil drawing, approx. 22 × 25 cm, 1783 (in the graphic collection of the Eichstätt University Library)
• Man in Tailcoat and Hat (recto and verso) (sheet with movement studies), approx. 20.5 × 33.5 cm, pen and brown ink over pencil (in the graphic collection of the Eichstätt University Library)
• Seleucid saga, ink painting, 57 × 81 cm, 1785 (attribution by Mager) (private collection)

literature

• Wilhelm Schmitz: History of the Breitenauer family . In: Collection sheet of the Historical Association Eichstätt. 3, pp. 54-58 (1888)
• Oskar Freiherr Lochner von Hüttenbach : Joseph Anton and Ignaz Alexander Breitenauer princely Eichstätt court sculptors (1757–1838) . In: Collective sheet of the Eichstätt Historical Association , 25/26 (1910/11), pp. 45–85
• Edwart Mager: An unknown Breitenauer (= Joseph Sebastian Breitenauer). In: Historical sheets for the city and district of Eichstätt . 23 (1974), No. 4, p. 13 (with ill.)
• Klaus Walter Littger: 100 Years of the Eichstätt Historical Association 1886–1986. Exhibition (skatalkog) . Eichstätt 1986, pp. 107–111 (with ill.)
• Jutta Mannes: Ignaz Alexander Breitenauer 1757–1838. Studies of life and work. Eichstätt 2006 (= collective sheet of the Eichstätt Historical Association, 99th year 2006/07), in particular pp. 18, 90 (footnote 11)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schmitz, p. 57; v. Hüttenbach, p. 55 (footnote 2)
2. ↑ Mannes, p. 18
3. ↑ v. Hüttenbach, p. 51
4. ↑ See [1]
5. ↑ Mannes, p. 18 (footnote 15)
6. ^ Mager, p. 13
7. ^ Mager, p. 13
8. ^ Mager, p. 13