Dominik Auliczek

Dominik Auliczek ( born August 1, 1734 Polička, † April 15, 1804 in Nymphenburg, Munich today ) was a sculptor of Czech origin. He was inspector of the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, court sculptor and created statues for the Nymphenburg Park.

Life

Auliczek went through an apprenticeship with a Bohemian sculptor. He continued his studies in Vienna with Johann Georg Leitner. He then traveled to Paris (1754 ) and London (1755 /56). It was followed by a six -year stay at the Pontifical Academy of Arts in Rome. Here Auliczek made ​​the acquaintance of the architect Gaetano Chiaveri. Pope Clement XIII. presented him with the Artist Order of the Golden Spur.

In 1762 Auliczek settled in Munich. He came here in 1765, the successor of Franz Anton Bustelli as a model master in the Nymphenburg porcelain manufactory at. In 1773 he became inspector of the manufactory and remained so until 1797. Already since 1772, he was entitled under the court sculptor Max III. Joseph. In 1787 he was Hofkammerrat.

Work

Artistic creation Auliczeks had its focus in the design of mythological figures, plastic animal figures and portrait medallions in china. About his work as Oberbossierer in the manufactory beyond his garden sculptures in the Nymphenburg Park became known as the 1777/78 resulting figures of Proserpina with scepter and owl Askalaphos and her husband Pluto with the three-headed hellhound Cerberus, also the statues of Juno with a Peacock and Jupiter with an eagle sitting on a rock, both of 1791 / 92nd They belong to the Roman Anton Boos and created by Giovanni Marchiori part of the image program of Nymphenburg park.