Hans Daucher
Called Hans Daucher full name is Hans Adolph Daucher, sometimes Adolph Daucher, the Younger ( * 1486 in Ulm, † 1538 in Stuttgart), was a German sculptor, carver and medalist of the Renaissance.
Life and work
Hans Dauchers father was the sculptor and carver Adolf Daucher (* 1460 in Ulm, † 1524 in Augsburg). Both were part of the Ulm School and worked in Augsburg. Was married Hans Daucher with Susanna Spitz makers. The couple had three children. On Daucherschen house, which is located in Augsburg at the corner Lech Rear 2 / corner sander streets, a memorial plaque was placed in 2013. It contains under the heading gathering the Baptist following text:
" On Easter morning, April 12, 1528, gathered a congregation of the Baptist in the house of the sculptor Hans Daucher and his wife Susanna. The city guard blew the illegal " assembly" and arrested 88 people. They were, in part, under torture, interrogated. Decision of the City Council, most were reported. Dorothea Fröhlich, Scholastica Stierpaur and Thomas Paur received a brand. Elizabeth Heggen Miller was cut out his tongue. Principal Hans Leupold was at 25.4. 1528 executed. Susanna Daucher was at 21.4. 1527 reported. Because she was pregnant, her branding was spared. Her two young sons she had to leave. "
The three hundred and seventy talents of heavy stone factory image of the main altar since the 1539 Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Anne in Annaberg -Buchholz is derived from either father or his son Hans Adolf Daucher, with reference to the timing chart of a joint work is to be assumed. In some parts of the artwork of the Daucher workshop in Augsburg was transported to the city 403 km away in the Ore Mountains on the Czech border. In 1522, the preparation was carried out in the main choir. The Solnhofen limestone sculptures are surrounded by a framework consisting of ten different Italian marbles.
Previously worked Hans Daucher in the years 1515/16 with in the decoration of the late Gothic Augsburg City Hall.
Workshop
Having the artwork features by Hans Daucher has a very large workshop in Augsburg. An area comprised the manufacture and processing of huge blocks of marble to his sculptures. Another tract had the foundry consisting of the molding shop, the melting operation and the blow for its small and large sculptures. In addition, he needed a drawing room with a desk and the necessary utensils for his designs. This happened mostly after living and dissected models, where often the artist undertook the dissection itself, after which an additional vault with vats of ice cream suggests.
Works as a sculptor (selection)
Sculptures
Dauchers figure group The Lamentation of Christ circa 1500 is one of the interior of Notre -Dame-de -la- Nativity Saverne in the Alsace. Also Daucher was involved in 1512, to the interior of the Fugger Chapel in Augsburg Anna Church. The central Corpus Christi Group / Lamentation, the putti on the marble balustrade in front of the chapel and the choir stalls busts his works. The marble monument of the nobles of Hürnheim in Hochaltingen in the Ries is considered by Schindler as his main work.
Relief
Dauchers activity in the production of reliefs occupy three traditional plates and an epitaph.
The Flagellation of Christ from Augsburg, created in 1520 in Solnhofen limestone, is located in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich with the Inventory Issue 23 / 155th In 1522 he produced in Augsburg the relief allegorical battle of Albrecht Dürer with Apelles from Solnhofen stone in the dimensions 22.8 x 16.8 cm on. It is located in the Sculpture Collection of the Berlin Bode Museum and bears the inventory number 804 The work was acquired in 1848 from the collection of resins. The Holy Family shows his skill as a Renaissance master in the form of the representation of spatial perspective with tapering row of pillars.
Daucher: Flagellation of Christ.
According to a write-up comes the epitaph for the newborn Paul ( 6 weeks old) and Wolfgang (14 days old) of Freyberg from the years 1516 and 1521 in St. Wolfgang to Mickhausen by Hans Daucher. It is recessed next to the chancel arch in the wall. Daucher represented the two boys and added an inscription on her short life time.
Works as a medalist (selection)
Hans Dauchers earliest Medals traditional representation of a profile bust portraits with base of 1523 was a popular template according to Stefan Krause. Hans Maler Schwaz to put this type 1520 with his portrait of Anna Regina one. In Italy, this portrait type found in the following works by Pisanello to 1431/41: Sigismund of Luxembourg and Leonello d' Este. The datings after apparently has Daucher is geared to painters and this. Works of Italian Also Pisanello worked as a medalist. This portrait types of breast portraits have their origin in the Fajun - portraits.
Emperor Maximilian I.
Otto Heinrich von Pfalz -Neuburg, 1527.Staatliche Coin Collection Munich SMM