Hubert Maurer

Hubert Maurer ( born June 10, 1738 in Röttgen ( today part of Bonn), † December 10, 1818 in Vienna ) was a German painter, draftsman and drawing teacher at the Vienna Academy.

Life and work

First was a bricklayer students in kurbayrischen court painter Johann Georg Winter (* 1707, † 1770).

In 1762, Maurer continued his education at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was there among others Student of from about 1769/70 mentally ill sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, who wanted to kill him in a fit of paranoia even once.

From 1772 until about 1776, he belonged to a group of first - provided with a board - painters in Rome ( see also German Romans ), where he was also in contact with Anton Raphael Mengs.

Since 1785 Maurer was then a member, the Council and for 32 years a professor at the elementary drawing school of the Vienna Academy.

The Vienna Academy was the largest and most prestigious art school in Europe. The lessons consisted mainly of drawing lessons. Traditionally, the training was divided into three stages. It began with the signing off of original sheets, then followed the drawing after antiques and finally drawing the model. The professors and the directors of the individual schools had to make monthly new template sheets.

Maurer made ​​, inter alia, at the Academy of systematic studies on by masters of the Italian High Renaissance for the collection of teaching resources.

The early Antikennachzeichnungen mason correspond with their " soft style ", without sharp contours, yet the taste of the late Baroque period, but Mark at the Vienna Academy the beginning of the early classicism.

His many students include, inter alia, Karl Agricola, Johann Evangelist Scheffer of Leonhardshoff, Moritz Michael Daffinger ( 1801-1805 ), Ferdinand Georg forest Müller, Anton Spreng, Laurenz Mr. (* 1787, † 1850 ) from 1799, Georg Tömiger, Karl ( 12 years! ) soot, Wilhelm August Rieder, Joseph Stober (* 1768, † 1852), Peter Fendi, Eustatie Altini ( 1772-1815 ), Johann Baptist Lampi II (* 1775, † 1837), Friedrich von Amerling and Johann Michael Sattler ( from 1813 to 1815; Sattler was a friend and biographer Mason, and married in 1816 Mary, the foster daughter Mason ).

In the district of Bonn Lengsdorf the Hubert Mason Street was named after him in 1972.

Works

( not exhaustive)

  • The altarpiece " God the Father in the clouds " at the Vienna Collegiate Church " to the Holy Cross " comes from Hubert Maurer.
  • Side altar in the parish church Maria Schnee, Wiener Neudorf. Links: representations of the Doctors of the Church, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Pope Gregory the Great, about the Lamb of God on a sealed book sealed with seven seals; right: The Dying Saint Teresa with the Apostles Peter and Paul. The facial features of the Holy Theresia Maria Theresia is set, the patroness of the Cardinal.
  • Chapel of the Hofburg in Vienna: " Marriage of St. Catherine with the Child Jesus " (picture at the right side of the altar ).
  • Parish Kalksburg: high altarpiece "Saint Peter ".
  • Possibly the side altar paintings " Madonna with Saints" and "Saint Athanasius and St. Christopher " in the parish church Atzgersdorf.
  • Altarpiece in the church of the " Visitation of Mary ", Zwittau in Moravia, in 1785. ( The two side altars were painted in 1797 by Maurer's disciple George Mason Tömiger under supervision).
  • Altarpiece "The Stoning of St. Stephen " in the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr ( " Szent István első vértanú ", not King Stefan! ) In Papa ( Veszprém ), Hungary, created in 1785.
  • Altarpiece " Ascension " in the Catholic parish church of Balmazújváros, Hungary.
  • Altarpiece " Virgin Mary " in the Catholic Church by Gyula, Hungary.
  • " Circe and Odysseus ," circa 1785, do not sign, not dated, oil on canvas, frame: . 144 x 111 cm. ( Wien Museum, inv 73,001 )
  • " Mary and the baby Jesus surrounded by angels ", pen and brush in gray, heightened with white; Verso has been executed † 1809) under the supervision mason old with pen and, before 1798 (first draft of the altarpiece for the church " to the nine choirs of angels " [ former Jesuit church ] in Vienna, the 1798 by Johann Georg Daeringer (* 1759.. pencil ( by hand? ) called: " Hubert Maurer ").
  • In the Piermarini hall of the Palazzo Accademico of Mantua are three resulting in Vienna Portrait of bricklayer from 1770: Empress Maria Theresa, her husband Franz Stephan of Lorraine and her son, Emperor Joseph II.

Note: A research project at the Vienna Academy " hand drawings of German and Austrian Romance" under the direction of Dr. Robert Wagner concluded, inter alia to the realization that some existing Kupferstichkabinett tracings Italian masters of the late Renaissance by Leopold Kupelwieser have strong similarities with works mason and therefore some previous write-ups are both in question.

Portrait of an elegant lady; Oil on canvas

Emperor Joseph II

Circe and Odysseus

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine. Oil on canvas.

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