Hans Daucher (1486,

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– 1538, Stuttgart) was a German

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wood carver, sculptor and medal designer.

Life

Hans and his father, the sculptor and woodcarver Adolf Daucher (c. 1460,

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– c. 1524, Augsburg), both worked in Augsburg and belonged to the Ulm School. Either Hans or Adolf produced the altarpiece weighing 370 talents which has been on the high altar of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Annenkirche in

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, though it was long thought to be a collaboration between them. Some of its materials originated in the Ore Mountains on the Czech border, 403 kilometres from Augsburg. In 1522 the work was unveiled in the 'Hauptchor' or upper choir of the church. The Solhofen limestone sculptures were surrounded by a framework made up of ten different types of Italian marble. Hans is also known to have worked independently on the Fugger Chapel in the same church after 1512 – its central ''Corpus Christi'' and ''Lamentation of Christ'' groups, the

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on the marble balustrade in front of the chapel and the choir stalls are his work. Daucher's sculpture ''The Lamentation of Christ'', dated to around 1500, is in ''Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité'' in the town of

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. Hans also worked between 1515 and 1516 on the late Gothic decoration of the Rathaus in Augsburg. Schindler considers the marble monument to the nobles of Hürnheim in Hochaltingen to be Daucher's masterpiece. He was so in demand that he had to maintain a large studio in Augsburg, with one area producing and processing huge marble blocks for his sculptures and another for melting and casting medals and cooling his large and small sculptures. It also included a desk with his drawing instruments, where he produced designs after living and dissected models – Daucher often dissected these himself, using a basement filled with ice tubs to preserve the specimens and bodies.

Selected works

Reliefs

File:Daucher Allegorischer Zweikampf Dürer Apelles.jpg, Daucher: ''Allegorical Battle Between Dürer and Apelles'' File:Hans Daucher Geißelung Christi BNM.jpg, Daucher: ''The Flagellation of Christ.'' Mickhausen 7

Medals

File:Hans daucher, ferdinando I e anna di boemia, 1523.JPG, Daucher: ''

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and Anna of Bohemia'', 1523, SMM. File:Hans daucher (disegno), imp massimiliano I, augusta 1516.JPG,

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Bibliography

* Eser, Thomas: ''Hans Daucher''. München/Berlin 1996

References

External links

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Bildindex: ''Hans Daucher.''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Daucher, Hans 1486 births 1538 deaths Artists from Augsburg German sculptors German male sculptors