Franz Anton Zauner
Born: Untervalpatann, Tirol, 5 July 1746
Died: Vienna, March 1822
Nationality: German
Died: Vienna, March 1822
Nationality: German
Studies:
with sculptor Balthasar Horer and Josef Deutschmann (Passau); with Jakob Schletterer and Wilhelm Bayer (Vienna)
Career:
1775 – first state comission, fountain with allegorical representations of figures rivers Danube and Enns (Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna)
1776 – wins travel fellowship to Rome (along with Heinrich Füger)
1781 – begins teaching at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1784 –becomes Professor of Sculpture at Vienna Academy
1790 –gets commission for Monument to Joseph II, Vienna’s first onumental equestrian statue
1806 –ennobled and given a lifelong income; becomes Director of Vienna Academy
Commissions from:
Wenzel Anton (Prince Kaunitz-Rietburg); Franz II (Emperor of Austria); Christian Johann, Graf von Fries
Important Artworks:
Perseus and Andromeda, 1777 (Belvedere Museum, Vienna)
Adoring Angels, 1784 (Sarasdorf church, Vienna)
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