Franz Xaver Habermann (1721-1796)

Aliases: François Xavier Habermann

Professions: Ornamentation draughtsman; Engraver; Sculptor; Painter

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  Frangois Xavier Habermann (1721-1796) engraver

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  Franz Xaver Habermann (1721-1796)

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  Habermann Franz Xaver (Grafschaft Glatz/Breslau

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  Habermann, Franz Xaver (1721 Grafschaft

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Franz Xaver Habermann Biography

(b Habelschwerdt, Silesia [now Bystryca Klodzka, nr Wroclaw, Poland], 1721; d Augsburg, 1796). German draughtsman, engraver and sculptor. After an apprenticeship as a sculptor and a journey to Italy in 1746, he obtained rights of citizenship and the right to practise as a sculptor in Augsburg by marrying Maria Catharina Wörle, widow of the miniature painter. He was president of the guild of sculptors and painters from 1756–7 and was a drawing tutor at the Kunstakademie in Augsburg from 1781 until his death. Although he generally signed himself statuarius , his only known surviving sculptural work (until its destruction in the Second World War) was the front of the organ by the instrument maker Johann Andreas Stein in the Barfüsserkirche in Augsburg (1755–7; destr. 1944). The dearth of commissions for sculptors in Augsburg in the mid-18th century led him to turn to ornamental engraving. The c. 600 surviving engravings by him cover a wide range of ornamental subject-matter. Their success probably depended primarily, despite Habermann’s effervescent imagination, on their practical applicability by any artistic craftsman of the period. The engravings were published, mostly in series of four sheets, by the Augsburg publishers Martin Engelbrecht (c . 1684–1756) and Johann Georg Hertel (c . 1700/01–76), and later by Habermann himself. According to contemporary accounts, Habermann also completed numerous designs for goldsmiths; of these, only his design for a table centrepiece has survived (Augsburg, Städt. Kstsammlungen, G. 24912). In the 1770s and 1780s he also engraved prints for peepshow boxes.

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