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Hagenauer, Johann Baptist
(b Strass, nr Salzburg, 14 June 1732; d Vienna, 11 Sept 1810). Austrian sculptor. He was apprenticed to Johann Georg Itzlfeldner (?1705–90) in Tittmoning. From 1754 to 1759 he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, where he produced sculptures in the Bavarian Rococo style (e.g. Christ at the Martyr’s Pillar, gilded bronze, 1756; Cleveland, OH, Mus. A.). The Archbishop of Salzburg, Sigismund, Graf von Schrattenbach, enabled him to continue his studies in Bologna, Florence and Rome. He returned to Salzburg to become official sculptor to von Schrattenbach, and collaborated closely with his brother, the architect Wolfgang Hagenauer (1726–1801), who was also working for the Archbishop. In 1764 he married the Italian painter Rosa Barducci (1743–86). His most important commission in Salzburg was the Mariensäule on the Domplatz (lead, 1766–71; in situ). In 1773 he moved to Vienna and until 1779 worked with Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Beyer on the sculptural decoration of the park at Schloss Schönbrunn. It was at this time that he moved away from the Rococo style towards late Baroque Neo-classicism (e.g. Apollo, marble, 1779; Vienna, Schloss Schönbrunn). In 1774 he was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Akademie and in 1780 became Director of the Graveurschule. In the 1780s he received several commissions for portraits (e.g. Abbot Dominikus von Hagenauer, plaster, 1787; Salzburg, Dommus.). From c. 1790 he concentrated on preparing design drawings of arts and crafts objects for the Graveurschule. He also wrote and published Unterricht von der Proporzion des Menschen.
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