Ignatius Taschner

Ignatius Taschner studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Training under Jakob Bradl and Syrius Eberle is recorded. Bernard Kratko is recorded as having studied under Ignatius Taschner. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is jewelry. Places of work recorded in the authority are Munich, Wrocław and Berlin. Employment is recorded with Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts. Work by Ignatius Taschner is recorded in the collections of Astrid & Mario Ratz-Coradazzi.

• Name — Ignatius Taschner • Born — 9 April 1871 • Birthplace — Bad Kissingen, Germany • Died — 25 November 1913 • Place of death — Mitterndorf near Dachau, Germany • Education — Academy of Fine Arts, Munich • Spouse — Helene Felber

Ignatius Taschner was born in 1871, he was the son of Bartholomew Taschner, a stonemason originating from Straubing. He spent his childhood and youth in Lohr am Main. From 1885 to 1888 he completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Schweinfurt with the sculptor Wilhelm Kämpf and worked there for a year as a journeyman. He then studied from 1889 to 1895 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Syrius Eberle and Jakob Bradl. Among his fellow students were the sculptor Georg Wrba and Josef Rauch.[3] On 27 April 1899, he married Helene Felber.

In 1894, he received his first contract from the city of Schweinfurt to work on a war memorial. Around the turn of the century Taschner had been making a substantial impression on the artists of the Munich, Vienna and Berlin Secessions. Taschner's early period ended in 1897 with an order from Karl von Marr for a tomb for the Berlin painter Carl Bennewitz von Loefen. Then in 1898, working for the architects Helbig & Haiger, he made a series of decorative murals in the Munich Kunstgewerbehaus as well as for an exhibition in the Glasspalast. He received his first orders for graphics from the Viennese publisher Martin Gerlach. He drew invitations and postcards for the carnival party ″Schwabinger Bauernkirchweih″ of the Association of Art students in Munich in 1898 (and for all other ″Schwabinger Bauernkirchweih″ parties until 1905). He also created the characters ″Strauchdieb″ and ″Hl. Cäcilia″. In 1900 he participated in the competition for a Kaiser-Friedrich monument in Oels (Oleśnica) and a Goethe Memorial in Strasbourg (3rd prize), created the group ″Rauhbein″, the illustrations for ″Grimm's Fairy Tales″ for Publisher Martin Gerlach and participated at the Paris World Exhibition with the figures ″Hl. Martin″ and ″Strauchdieb″. In 1902 he participated in a fountain competition for Kempten (2nd prize), designed a silver crucifix, created the figure ″Unterfranken″ for the New Town Hall in Munich, the etchings ″Kirchgang und Botenfuhrwerk″ and the illustrations for ″Die Nymphe des Brunnens[10]″ and ″Kirchgang″ for the publisher Martin Gerlach.

In 1906 Taschner moved to Mitterndorf near Dachau, where he built a villa like other famous artists on a large piece of land. Soon afterwards the designs for the ten figures of the Märchenbrunnen in the Volkspark Friedrichshain in Berlin were completed. In 1911 the interior of his villa in Mitterndorf - designed by Taschner himself - was completed. Only a few years he could live together with his wife and his two little girls in his villa. He was ill and overworked and his heart stopped suddenly. • Illustration — Märchenbrunnen mit Hans im Glück • Illustration — Der gestiefelte Kater / Puss in Boots • Illustration — Dornröschen / Sleeping Beauty • Illustration — Rotkäppchen / Little Red Riding Hood • Illustration — Aschenbrödel / Cinderella • Illustration — Hänsel aus 'Hänsel und Gretel' / Hansel of Hansel and Gretel • Illustration — Die sieben Raben / The Seven Ravens

Taschner died suddenly on 25 November 1913 in Mitterndorf near Dachau.

• 1895: war memorial in the town cemetery in Schweinfurt • 1896–1904: architectural sculpture for the Wertheim department store on Leipziger Platz in Berlin-Mitte (architect Alfred Messel) • 1901/1902: Parsifal zu Pferde, Bronze-Kleinplastik, 37 x 18 x 38 cm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie • 1904:[7] Illustrations for Ludwig Thomas story Der heilige Hies • 1904–1911: Participation in the architectural sculpture for the Stadthaus in Berlin-Mitte • 1904–1914: Crown silver • 1907: Gustav-Freytag-Brunnen on the Liebichshöhe in Breslau • 1908: Four reliefs an der[8] Puppenbrücke (Lübeck) • 1910: Fischerbuberl-Brunnen on the Wiener Platz in München • 1911–1912: Statuettes for Märchenbrunnen in Berlin-Friedrichshain • 1904: Illustrations for the Brothers Grimms fairy tales[9] • Illustrations for Johann Karl August Musäus' Die Nymphe des Brunnens