!!!Zauner, Franz Anton von

b. Unterfalpetan (municipality of Kaunertal, Tyrol), July 5, 1746, 
d. Vienna, March 3, 1822, most important Austrian classicist sculptor. 
Worked in Vienna from 1766, his first works imitated the style of G. 
R.  Donner (Neptunbrunnen in Schoenbrunn, 1775), during his stay in 
Rome (1776-1781, with F. H.  Fueger) he turned to a purified 
classicist style which is similar to the style of Roman antiquity; 
from 1782 Professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and 1806-1815 
director of this institution. With his main work, the equestrian 
statue of Joseph II (according to a design by Fueger, 1795-1806, 
Josefsplatz in Vienna), he revived the bronze casting technique in 
Austria which had been replaced by lead casting.P>

!Further works
monuments: Count Fries, Bad Voeslau, 1793-1795; Leopold 
II, Georgskapelle chapel of Augustinerkirche church in Vienna, 1806. - 
Busts, tombs.

!Literature
H. Burg, Der Bildhauer F. A. Z. und seine Zeit, 1915; 
Klassizismus in Wien, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1978.



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