Waldburger, Hans

Waldburger, Hans, b. Innsbruck (Tyrol), around 1570, d. Salzburg before Aug. 12, 1630, leading mannerist sculptor. Son and student of the Innsbruck court sculptor, Hans Leonhard W. Artistically influenced by the sculptors A. Colin and H. Gerhard who worked in Innsbruck; appointed to Salzburg by Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, where he created numerous works (including the Susanna fountain in the Kurpark, around 1610; garden figures in Hellbrunn palace; "Justitia" in the portal of the Town Hall, 1616); his later work is of special significance as it represents the transition from late Renaissance to early Baroque; these works include the organ of St. Peter´s (Salzburg, 1620), the former high altar of the collegiate church at Mondsee (Upper Austria, 1626), the organ casing of the parish church of St. Wolfgang in the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut lake region (1629) and the former high altar of Nonnberg collegiate church (Salzburg, 1629, from 1853 in Scheffau an der Lammer, Salzburg, the Madonna of 1627 can still be seen in Nonnberg).

Literature: Fürsterzbischof Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, exhibition catalogue, Salzburg 1987.