Johann Sautner (Breilenbrunn 1747 - 1823 Vienna), Circa 1770-1790

Christie's London, 8 December 2011, lot 168;

Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.

Johann Sautner was an Austrian sculptor working in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Despite few remaining records of the artist, he is noted in Bénézit as being a student of the Vienna Academy, and in Thieme-Becker (Vollmer vol. 29) as working alongside Willhelm Beyer and Johann Baptist Hagenauer on the garden statuary for Schönbrunn Palace outside of Vienna.

The present lot may be identical with an alabaster 'kinderbacchanal' recorded as being exhibited by Sautner in the Academy of Art, Vienna.¹

¹Vollmer, ThB29, 1935

RELATED LITERATURE

H. Vollmer ed., Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 29, Leipzig 1935, p. 497;

E. Bénézit, Dictionnare des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinaterus, et Graveurs, vol. 14, Gründ 1999, p. 327.