Biography

Adolf Daucher the Elder, German sculptor, possibly the son of Bartholomäus Dauher (active 1476-1495 in Augsburg). Adolf probably worked in Ulm with the sculptor Michael Erhart, whose daughter Afra he married sometime prior to 1485. Their eight children included the sculptor Adolf Daucher the Younger (c. 1485-1557), who carved the choir-stalls (1550) and pulpit (1551) in the minster Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Hans Daucher and three other sons who were artists. In 1490 Adolf and his family moved to Augsburg, where he served initially as the manager of the property owned by the Cistercian monastery at Kaisheim. On 30 July 1491 he obtained Augsburg citizenship.