Biography

German wood-carver and medallist. He may have been the son of the sculptor Nikolaus Haguenauer. By his own account, he left Strasbourg soon after 1520 and worked in a number of cities, including Speyer, Mainz, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Nuremberg and Salzburg, but no works from this period have been found. Between 1525 and 1527, while living in Munich and Landshut, he executed some 20 medals portraying Duke William IV of Bavaria, Duke Ludwig X (examples in Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich) and Pfalzgraf Philipp, Bishop of Freising (example in Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg) and members of the Munich court and bourgeoisie. He next moved to Augsburg, where in 1531 the guilds complained to the City Council that he was working as a wood-carver and counterfeiter (portrait sculptor) without being one of their members. Hagenauer replied that in other cities his work was recognized as free art and not subject to compulsory guild restrictions.

Hagenauer was one of the most prolific medallist of the German Renaissance.