Draft:Franz Mozart (sculptor)

Franz Mozart (October 3 1681 - March 31 1732) was a German sculptor in Straubing. He was the dear son of Franz Mozart, brother of bookbinder Johann Georg and uncle Leopold, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Origin and career
Franz Mozart was the son of the Augsburg mason and builder of the same name, the great-grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and a member of the artistic Mozart family. He grew up in Fuggerea. There is no mention of an apprenticeship in Augsburg; After his father's untimely death, Franz is believed to have spent time with his uncle, the sculptor Johann Michael Mozart, in Vienna. Around 1706, Mozart moved to Straubing, married Anna Maria (1661–1734), the widow of Hanns Georg Fux, who was twenty years his senior, thus obtaining a sculptor's license and becoming the town's only burgher sculptor. Most orders from the parish of St. Jakub later came to him in Straubing.

Death
Mozart died at the age of 50 and was buried in St. Peter's Basilica. Peter. Simon Hofer (1683–1749), who married Mozart's stepdaughter, took over the responsibility of sculptor.