Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer
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Wessobrunn
Wessobrunn is a municipality in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria in Germany.-Paterzell airfield:Paterzell airfield is located in Wessobrunn. The local aeroclub Luftsportverein Weilheim-Peißenberg competes in glider aerobatics. The German National Champion in 2006, Markus Feyerabend...
, Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
– 1763) was a German Baroque
Baroque sculpture
Baroque sculpture is the sculpture associated with the Baroque cultural movement, a movement often identified with the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states.-Course:...
stucco
Stucco
Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture...
plasterer
Plasterwork
Plasterwork refers to construction or ornamentation done with plaster, such as a layer of plaster on an interior wall or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls. This is also sometimes called pargeting...
of the Wessobrunner School
Wessobrunner School
The Wessobrunner School is the name for a group of Baroque stucco-workers that, beginning at the end of the 17th century, developed in the Benedictine Wessobrunn Abbey in Bavaria, Germany....
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A member of the famous Feuchtmayer
Feuchtmayer
The Feuchtmayers were a German family of artists from the Baroque Wessobrunner School....
family, he was the son of Michael Feuchtmayer
Michael Feuchtmayer
Michael Feuchtmayer was a member of the Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the German Wessobrunner School.He was the brother of Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer ; the father of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer ; the...
(b. 1667); the nephew of Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer
Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer
Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the Wessobrunner School.Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn Abbey...
(1660–1718) and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer was a German painter and copper engraver.He was born in Wessobrunn, into the famous Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School....
(the Elder) (1666–1713); the older brother of Johann Michael Feuchtmayer
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer was a German Baroque stucco sculptor and plasterer of the Wessobrunner School, who worked alongside Johann Michael Fischer, Johann Joseph Christian, and Franz Joseph Spiegler to create some of the most famous churches along the Upper...
(the Younger) (1709–1772); the cousin of Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer
Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer
Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer was an important Rococo stuccoist and sculptor, active in southern Germany and Switzerland....
(1696–1770); and the father of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer
Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger
Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School....
(the Younger) (b. 1735).
Feuchtmayer worked alongside his brother, Johann Michael Fischer
Johann Michael Fischer
Johann Michael Fischer was a German architect in the late Baroque period....
, Matthäus Günther
Matthäus Günther
Matthäus Günther was an important German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era....
, and Ignaz Günther
Ignaz Günther
Ignaz Günther was a German sculptor and woodcarver working in the Bavarian rococo tradition.He was born in Altmannstein, Germany, where he received his earliest training from his father, then studied in Munich under the court sculptor Johann Baptist Straub from 1743 to 1750 and during his...
to create some of the most famous churches in Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
and Tyrol
County of Tyrol
The County of Tyrol, Princely County from 1504, was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1814 a province of the Austrian Empire and from 1867 a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary...
. His style has been variously described as "lavish," "delicate," and "vigorous."
Major works
Bavaria
- AugsburgAugsburgAugsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
—Dominican Church of St. Magdalena (1721–1724) - AugsburgAugsburgAugsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
—Schaezler Palais (1764) - Dießen am AmmerseeDießen am AmmerseeDießen am Ammersee is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany.-References:...
—Church of St. Maria (completed 1739) - Dießen am AmmerseeDießen am AmmerseeDießen am Ammersee is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany.-References:...
—Church of St. Georgen (1750) - EllingenEllingenEllingen is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany....
—Castle Church - FreisingFreisingFreising is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district Freising. Total population 48,500.The city is located north of Munich at the Isar river, near the Munich International Airport...
—Neustift Monastery Church (1765) - IndersdorfMarkt IndersdorfMarkt Indersdorf is a municipality in the district of Dachau in Bavaria in Germany....
—Augustinian Canonry (1755) - Rott am InnRott am InnRott am Inn is a municipality in the district of Rosenheim in Bavaria in Germany....
—Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Marinus and St. Anianus (dome frescoes and other frescoes) (1763) - SteinbachLegauLegau is a municipality in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany....
—Pilgrimage Church of St. Maria (1764) - StaffelsteinBad StaffelsteinBad Staffelstein is a small town in the Bavarian Administrative Region of Upper Franconia in Germany. It is known for the beautiful landscape that surrounds it, which has been given the name "Gottesgarten am Obermain"...
—Pilgrimage Church of VierzehnheiligenFourteen Holy HelpersThe Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints venerated together in Roman Catholicism because their intercession is believed to be particularly effective, especially against various diseases...
Tyrol
- FiechtSchwazSchwaz is a city in Tyrol, Austria. It is the administrative center of the Schwaz district . Schwaz is located in the lower Inn valley, and has a population of about 13,000....
—Collegiate Church of St. JosefSt. Georgenberg-Fiecht AbbeySt. Georgenberg-Fiecht Abbey, the successor of St. Georgenberg Abbey, is a Benedictine monastery situated since 1708 in Fiecht in the community of Vomp in Tyrol, Austria; a pilgrimage church still stands on the original site on the Georgenberg...
(1740–1744) - InnsbruckInnsbruck- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...
—Wilten Basilica (1754) - StamsImst (district)The Bezirk Imst is an administrative district in Tyrol, Austria. It borders the district Reutte in the north, as well as sharing a small border with Bavaria...
—Monastery Church of Mariae Himmelfahrt