Franz Joseph Spiegler

Franz Joseph Spiegler ( born April 5, 1691 Wangen im Allgäu, † April 15, 1757 in Konstanz ) was a German painter of the Baroque. He was known especially for his frescoes that decorate several churches and monasteries on the Upper Swabian Baroque Road among others. His main work, the ceiling painting of Our Lady of the Abbey Zwiesel apply in Münster.

Life

Spiegler was born the son of a Landgerichtsprokurators in the free imperial city of Wangen im Allgäu. After the early death of his father in 1692 his mother, who came from Wangen old patrician family, the ( craft ) painter Adam Joseph Doll married man. So Spiegler became familiar early with the craft of painting. Around 1710 Spiegler trained as a painter at his great- uncle, the Bavarian court painter Johann Kaspar Sing, where he met the influence of Dutch painting History painting of the time in Munich. It is questionable whether it until 1723 as a painter and gilder barrel on Wolfegg Castle and the surrounding area was active from 1712. 1723-1725 frescoed Spiegler in Ottobeuren monastery under the strong influence of the Munich court formative Jacopo Amigoni. In the following years he created frescoes and oil paintings for numerous monasteries, churches and castles, particularly in Upper Swabia, Lake Constance, the Black Forest and the High Rhine. 1757 died Spiegler in Konstanz.

Works

  • Fresco in the church of Maria -Thann ( today Hergatz ), 1722/1723
  • Frescoes in the Monastery Ottobeuren (frescoes in corridors and stairwells and in the Secret Archives of the Abbot, ceiling fresco comedy and tragedy in the theater ), 1723
  • Fresco ( with ikonologischem program on the Salpetererunruhen ) in Bonn in Bonn village castle village in the Black Forest, in 1726. The frescoes of the chapel Bonn village were destroyed during conversion, an altarpiece was "disposed of" around 1974 out of ignorance.
  • Frescoes in the monastery church of St. Peter in the Black Forest, 1727
  • Frescoes in the monastery Zwiesel ( Prelacy ), 1728-1729
  • Panel, probably from Castle Bonn village in the Black Forest, today in the parish church Herdwangen
  • Frescoes in Salem Munster ( south transept and organ loft ), 1730
  • Fresco in the castle chapel Schloss Mochental, 1734
  • Fresco " Divine virtues" in the nunnery of Lindau in Lake Constance, today the District Office and District Court, 1736
  • Frescoes of the castle church of Mainau, 1737-1738
  • Fresco in the west wing of the monastery of St. Peter in the Black Forest, 1739
  • Frescoes and three altarpieces in the church of St. Remigius in Merdingen, 1739-1741
  • Fresco in the Church of the Trinity ( Constance), 1740
  • Series of 12 paintings in the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul in Carinthia to 1740/45
  • Four side altar panels and top images in the monastery church of the Capuchin monastery in Stühlingen Stühlingen, 1740-1741
  • Frescoes and oil paintings in the chapel Untersulmetingen
  • Five oil paintings for the high altar and side altar in the monastery church of St. Martin of the monastery of Muri in Muri in Aargau, 1746
  • Frescoes and three oil paintings in the parish of St. Martin in Altheim, 1747
  • Frescoes in the cathedral Zwiesel, 1747-1753
  • Fresco in the chapel in Goss Zugen in Zwiesel, 1749
  • Frescoes of Fridolin Minster in Sackingen, 1753-1754 together with his pupil Johann Anton Morath
  • Pilgrimage altarpiece in the cathedral in Radolfzell
  • Numerous oil paintings and altarpieces
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