Johann Evangelist Holzer

Johann Evangelist Holzer ( born December 24, 1709 burgeis, South Tyrol, † July 21, 1740 in Clemenswerth ) was a German - Austrian painter of the Rococo Augsburg, who painted mainly with original frescoes genre scenes, while light and shade dominated excellent.

Life

Holzer received his training with the painter Nikolaus Auer. Since 1728 he worked at the Straubinger master Josef Merz. Since 1730 he is detectable in Augsburg. He works in the workshop of Johann Georg Bergmüller. 1732/33 Holzer worked with his teacher Bergmüller on two side altars of the Guardian Angel Church in Eichstätt. Here, the mastery of light and shadow in the work of Holzer already gave hints.

After leaving the mountain Mueller's workshop he found in the art publisher Johann Pfeffel, whose house he painted, a conveyor. He was the most sought after façade painter of Augsburg. Apart from a few sketches and engravings preserved nothing of this kind his work.

1737 he was appointed by Bishop Johann Anton II von Freyberg, whose summer residence, he sided with the ceiling fresco "The Triumph of Flora", for fürstbischöflich - eichstättischen court painter. Holzer's major works, in addition to the destroyed ceiling paintings of the church of the abbey Muensterschwarzach the dome frescoes in the pilgrimage church of St. Anton in Partenkirchen, which are among the finest and most important of the 18th century in Germany. Place the hl. Anthony dar. as intercessors for the needy

In Diessen Holzer painted for the Marienmunster Unterdießen Michael the altar, and the two oil paintings in the sacristy, they show Rasso and Mechthild.

1738/39 was in Eichstätt the painting for the high altar of the Guardian Angels Church. It is Holzer's largest painting on canvas ( H: 8.36 m, B: 4.28 m) and impresses through movement, gesture, a dynamic composition and a subtle dramatic lighting. Although two images ( side altars ) find signatures of Bergmüller, they are allocated Holzer, the space occupied by archival painter of the high altar painting.

Holzer, who Clemenswerth lock should imagine in Emsland, was ill at the court of the Elector Clemens August and died 31 -year-old at a fever disease. He is buried under the altar of Mary in the parish church of Soegel.