Johann Georg Bergmüller

Johann Georg Bergmüller ( born April 15, 1688 in Untertürkheim, † March 30, 1762 in Augsburg ) was an important painter of the Baroque. He painted mainly in fresco technique, but also on canvas.

Life

He received a first artistic training in his father's cabinet-maker 's workshop in Untertürkheim. 1702-08 he was with the Munich court painter Johann Andreas Wolff in teaching. 1711 he undertook an educational trip to the Netherlands. In 1713 he became a master and received the Augsburg civil rights. There he married the same year Barbara Kreutzerin. Of the ten children was Johann Baptist Konradsberg Müller also a painter, fresco painter, engraver and art theorist.

Johann Georg quickly acquired reputation in Augsburg, where it has created many works of art, though little has been preserved. He was the most important teacher of fresco painting at Augsburg in Municipal Academy, founded in 1710; his compositional style and his motifs were the model for many pupils and imitators. In 1723 he published a proportion theoretical textbook. In 1730 he became the director of the Catholic Academy; together with a Protestant Director he stood in front of her until his death.

His most famous pupils were Johann Georg Wolcker, Gottfried Bernhard Goetz and Johann Evangelist Holzer.

Some works

Authorship

• Johann Georg Bergmüller: Anthropometria, Augsburg 1723
• His authorship of some paintings ( side altars ) in the Guardian Angel Church in Eichstätt has been found during restoration work in question. Possibly. the pictures come from Johann Evangelist Holzer, a student mountain miller.