Asam brothers

The Asam brothers, Cosmas Damian Asam (1686-1739) and Quirin Asam Egid (1692-1750), who worked as a sculptor, plasterers, painters and architects who have worked on separate bill, but most commonly, especially in southern Germany. They are among the most important representatives of German late Baroque.

Life

Cosmas Damian Asam and his brother Egid Quirin were two of nine children of the monastery of Benediktbeuern painter, Hans Georg Asam. Both were trained as a painter with her father. After his father's death in 1711 they decided their activities to stucco and architecture expand, so traveled Cosmas Damian sponsored by the Abbot of Tegernsee to continuing to Rome. 1713 received Cosmas Damian in the presence of the Pope the first prize of his painting class at the Accademia di San Luca. It is possible that his brother Egid accompanied him on this trip, although he completed his education at the time the court sculptor Andreas Faistenberger Munich and in 1716 successfully completed. After returning from Cosmas from Italy, the brothers received numerous orders thanks to the close ties to the Benedictine Order.

Both brothers continued his father's legacy with their inclination and training. Cosmas Damian worked as a painter and sculptor, Egid Quirin as an architect, plasterer and sculptor. Since their work focuses on well complemented with construction projects, they worked together on almost all of their orders.

Especially Cosmas Damian's great talent of fresco painting made ​​the brothers quickly became known from the Upper Palatinate addition. His frescoes were asked and paid similar to that of the Italian contemporaries Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Were still strongly determined by the illusionism the frescoes and stucco work in Bamberg, they succeeded in later works such as in Weingarten a uniform interaction of individual elements, the ( theatrum the sacrum ) offered a stage-like setting for worship in the Baroque. With the construction and design of the Weltenburger monastery church they laid the foundation for their fame. In the spirit of the late baroque, they succeeded there to connect to a single work of art in an impressive way, painting, sculpture, lighting, interior design and architecture.

They created 1723/24 in less than one and a half years, the frescos and stucco of the Freising Cathedral and oriented themselves in the choice of colors for frescoes and stucco on the colors of the high altar painting by Peter Paul Rubens, so that the impression of the room leaves a harmonious overall picture.

Their works ranged from Bohemia to the Tyrol and Switzerland, from about 1727 were both based in Munich. Its most famous building is the church of St. Johann Nepomuk in Munich, situated next to their house. The late work originated in a small space and without order for the personal salvation of the Asam brothers.

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Works

  • Frescos of the dome of the abbey church Ensdorf, 1714
  • Kuppelfreskierung in the Trinity Church Munich, 1714/1715
  • Frescos of the facade of Claudi Cleer house, Munich, Kaufingerstrasse, 1715
  • Frescoes in the monastery church Metten, 1715
  • Side altar paintings of the Guardian Angels Church (former Franciscan Church ) in Straubing, 1710
  • Frescoes in Bamberg, 1714
  • Monastery Church World Castle, ( 1716? ), 1721, 1734
  • Michel Monastery Field, 1717
  • Monastery church in tube 1718
  • Monastery Church of the Abbey Weingarten, 1719
  • Chapel of St. Korbinian on Weihenstephan Hill in Freising, 1720, demolished in 1803
  • Monastery Alder Brook, 1720
  • Schleissheim Palace, 1721
  • Frescoes of the St. Anne's Chapel in Kißlegg
  • St. James Cathedral in Innsbruck, 1722-1723
  • Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Korbinian Freising, 1723-1724
  • Monastery church of Einsiedeln, 1724-1726
  • Holy Spirit Church in Munich, 1727
  • Pin Břevnov ( Breunau ) in Prague, 1727
  • Bruchsal Castle Church, 1728 ( destroyed )
  • Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption in Villages, design for Gnadenaltar, 1728, version 1740/49, 1868 demolition, reconstruction 1971
  • Monastery church of St. Anna im Lehel in Munich, 1729
  • Monastery church of St. Anna of God Zell, 1729
  • Jesuit Church (Mannheim), 1729-1731
  • Castle Alteglofsheim (today Bavarian Academy of Music), 1730
  • Kloster Sankt Emmeram in Regensburg, 1731-1733
  • Monastery church Altenmarkt- Osterhofen, 1732
  • Chapel Ettlingen, 1732
  • Monastery church in Legnickie poles ( Wahlstatt ) in Lower Silesia, 1733
  • St. Johann Nepomuk ( " Asam " ) in Munich, 1734
  • St. Augustine's Church in Regensburg, 1734
  • Castle chapel of St. Anna in Maxhütte -Haidhof - Pirkensee, 1734
  • Old cottage Innsbruck, 1734
  • Women's Collegiate Church of St. Anna in Munich, 1735
  • Altars of the Castle Church in Sandizell Schrobenhausen, 1735
  • Ursuline Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary to Straubing, 1736-1739 (last common work of the Brothers )
  • Maria de Victoria in Ingolstadt, 1736
  • St. John 's Chapel in Freising Cathedral, 1737/38
  • Monastery Fürstenfeld, 1741
  • The Episcopal Palace Eichstätt, painting The Last Supper, first half of 18th century
  • Catholic Church of St. Martin in Meßkirch / Baden, Nepomukkapelle
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