Franz Ittenbach

Franz Itten Bach ( born April 18, 1813 in King Winter, † December 1, 1879 in Dusseldorf ) was a painter and belonged to the Düsseldorf group of Nazarenes.

Itten Bach had initially started an apprenticeship as a merchant, this broke but from then to visit with the painter Franz Katz (1782-1851) in Cologne, the art school. In 1832 he moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy. From 1839 to 1842 he traveled in Italy. On the way back he remained a long time in Munich. In 1849 he returned to Dusseldorf. He was involved in the decoration of the Apollinaris Church in Remagen. From 1859 until his death he was a member of the artist association " paint box ". Itten Bach was buried in the family tomb in King Winter.

His long -lost high altarpiece " The Baptism of Christ " from the Garrison Church demolished in 1906 Dusseldorf, which goes back to a competition organized by the Art Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia of 1847, just to get in the church of St. Andrew ( Dusseldorf ).

Gallery

Madonna with Child

St. Dorothy, 1850

Portrait of Margaret of Soist, 1849

Portrait of Franz Xaver von Soist, 1850

Madonna and Child, 1855

" Our Lady of the Sacred Heart ", 1876