Johann Rudolf Byss

Johann Rudolf Byss ( born May 11, 1660 in Chur, † December 11, 1738 in Würzburg) was a Swiss painter. Byss made ​​Dutch -influenced paintings and frescoes in the Italian Baroque.

Life

His craft, he first learned from his father Frans Joseph Byss and perfected his skills while traveling through Italy, Germany and England before he first settled around 1689 in Prague that he is leaving again around 1712. Later, he was commissioned by Emperor Leopold I with the creation of ceiling and wall paintings and images for the Hofburg in Vienna. On behalf of the Elector Lothar Franz von Schönborn he led from 1712 or 1715, first working in the Castle of Gaibach and was then charged with the supervision of the electoral picture gallery in white stone castle in Pommersfelden. He gave a description of the 1719 collection of paintings in Bamberg out, but these had different errors. After the death of the Elector he traveled to Würzburg where he could enjoy the favor of a nephew of the Elector.

Works (selection)

  • After 1689 paintings in Stracka Palace, Prague
  • 1704 residence hall and library of the Imperial Palace, Vienna
  • Together with Antonio Giuseppe Bossi of 1734 created the stucco work, he made the frescoes in the chapel Schönborn
  • 1713 Castle Pommersfelden
  • 1713/18 frescoes in the vestibule and staircase to Pommersfelden and Gaibach
  • 1720 painting of the hall in the castle Wiesentheid
  • 1721 Tettnang (Württemberg ) and Breslau (1723 ceiling painting in the stairwell of Hatzfeld 's Palace )
  • 1729 painting of the ceiling in the main hall of the Reich Chancellery in Vienna
  • 1730/31 summer dining Göttweig
  • 1734 together with a relative the ceiling frescoes of the hall and Altmann 1739 architectural paintings of the Emperor's Staircase in Göttweig
  • 1735 Castle chapel and hall of mirrors in the Würzburg Residence
  • Numerous panel paintings

Staircase of the castle

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