Josef Anton Hafner

Josef Anton Hafner ( born August 15, 1709 Untertürkheim, † 1756 ) was a painter from the Upper Swabian Türk home.

He was the son of a tailor, and was educated at the probably also dating Untertürkheim painter Johann Georg Bergmüller in Augsburg. The earliest work that Josef Anton Hafner is credited with being an altarpiece depicting Saint George in Lindenberg im Allgäu. In 1732, he was for several works in the church of St. Magnus paid in Unterrammingen, including the lost high altarpiece with Saint Magnus. A year later he led there by repair work. For All Souls Brotherhood in his hometown Untertürkheim he delivered a double-sided painted flag. This oil - on - canvas - work shows on one side purgatory. The flag was used until the 20th century for funerals. Reputation wrote him two after 1733 running oval ceiling painting in the Chapel of St. Peter and Paul in Unterirsingen to. For two large-scale hangings of Corporis Christi Brotherhood in Türkheim he created the paintings in 1734, two years later he painted the skulls for a banner of All Souls' Brotherhood of the place. In the parish church of the Assumption in Untertürkheim he painted in 1736, among other coat of arms and shields. The figure of Christ to the Holy grave he took new. The first known extensive work Josef Anton Hafner was born in 1740. It is the complex biblical and hagiographic program in the monastery church monastery Beuren. Underneath is the Joseph A. Hafner in Türkheim designated image of the Adoration of the Magi on the south side. Thereafter, he received further orders with similar cycles. In the area around Lake Constance in 1745, he was allegedly involved in several major ceiling paintings in churches. For the parish church of St. Jakob in Pfullendorf a painter from Türk home was commissioned in 1743. This could have also acted to cry for Hafner. A year later he painted the new saint grave in St. Benno in Untertürkheim. The current as a lost altarpiece of the high altar in the parish church Untertürkheimer he painted in the same year. He summed up well in 1748 set up by Ignaz Hillenbrand figures of the new crib. As his greatest work is considered a high altar in the parish church of the Holy Spirit in sub apple village. It shows Mary as Queen of the Rosary and is signed by him and dated 1755. Josef Anton Hafner has probably also painted frequently for private individuals, but this has not yet secured archival. He died in 1756 of tuberculosis.

As well trained as a painter, he had a keen sense of luminous color and dynamic gestures of the figures. However, his larger compositions exhibit volatilities in design and execution that do not relate to the employees or agents. Josef Anton Hafner is one of his paintings rather at the second place of the Swabian Baroque painter.

Works

  • St. John the Baptist in Königshausen, medium ceiling fresco in the choir, in 1752, remaining ceiling paintings in the nave
  • St. John the Baptist in the upper cell, painting of the interior, commissioned in 1749, signed and dated 1750
  • Estate of the realm pin Weißenau, decoration of the great hall 1753
  • Painful Mother of God Church in upper cell, ceiling painting after 1750
  • St. Peter and Paul in Weißenau, painting of the interior, signed and dated 1743 ( frescoed ceiling of the nave of Karl Stauder )
  • St. Peter and Paul in Sarnen in Switzerland, painting of the interior, signed and dated 1741
  • Lavra monastery Beuren, church paintings with frescoes in 1740
  • Holy Spirit Church in sub apple village, high altarpiece Madonna with the Rosary 1755
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