Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer
Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer (also: Feichtmair and Feichtmayer; * baptized on March 6, 1696 in Linz, † January 2, 1770 in Mimmenhausen in Salem ) was a plasterer and sculptor, altar maker and engraver of the Rococo, in the area around Lake Constance was active in southern Germany and Switzerland.
Life and work
Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer comes from the famous family of artists Feuchtmayer that is associated with the Wessobrunner school. His father, Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660-1718) was initially active in the Upper Austrian monasteries, but settled in 1706 Mimmenhausen in Salem, where he worked for the imperial abbey of Salem. Joseph Anton is mentioned in 1715 as a journeyman sculptor in Augsburg and in 1718 in Weingarten. After his father's death he took over the workshop Mimmenhausener. He, too, was " house sculptor " of the monastery entrusted to him, for example, the prospectus of Our Lady of the Organ Salem Minster.
Wet Mayers decisive artistic model of the northern Italian plasterer Diego Francesco Carlone, from which he calls the " art of gloss work" got to 1721, a stucco technique, the alabaster -like surfaces was created and as the perfecter of it ( north of the Alps ) holds. His best-known work today is the honey Schlecker in Birnau, a putto symbolizes the eloquence of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who had so get the attribute doctor Mellifluus ("teacher with the honeyed speech" ).
Commemoration
In JA wet Mayers former home and workshop spaces in the Mimmenhausen Feuchtmayer Museum is now set up. In 1969 the newly built church of the parish of asymmetric Mimmenhausen are baroque baptism and crucifixion figures from old churches as well as at the entrance of the grave stones of Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer and Johann Georg Dirr.