Andreas Faistenberger

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The Annunciation relief on the altar of the Citizens' Hall in Munich

Andreas Faistenberger (baptized November 29, 1646 in Kitzbühel ; † December 8, 1735 in Munich ) was a sculptor of the southern German high and late baroque .

Life

Coming from Kitzbühel in the North Tyrolean Unterland, where his grandfather, Andreas Faistenberger the elder, who was born in Innsbruck before 1620 . Ä. became at home and his father Benedikt Faistenberger d. Ä. worked as a sculptor all his life, Andreas initially apprenticed to his father before he went on trips (including to Italy) in mid-1665 and came to Munich for the first time a little later. Around 1668, the sculptor Balthasar Ableitner was his teacher there for some time . A little later (around 1670) the journeyman sculptor turned again to Italy, where he was presumably in Venice (with Lorenzo Bernini ?), But in any case in Rome, since his stay in the Eternal City is guaranteed for 1672/73 . Returning to Munich at the end of 1678 at the latest, he soon applied for membership in the local guild and was recognized by the city council as a master of sculpture in mid-1679. Shortly afterwards he married the 25-year-old daughter of the Munich sculptor Matthias Schütz and subsequently took over his workshop in the shared house in Äußere Schwabinger Gasse (today: Theatinerstr. 38). From 1680 he received numerous commissions, both from the secular ( elector , nobility) and from the ecclesiastical side (Catholic church, monasteries). Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel placed the sculptor under court protection around 1681/82, which is to be seen as a special sign of favor from the sovereign. A collaboration between Faistenberger and other artists for (joint) commissions can be proven, for example for Johann Anton Gumpp or Johann Andreas Wolff , but also for his relatives Dominikus Faistenberger , Clement Faistenberger and Erasmus Faistenberger . In the 1680s, the young Giovanni Giuliani from Venice was his pupil - he probably had already brought him to Munich when he returned from Italy. Andreas Faistenberger was elected leader of his guild several times during his long life, and from 1688 he also held the title of " Elector of Cologne court sculptor". Among the artist's spiritual clients, the Theatines should be mentioned, for whose church St. Kajetan and Kloster numerous works were made between 1678 and 1703. The sculptor was also active outside of Munich time and again: Commissions took him to southern Upper Bavaria , Lower Bavaria , Swabia , Tyrol and Austria, among others . Between 1711 and 1716 the young Egid Quirin Asam , whose family lived in the neighboring house (today: Theatinerstr. 39), was his apprentice, a few years earlier Johann Georg Greiff . Around 1730, the ivory carver Simon Troger from East Tyrol seems to have apprenticed to the artist. Already at an old age, Faistenberger was supported in the execution of his last commissioned works by the sculptor Johann Baptist Straub , who had returned from Vienna to Munich around 1734 at his invitation. The esteemed court sculptor died at the age of 89 in Munich and was buried in the cemetery near St. Salvator ; his wife was already different in 1732. Of the artist's three children, the son Joseph Rupert Konventuale, born on August 6, 1680, was born in Tegernsee Monastery ; Maria Catharina, born on March 17, 1682, married the Munich (court) copper engraver Franz Xaver Joseph Späth in 1711 , who on June 10 Son Judas Thaddäus Benedikt, born in 1683, became a high official at the Bavarian electoral court and as such achieved the nobility around the middle of the 18th century. The sons' godfather was Rupertus Rettenwander, who also came from Tyrol, and was godmother to his wife Maria's daughter.

meaning

Andreas Faistenberger was evidently one of the most successful and popular sculptors of the high and late baroque in southern Germany and mastered a considerable artistic repertoire: He worked in wood, stone (marble / alabaster ) as well as ivory, made life-size and larger-than-life sculptures as well as reliefs or ivory and boxwood miniatures.

Its artistic aftereffect is essentially limited to conveying or passing on his style, which is based on the ancient canon of forms, to his pupils and employees (who later often became famous themselves). His long and productive life as an artist meant that the Munich and Bavarian sculptures of the Baroque period are mainly associated with his name to this day.

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SURNAME Faistenberger, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH baptized November 29, 1646
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitzbühel
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1735
Place of death Munich