Benedikt Werkstätter
Johann Benedikt Werkstätter (* around 1708 in Neumarkt am Wallersee ; † January 12, 1772 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian baroque painter .
Life
The Salzburg baroque artist, often also named painter Benedikt , was appointed high ducal chamber porter and court painter in 1755 . With the cycle of salt mines and salt works , he created important evidence of late baroque industrial painting in the middle of the 18th century .
Works
- 1750: Stations of the Cross in the parish church of St. Valentin in Bad Reichenhall
- 1753/54: Altarpieces in the parish church of St. Martin in Thalgau
- 1757/58: Hallein salt mine and salt works cycle
- 1760: High altar picture of the parish church Strobl
literature
- Heinrich Winkelmann: The Hallein salt system and its pictorial representation in the princely rooms of the maintenance office building in Hallein. Wethmar 1966.
- F. Martin: Werkstätter, Johann Benedikt . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 396 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werkstätter, Benedikt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Werkstötter, Benedikt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1708 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neumarkt am Wallersee |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1772 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |