Bonaventure of Andelfingen

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Bonaventure von Andelfingen: Memorial picture on the death of Father Floubert on September 7th, 1781

Bonaventura von Andelfingen (documented between 1762 and 1781) was a German monk and painter from the Upper Austrian Capuchin Province .

life and work

Little is known about Brother Bonaventure. He worked in Upper Austria in the second half of the 18th century and came from Andelfingen or Heiligkreuztal . In the middle of the 18th century he joined the Capuchin order and worked as a painter and painting restorer for the order. References to his life and work can only be found in his work signed with his full name. In the former Archbishop's Study Home St. Fidelis in Sigmaringen , a representation of St. Fidelis, commissioned with the mission, has been preserved from the period after 1750. In 1762 he painted a St. Fidelis von Sigmaringen in contemplation for the Capuchin Church in Wurmlingen . In 1770 a St. Fidelis followed before the Crucified for the Capuchin Church in Riedlingen . In 1770 he created the representation of the Holy Grave for the Haslach cemetery chapel . The Pharmacy-Historical Museum of the University of Basel has a depiction of a pharmacy laboratory from 1777. On the occasion of a visit by the order general in 1780, he restored the church of the Capuchin monastery in Constance . The last known and dated work from 1781, which was created in Waldshut , depicts a death scene in a monastery cell . These few known works date from an activity that lasted at least twenty years. Presumably his extensive work was drastically reduced as a result of the secularization of the former Upper Austrian Capuchin monasteries.

literature

  • Richard Schell: Fidelis of Sigmaringen. 1577-1977. The saint in the representations of art from four centuries. Jan Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1977, ISBN 3-7995-4013-X , pp. 122 and 134.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Schell: Fidelis of Sigmaringen. 1577-1977. The saint in the representations of art from four centuries. Jan Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1977, ISBN 3-7995-4013-X , pp. 122 and 134.
  2. ↑ Publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy e. V. International Society for the History of Pharmacy, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1967, p. 114.
  3. ↑ Freiburg Diocesan Archive, Freiburg, Volume 17, 1885, p. 286.
personal data
SURNAME Andelfingen, Bonaventura from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German monk and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Andelfingen
DATE OF DEATH after 1780