Chrysostom Forchner

Chrysostomus Forchner (born January 21, 1721 in Dietenheim , † November 13, 1791 in Dietenheim) was a painter of the Upper Swabian Baroque .

Life

Forchner fresco in St. Martin in Tannheim 2012

Chrysostomus Forchner was the four years younger brother of the Baroque painter Franz Xaver Forchner, who was presumably trained by Johann Georg Bergmüller at the Augsburg Imperial Academy . The brothers shared a workshop in Muttensweiler . After completing the job in Muttensweiler and the death of his brother in 1751, Chrysostom had to close the joint workshop. After the famine of 1770/71, bad times for artists had dawned in Swabia . Church orders for baroque painters dried up.

Forchner survived his older brother Franz Xaver by forty years and died in 1791. The death book in the Dietenheim parish archives describes that Chrysostomus Forchner ended his life in extreme poverty and illness.

Works

Chrysostom Forchner painted frescoes in the following churches and chapels:

St. Jakobus Muttensweiler , 1751
St Urban Reinstetten
Anna Chapel in Dietenheim
Kreuzkapelle Dietenheim
St. Martin Tannheim , 1766

literature

Max Flad: Franz Xaver and Chrysostomus Forchner. Two baroque painters from Dietenheim . In: Heilige Kunst 22, 1984/85, pp. 23–48.
Alois Epple: The frescoes of the parish church in Tannheim . In: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde Tannheim (Hrsg.): 300 years of the Church of St. Martin Tannheim. Festschrift for the anniversary in 2002 , pp. 58–68.
Winfried Aßfalg: "... better adorned with an honorable husband from the Forchnerischen Pemsel ..." In: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde Tannheim (Hrsg.): 300 years church Sankt Martin Tannheim. Festschrift for the anniversary in 2002 , pp. 31–35.

Web links

Commons : Chrysostomus Forchner - Collection of images, videos and audio files

City of Dietenheim - The Holy Grave

Individual evidence

^ Alois Epple: The frescoes of the parish church in Tannheim . In: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde Tannheim (Hrsg.): 300 years of the Church of Sankt Martin Tannheim, Festschrift for the anniversary in 2002 , p. 68.

personal data
SURNAME	Forchner, Chrysostom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 21, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dietenheim
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 1791
Place of death	Dietenheim

[1] Alois Epple: The frescoes of the parish church in Tannheim . In: Katholische Pfarrgemeinde Tannheim (Hrsg.): 300 years of the Church of Sankt Martin Tannheim, Festschrift for the anniversary in 2002 , p. 68.