Dominik Weber

Freiburg-Kappel, St. Peter and Paul, high altar picture

Dominik Weber (born July 27, 1819 in St. Peter , Black Forest ; † September 7, 1887 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German painter.

Life

Dominik Weber was the son of the stone sculptor Matthias Weber (1790–1866) and the grandson of the builder Johann Baptist Weber (1756–1826). He initially worked as a clock shield painter and then a student of the Freiburg painter Dionys Ganter . In 1842 he went to Munich, where he studied at the art academy and got to know the art of the Nazarenes . In 1847 he returned to Freiburg, in 1850/51 he lived in Niederemmendingen , then again in Freiburg.

Weber painted portraits as well as landscape and genre pictures, but mostly sacred subjects.

Works

1856 Oberhaben , St. Stephan, altarpiece stoning of St. Stephen
1856 Freiburg, Alter Friedhof , Michaelskapelle , restoration and painting over of the Freiburg Dance of Death
1857 Pfaffenweiler , St. Columba , upper picture of the high altar, St. Columba
1872 Rotenberg , St. Nikolaus , altarpieces for the side altars (St. Anna selbdritt, St. Michael)
1874 Freiburg-Kappel , St. Peter and Paul , high altar picture
1876 Vöhrenbach , St. Martin , 14 stations of the cross
1878 Waldkirch , City Chapel of Our Lady , painting Holy Family in the stable and, The twelve year old Jesus in the temple
1879 Ehaben , Berghauser Chapel , altarpieces for the side altars (Saint Ursula of Cologne, pilgrimage picture "Maria vom Guten Rat")
1884 Herten , St. Urban , restoration of the high altar picture, two altar pictures for the side altars
1887 Herten, Maria Schnee cemetery chapel, dance of death based on the model of the Freiburg dance of death

literature

Weber, Dominik . 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. 216 .
Klaus Weber: The Freiburg painter Dominik Weber and his family. In: Schau-ins-Land. 101, 1982, pp. 263-274 ( digitized version )
Margret Zimmermann: 19th and 20th century paintings. Augustinermuseum Freiburg; Inventory catalog. Modo-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2004, ISBN 3-937014-01-2 , pp. 332-338. 415.

Web links

Commons : Dominik Weber - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 00098 Dominic Weber. In: Matriculation Book. Volume 2: 1841-1884. ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
^ Removed again in 1893, condition documented by Dominik Weber in Adolf Poinsignon (ed.): The dance of death in the St. Michaelskapelle in the old cemetery in Freiburg im Breisgau. Freiburg i. Br. 1891 ( digitized ).
↑ Bernhard Adler: Great creative power and intense colors. The Vöhrenbacher Kreuzweg by the Freiburg painter Dominik Weber. In: Schwarzwald-Baar district. Almanac. 22, 1998, pp. 221-226.
^ Elisabeth Dupont: The Maria Schnee chapel in Herten . 2008 (with all pictures).

personal data
SURNAME	Weber, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 27, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Peter (Black Forest)
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1887
Place of death	Freiburg in Breisgau

[1] 00098 Dominic Weber. In: Matriculation Book. Volume 2: 1841-1884. ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).

[2] Removed again in 1893, condition documented by Dominik Weber in Adolf Poinsignon (ed.): The dance of death in the St. Michaelskapelle in the old cemetery in Freiburg im Breisgau. Freiburg i. Br. 1891 ( digitized ).

[3] Bernhard Adler: Great creative power and intense colors. The Vöhrenbacher Kreuzweg by the Freiburg painter Dominik Weber. In: Schwarzwald-Baar district. Almanac. 22, 1998, pp. 221-226.

[4] Elisabeth Dupont: The Maria Schnee chapel in Herten . 2008 (with all pictures).