Eustachius Gabriel

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Frauenbergkirche Bad Waldsee

Eustace Gabriel (* 1724 in Unterschwarzach ; † 5. October 1772 in Ljubljana / Ljubljana ) was a church painter and fresco painter of the Baroque from Upper Swabia .

Life

Eustachius Gabriel was baptized on September 20, 1724 in Unterschwarzach, which belonged to the county of Waldsee. His father, Michael Gabriel, was a carpenter and ran a small farm . No documents have been received about his training. It can be assumed, however, that he received his first training from the painter and gilder Gabriel Weiß in Wurzach and was an assistant to Matthäus Günther in Augsburg around 1744/47 . Until 1767 Eustachius Gabriel worked in Upper Swabia in the area around Bad Waldsee , in the Illertal and in the Black Forest , then in Carinthia , Styria and today's Slovenia . Gabriel died on October 5, 1772 in Ljubljana . He was buried in the church crypt of the Franciscans in Ljubljana, formerly Laibach.

Appreciation / criticism

Gabriel was stylistically influenced mainly by the following painters:

His painting style is characterized by the following features:

  • Recourse to third-party templates (especially Augsburg reproductions, e.g. Bergmüller sequences)
  • self-repeating compiler
  • inexpensive quick and multi-painter
  • lifelong difficulties and insecurities in practicing the fresco technique
  • insufficient knowledge of drawing as well as anatomy and clothing
  • in the robes the juxtaposition of coarse-burried and finely chiseled rabbets reminiscent of Maulbertsch
  • in the physiognomies, the preference for kissable figures with rosy cheeks, but sometimes coarse noses that form a straight line with the forehead
  • Virtuosity in perspective architectural painting, painted high altars and altar stages (baroque theater), model: M. Günther
  • Light-on-light painting: brown-violet or gray-black shadow areas, especially in the late work (Graz, Premstätten)

Works

Parish church Maria Himmelfahrt Tiengen
Wettingen Abbey Church, ceiling fresco, 1757
Ceiling fresco from 1766/67 in the monastery church of Reute
Parish Church of St. Gordian and Epimachus in Pless, ceiling fresco, 1766

Plants in southern Germany and Switzerland:

Plants in Carinthia, Styria and Slovenia:

  • Tainach : Propsteikirche Mariä Himmelfahrt - ceiling frescoes (whitewashed), 2 side altar paintings (1768)
  • Guttaring : Parish Church of St. Rupert - 1 altar painting in the north chapel (1769)
  • Klagenfurt : Priest house church hl. Karl Borromeo - ceiling frescoes (1769–71, removed in 1958)
  • Stein near Viktring in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee: Viktring-Stein parish church - high altar picture St. Florian, top picture Holy Trinity (1770)
  • Graz : Chapel of the Domherrenhof - ceiling frescoes (around 1770/71)
  • Unterpremstätten : Chapel of Premstätten Castle - ceiling frescoes (1772)
  • Smlednik / Flödnig (today in Medvode ): Castle - ceiling frescoes in the ballroom (around 1772)

literature

  • BUSHART, Bruno: Eustachius Gabriel, "his profession a Mahler", in: Association for Augsburger Bistumsgeschichte 29, 1995, p. 175ff.
  • BUSHART, Bruno: Comments on Eustachius Gabriel, in: Franz Anton Maulbertsch and his Swabian circle, edited by Eduard Hindelang, Sigmaringen 1996. pp. 115–122.
  • EGGER, Hermann: Caspar Johann Fibich, in: Blätter für Heimatkunde, published by the Historisches Verein für Steiermark 13, 1935, pp. 54–57.
  • FLAD, Max: A baroque painter who was loyal to Schwarzach. Life and work of Eustach Gabriel (1724-1772), in: Heimatkundliche Blätter for the district of Biberach 5, Heft 2, 1982, pp. 39–44.
  • FRISCH, Otto: Eustachius Gabriel from Unterschwarzach (1724-1772). An Upper Swabian painter of the late baroque, Bad Wurzach 1982.
  • KUNZE, Matthias: Under the spell of Tiepolo - On the resonance of Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo's art in 18th century painting in southern Germany, in: Autumn of the Baroque, edited by Andreas Tacke, Munich, Berlin 1998, pp. 137–164.
  • MEINE-SCHAWE, Monika, SCHAWE, Martin: The Reuschel Collection - Oil Sketches of the Late Baroque, Munich 1995, pp. 70–75.
  • MUROVEC, Barbara: Eustachius Gabriel's Frescoes in the Castle of Smlednik, in: Acta historiae artis Slovenica 2, 1997, pp. 153-158.
  • NEUBAUER-KIENZL Barbara, DEUER Wilhelm, MAHLKNECHT Eduard: Barock in Kärnten, Klagenfurt 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Gabriel, Eustachius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gabriel, Eustach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized September 20, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterschwarzach
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1772
Place of death Laibach