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Franz Altmutter: Self-Portrait, Tyrolean State Museum (1806)

Anton Franz Altmutter (born September 4, 1745 in Vienna , † January 21, 1817 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Franz Alt Mutter first learned from the painter Bande and then attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Caspar Franz Sambach , Jakob Christoph Schletterer and Jacob Matthias Schmutzer . He then traveled to Bavaria and Bohemia , eventually settling in Hungary for many years . Altmutter came to Innsbruck via Graz in 1771, which became his final home. In 1780 his son Jakob Placidus was born , who also became a painter.

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Franz Altmutter was a very versatile and productive artist, whose works in the late baroque tradition of Paul Troger were of particular importance for Tyrol. He created oil paintings , watercolors and pastels , as well as frescoes . His subjects range from portraits to history painting, from religious and mythological images to still lifes ; But above all his frescoes are important for Tyrolean churches. He achieved notoriety and popularity with the so-called old mother's room in the Innsbruck Hofburg , where he sometimes depicted scenes from Tyrolean folk life based on his son's models. Altmother also worked as a set designer and wallpaper painter.

“Adoration of the Shepherds” (1800); Augustiner Museum, Rattenberg, Austria

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Altmutter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ presenting his daughter , p. XXVIII, accessed on August 19, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Old mother, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Old mother, Anton Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1817
Place of death innsbruck