Franz Anton Leitenstorffer

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Franz Anton Leitenstorffer
Franz Anton Leitenstorffer, etching, Elector Karl Theodor
Franz Anton Leitenstorffer, Supraporte in Schwetzingen Castle

Franz Anton Leitenstorffer , also Leiterstorffer or Leydensdorff (born April 14, 1721 in Reutte , Tyrol , † April 24, 1795 in Mannheim ) was a Tyrolean painter and etcher who worked for a long time in the Electoral Palatinate .

biography

Franz Anton Leitenstorffer was born as the son of the farmer Johann Leitenstorffer (Leutensdorfer) and his wife Susanna geb. Oberstorfer. From the age of 14 he learned to paint first with Balthasar Riepp in Reutte and then with Rupert Mayr in Innsbruck . Here he soon attracted the attention of the District President Johann Franz Graf von Spaur, who enabled him to attend the Vienna Art Academy and later also financed a stay in Venice , from where he went to Bologna and Rome. Leitenstorffer's teachers were Paul Troger in Vienna and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta in Venice; from 1739 to 1744 he worked as an assistant to Sebastiano Conca in Rome .

From 1744 to 1754 Franz Anton Leitenstorffer stayed in Innsbruck again . The frescoes in the parish church of St. Cross at Schönberg in the Stubai Valley were one of the first larger works. Then he went to Mainz and created frescoes in St. Peter's Church , among other things . In 1758 the artist moved to Mannheim , where he initially worked as a theater painter in the service of Elector Karl Theodor . From 1762 on, Leitenstorffer also worked here as a fresco and history painter. In 1769 the elector appointed him first cabinet painter and teacher at the Mannheim drawing academy . One of his students there was Peter Schmid (1769-1853).

Franz Anton Leitenstorffer works include images in Schwetzingen Castle , the Castle to Dusseldorf , in Benrath and in the chapel of the Hofburg (Innsbruck) . According to Neuer Deutscher Biographie, he is considered one of the best portraitists in southern Germany in the second half of the 18th century. Grisaille work was one of his specialties. Many of his works went under in World War II .

Leitenstorffer married Maria Anna born in Mannheim in 1760. Walter († 1764) and 1770 Maria Anna geb. Hertel († 1809). The daughter Maria Antonia Josepha comes from the first marriage, who married the electoral secretary Johann Joseph Lagage in 1790.

The painter died in Mannheim in 1795; in Düsseldorf a street is named after him. Karl Matthias Ernst (1758–1830) was one of his students.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website on the churches in the Stubai Valley, with a mention of Leitenstorffer's work
  2. ↑ Website about the artists of the Innsbruck Hofburg, with mention of Leitenstorffers ( memento of the original from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.helmuth-oehler.at
personal data
SURNAME Leitenstorffer, Franz Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leiterstorffer, Franz Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutte
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1795
Place of death Mannheim