Franz Fidel Bröchin

Ceiling frescoes by Franz Fidel Bröchin in St. Remigius in Mettau

Franz Fidel Bröchin (born April 5, 1736 in Rheinfelden AG ; † August 24, 1799 there ) was a Swiss rococo church painter .

Life

Franz Fidel Bröchin came from a family resident in Rheinfelden in Upper Austria. Little is known about the living conditions. As a fresco artist, he is stylistically close to Franz Joseph Spiegler , while also showing Viennese influences. In Minseln he submitted a cost estimate of 500 guilders for the painting of the Church of St. Peter and Paul and was subject to the much cheaper competitor Gotthard Hilzinger from Waldshut . In the 1760s and 1770s, in cooperation with the Vorarlberg plasterers Lucius Gams and Johann Martin Fröwis , he painted churches in Aargau, on the German High Rhine and in the Lake Constance area. Bröchin's main work are the frescoes of St. Remigius in Mettau, which can be counted among the best works of their time on the Upper Rhine.

Works

Gilding and ornaments on the high altar in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul of Minseln , 1762/1763
Wall and ceiling frescoes in St. Martin's Church ( Rheinfelden AG ), 1769/1772
Ceiling frescoes in the parish church of St. Remigius in Mettau , 1773/1776

Individual evidence

↑ Konrad Sutter: Gotthardt Hilzinger, Ekkhart 1981, in Badische Heimat, p. 80.
↑ Patrick Bircher: Architecture, art and handicrafts of the 17th and 18th centuries in the Upper Austrian dominion on the Upper Rhine, Alemannisches Jahrbuch 2005/2006, p. 178f.

literature

Sutter, Konrad: Gotthardt Hilzinger (1718-1781). To life and Work of the Waldshut baroque painter . - Baden homeland. 60, No. 4, 1980, pp. 71-82
Raimund Kolb: Franz Joseph Spiegler. 1691-1757. "Baroque vision over the lake". Narrated life picture and scientific monograph . Bergatreute 1991. ISBN 3-89089-019-9

Web links

[1] Tour through the nave of St. Martin in Rheinfelden AG

personal data
SURNAME	Bröchin, Franz Fidel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brechin, Franz Fidel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rheinfelden AG
DATE OF DEATH	August 24, 1799
Place of death	Rheinfelden AG

[1] Konrad Sutter: Gotthardt Hilzinger, Ekkhart 1981, in Badische Heimat, p. 80.

[2] Patrick Bircher: Architecture, art and handicrafts of the 17th and 18th centuries in the Upper Austrian dominion on the Upper Rhine, Alemannisches Jahrbuch 2005/2006, p. 178f.