Franz Joachim Beich

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Franciscus Joachimus Beych, engraving by Georg Kilian
Georges Desmarées: Franz Joachim Beich, 1744

Franz Joachim Beich (born October 15, 1665 in Ravensburg (baptism date), † October 16, 1748 in Munich ) was a German painter.

life and work

Beich comes from a family of craftsmen in Munich. His father Daniel Beich became a citizen of the Free Imperial City of Ravensburg in 1662 and worked there as a painter and cartographer. In 1665 his son Franz Joachim was born. From 1670 onwards, working increasingly as a cartographer for the Bavarian court, Daniel Beich moved with the family to Munich in 1674 . Franz Joachim probably received training as a landscape painter in Munich from his father or from a relative named Wilhelm Beich.

Beich's first paintings (the first known picture is an evening mountain landscape from 1694 ) show an international style based on Dutch and Italian models, which apparently exactly met the taste of the Bavarian Elector Maximilian II Emanuel . When Max Emanuel had his shiny baroque palace , the New Palace, built in Schleissheim , Beich received the most important commission to furnish it with paintings: the elector, who became known as the conqueror of the Turks , had him paint representative paintings of his battles in Hungary. 1703 - 1704 emerged as two monumental paintings that determines the castle were built into the Great Hall. With a size of 5.10 × 9.69 m each and a weight of around 1.5 t each, The Relief of Vienna 1683 and The Battle of Mohács 1687 are the largest canvas paintings owned by the Bavarian state (and probably the largest to this day in Germany, which were not conceived as circular paintings ). In 1704 he was awarded the prestigious title of elector valet and court painter by the elector .

The Dogs of War of the Spanish Succession the court, however, was dissolved and Beich hoping for new customers in Italy , where he is from 1704 - 1714 was staying. In Rome and Naples he met numerous well-known artists and was also able to collect many painterly motifs. In Naples he seems to have been unrivaled among the Dutch and German landscape painters of his time, as the enthusiastic comments of Francesco Solimena and others suggested by Bernardo De Dominici . On the way back to Germany, he stopped in Livorno for a longer period of time .

FJ Beich: Landscape with a view of Munich and hunting party returning home

Around 1714 he returned to Germany, where he could hope for new orders after Max Emanuel's return. On January 26, 1715 , Beich married Anna Elisabeth Schmidtin from Bruck (Upper Bavaria) in Munich . The elector again resorted to his court painter Beich when he needed representative paintings for his palaces. As a result Beich Malte von 1718 - 1722 / 23 , the Nymphenburg views of the electoral pleasure palaces of Nymphenburg Palace , and 1720 - 1725 ten more battle scenes for Schleissheim Palace, which can be seen in the local Victory Hall. The richness of detail in the paintings and Beich's conscientiousness, who even visited the sites of the battles, make the paintings a valuable source for military history . After Beich was only paid irregularly by the chronically financially weak court, Max Emanuel's death in 1726 also ended his career as a court painter, as the subsequent elector ordered rigorous austerity measures.

In the following, Beich mainly painted landscapes, some with biblical figures, for noble or middle-class clients as well as for some Bavarian monasteries. A cycle of 14 views of Bavarian Marian pilgrimage sites for the Citizens ' Hall of the Marian Congregation in Munich, built in 1710, was also produced by around 1730 . Beich painted 13 of the 14 views.

Beich does not seem to have had any pupils in Munich. His native landscapes, however, had an impact on Munich landscape painting around 1800. Beich's friends included the painters Cosmas Damian Asam and Georges Desmarées . Towards the end of his life, Beich's hearing and eyesight deteriorated more and more. In 1748 he died in Munich after a peaceful retirement.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.mmkbuergersaal.de/buergersaalkirche/oberkirche.html
  2. ↑ http://kirchen-muenchen.beepworld.de/buergersaalkirche.htm
  3. ↑ https://www.mmkbuergersaal.de/buergersaalkirche/oberkirche/wallfahrtsorte.html
personal data
SURNAME Beich, Franz Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beich, Joachim Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baroque painter, Bavarian court painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized October 15, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1748
Place of death Munich