Franz Joseph Spiegler

Ceiling painting in Zwiefalten

Franz Joseph Spiegler (born April 5, 1691 in Wangen im Allgäu , † April 15, 1757 in Konstanz ) was a German baroque painter . He was best known for his frescoes , which decorate some churches and monasteries on the Oberschwäbische Barockstraße . The ceiling paintings in the Minster of Our Lady of the Zwiefalten Abbey are considered to be his main work .

Life

Spiegler was born as the son of a district court procurator in the Free Imperial City of Wangen im Allgäu. After his father's early death in 1692, his mother, who came from an old patrician family in Wangen, married the (craft) painter Adam Joseph Dollmann. So Spiegler became familiar with the painting trade early on. Around 1710 Spiegler received training as a painter in Munich from his great-uncle, the Bavarian court painter Johann Kaspar Sing , where he also got to know the history painting of the time, which was influenced by Dutch painting. It is questionable whether he worked as a barrel painter and gilder at Wolfegg Castle and the surrounding area from 1712 to 1723 . From 1723–1725, Spiegler made frescoes in the Ottobeuren monastery under the strong influence of Jacopo Amigoni, who shaped Munich court art . In the following years he created frescoes and oil paintings for numerous monasteries, churches and castles, especially in Upper Swabia, on Lake Constance, in the Black Forest and on the Upper Rhine. Spiegler died in Constance in 1757.

Works

Ceiling painting in the Trinity Church in Constance

• Fresco in the parish church of Maria-Thann (today in Hergatz ), 1722/1723
• Frescoes in the Ottobeuren monastery (frescoes in hallways and stairwells and in the abbot's secret archive, ceiling fresco comedy and tragedy in the theater), 1723
• Fresco (with an iconological program on the saltpeter riots ) in Bonndorf Castle in Bonndorf in the Black Forest , 1726. The frescoes in Bonndorf Castle Chapel were destroyed while moving, an altarpiece was "disposed of" around 1974 out of ignorance.
• Frescoes in the monastery church of St. Peter in the Black Forest , 1727
• Frescoes in Zwiefalten Monastery (prelature), 1728–1729
• Panel painting , probably from Bonndorf Castle in the Black Forest , today in the parish church of Herdwangen
• Frescoes in the Salem Minster (south arm of the transept and organ gallery), 1730
• Fresco in the castle chapel Schloss Mochental , 1734
• Fresco "Divine Virtues" in the Lindau women's monastery in Lake Constance , today district office and district court, 1736
• Frescoes in the Mainau Castle Church , 1737–1738
• Fresco in the west wing of St. Peter's Monastery in the Black Forest , 1739
• Frescoes and three altar leaves in the parish church of St. Remigius in Merdingen , 1739–1741
• Fresco in the Trinity Church (Konstanz) , 1740
• Series of 12 paintings in the Benedictine Abbey of St. Paul in Carinthia, around 1740/45
• Four side altar leaves and upper images in the monastery church of the Capuchin monastery in Stühlingen , 1740–1741
• Frescoes and oil paintings in the Untersulmetingen castle chapel
• Five oil paintings for the high altar and side altar in the St. Martin monastery church of the Muri monastery in Muri in Aargau , 1746
• Frescoes and three oil paintings in the parish church of St. Martin in Altheim , 1747
• Frescoes in Zwiefalten Minster, 1747–1753
• Fresco in the chapel in Gossenzugen near Zwiefalten, from 1749
• Frescos from the Fridolin Minster in Säckingen , 1753–1754 together with his student Johann Anton Morath
• Pilgrimage altar sheet in the minster in Radolfzell
• numerous oil paintings and altar leaves

Individual evidence

1. ^ Judith Wörner and Hans Jakob Wörner, Kunstdenkmäler im Landkreis Waldshut , in: Der Kreis Waldshut , p. 149, 1979.
2. ↑ Peter Stoll, Ein hl. Benedict by Franz Joseph Spiegler in the parish church of Herdwangen (2nd, revised version). Online publication, Augsburg 2011 ( full text )

literature

• Paul Beck: Swabian Biographies. 17. Painter Joseph Franz Spiegler , in: Diöcesanarchiv von Schwaben , 16th year 1898, issue 5, pp. 78–80 ( digitized version )
• Tapan Bhattacharya: Spiegler, Franz Joseph. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2010
• Harriet Brinkmöller-Gandlau:  Spiegler, Franz Josef. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 984-985.
• Bruno Bushart: Franz Joseph Spiegler. Attempt to determine your position . In: Eduard Hindelang (Ed.): Franz Anton Maulbertsch and his Swabian circle. Sigmaringen 1996. ISBN 3-7995-3165-3 , pp. 87-114
• Hubert Hosch: Franz Joseph Spiegler (1691–1757). On the development and influence of the baroque painter , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 111th year 1993, pp. 119–156 ( digitized version )
• 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
• Michaela Neubert: Franz Joseph Spiegler 1691–1757. The artistic development of the panel painter and fresco artist . Weißenhorn 2007. ISBN 978-3-87437-487-3
• Peter Prange:  Spiegler, Franz Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 684 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Peter Stoll: Comments on the program of Franz Joseph Spiegler's frescoes in the Benedictine abbey church in Zwiefalten . University Library, Augsburg 2008 ( full text )
• Peter Stoll: A St. Benedict by Franz Joseph Spiegler in the parish church of Herdwangen . University Library, Augsburg 2011 ( full text )

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Franz Joseph Spiegler in the catalog of the German National Library