Franz Joseph Soll

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Franz Joseph Soll (also Franz Josef Soll , Joseph Soll ; * 1734 probably in Fridingen an der Donau ; † February 9, 1798 in Trostberg ) was a rococo church painter who was mainly active in southeastern Upper Bavaria around Trostberg and Traunstein . He was one of the Trostberg Rococo artists.

Self-portrait of the painter with his wife in the parish church of St. Vitus in Kirchweidach (top left)

life and work

He is said to have worked as a journeyman in Munich around 1750. Around 1758, together with the sculptor Joseph Benedikt Kapfer and the builder Franz Alois Mayr, he was involved in the painting of the churches of Margarethenberg (municipality of Burgkirchen an der Alz ) and later the monastery church of Raitenhaslach . Soll lived in Trostberg-Schedling from 1761. After working in Gstaig ( Feldkirchen bei Mattighofen , Upper Austria ) northeast of Michaelbeuern ( Salzburg State ), he was involved in the design of the monastery church of Baumburg Monastery . Subsequently, he was involved in the decoration of the churches of Alzgern (city of Neuötting ), Deinting (city of Trostberg), Feichten an der Alz , Hart (municipality of Chieming ), Kirchweidach , Lauterbach (municipality of Nußdorf am Haunsberg , State of Salzburg), Marienberg , Neufahrn (Municipality of Mettenheim ), Niedergottsau (municipality of Haiming ), Sankt Johann (city of Neuötting), Schedling (city of Trostberg), Schnaitsee , Berg (municipality of Schnaitsee) and Siegsdorf as well as the former castle chapels in Wald an der Alz (municipality of Garching an der Alz ) and Schedling active. He also painted the parish church and the cemetery chapel of Tacherting . He died in February 1798.

Soll was married to the barrel painter Maria Soll, with whom he depicted himself on the fresco above the left side altar in the church of Kirchweidach .

Soll's sons Johann Nepomuk and Ignaz († 1841) also worked as painters.

Catalog raisonné

Ceiling painting in the forest on the Alz
Ceiling fresco in Siegsdorf
  • Pilgrimage church in Gstaig (Upper Austria) (1762): History of the miraculous image of Genazzano .
  • Parish church St. Erasmus (former castle chapel) in Wald an der Alz , ceiling paintings of the nave (1762): King David and the miracles of St. Erasmus. Excerpt from the main altar.
  • Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary in Feichten an der Alz , ceiling painting (1763/1764) in the choir: Mary as Queen of Heaven with archangels, martyrs and figures from the Old Testament; in the central nave: Death of Mary and Assumption into Heaven; south aisle: Marienleben; north aisle: Legend of the Rosary Brotherhood.
  • Filial church St. Sixtus and Sebastian in Deinting: six frescoes by apostles on the nave walls (1765).
  • Parish Church of Our Lady in Tacherting , fresco in the flat dome (around 1766/1767): Mary as Queen of Heaven.
  • Lauterbach (Land Salzburg), Filialkirche Vierzehn Nothelfer, ceiling painting, inscribed 1767: four church fathers, coat of arms of Abbots Pichler and Moser von Michaelbeuren, in the dome the 50 Israelite heroes are received by King David, opposite view of the Michaelbeuren monastery. Left cross arm: scene with St. Barbara, in the right cross arm probably St. Aegidius, in the apse the lamb and the book with the seven seals.
  • Filial church St. Rupertus in Neufahrn, large ceiling painting (1772): Bavaria entrusts itself to St. Rupertus.
  • Parish church of St. Laurentius in Hart, choir altarpiece, now on the north wall of the nave: Intercession of St. Laurentius with the Holy Trinity (around 1775).
  • Parish Church of St. Veit in Kirchweidach (1775), circular dome fresco: five scenes from the legend of St. Vitus; Choir fresco: St. Vitus in the dungeon; Fresco above the gallery: St. Vitus is thrown to a lion; Fresco under the gallery: Expulsion of the traders from the temple. In the fresco above the north side altar u. a. Self-portrait with wife. High altar picture (1784) with the martyrdom of St. Vitus, altar leaves on the side altars (north of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, inscribed 1795, south of St. Leonhard).
  • Side church of St. Joseph in Schedling (formerly the palace chapel), ceiling fresco (1779): Karl Borromeo with the plague sufferers.
  • St. Anna cemetery chapel in Tacherting, frescoes on the flat ceiling: Adoration of St. Anne by the St. Anna brotherhood, including self-portrait with wife; Temple walk of Mary. Oil painting on the altar: Anna selbdritt (1780).
  • Parish Church of the Conception of Mary in Siegsdorf (1781): fresco in the stab cap barrel with adoration of the head of Christ and fire in the town of Traunstein in 1704.
  • Expositurkirche Niedergottsau: Stations of the Cross (1785).
  • Filial church St. Johannes Baptist in St. Johann, frescos: Beheading of St. John and Salome before Herod, Herod's palace with a scene rich in figures (marked 1787).
  • Parish Church of the Assumption in Alzgern , frescoed (1788). Painting of the side altars (adoration of St. Wendelin; St. Eustachius).
  • Parish Church of the Assumption in Schnaitsee : Choir fresco with homage to the apocalyptic lamb (1791/1792).
  • Filial church St. Nikolaus in Berg (community Schnaitsee): grisaille frescos on the stab cap barrel (Nikolauslegende, 1797).

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kilian Kreilinger: Kirchweidach - Catholic parish church St. Vitus . Art Guide No. 176, 3rd edition, Verlag Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2004, ISBN 3-7954-4168-4 , p. 16 and 20th
  2. ^ Kilian Kreilinger: Kirchweidach - Catholic parish church St. Vitus . Art Guide No. 176, 3rd edition, Verlag Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2004, ISBN 3-7954-4168-4 . P. 7.
  3. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch: Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs, Bd. Salzburg Stadt und Land . Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7031-0599-2 , p. 279.
personal data
SURNAME Soll, Franz Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soll, Franz Josef; Should, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rococo church painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Fridingen on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1798
Place of death Trostberg