Franz Paul Findigg

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The battle at Maxen.

Franz Paul Findeigg (* 1726 in Villach ; † July 18, 1771 in Vienna ) was an Austrian genre and battle painter .

life and work

Nothing is known about the youth or apprenticeship of Franz Paul Findeigg, he was first recorded in Vienna in 1751, where he was accepted into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts on December 7th . He worked in a studio in Leopoldstadt and married in 1757. For Empress Maria Theresa , Findeigg made several battle paintings from the time of the Seven Years' War , which are now in the Army History Museum in Vienna. A characteristic of the battle paintings by Franz Paul Findeigg are the relatively large stone tablets which he places in the foreground of his compositions and on which the legend of the respective event or battle is recorded in large letters, mostly in French.

Works (excerpt)

  • Victory of the Austrians over the Prussians at Teplitz on August 2, 1762 . Oil on canvas, around 1760, 60 × 105 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.
  • The fortified town of Landau was set on fire by the French, May 18, 1743 . Oil on canvas, 70 × 112 cm, Army History Museum, Vienna.
  • The Prussian siege of Olomouc is lifted on July 2, 1758 . Oil on canvas, 69 × 122 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.
  • The battle of Dingolfing, storming by the Austrians, May 17, 1743 . Oil on canvas, 69 × 113 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.
  • Battle between Austrians and Prussians near Maxen, November 20, 1759 . Oil on canvas, 95 × 130 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.

literature

  • Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig, 1912.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Leipzig, 1915, XI, 579.
  2. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Hall II - The 18th Century to 1790 . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1983, ISBN 3-7023-4012-2 , p. 30 f.
personal data
SURNAME Findigg, Franz Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian genre and battle painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1771
Place of death Vienna