Franz Sebald Unterberger

Mary with the child and the saints Jacob and Heinrich. High altar sheet from the St. Jakobskirche in Ortisei in Val Gardena , now in the Museum Val Gardena , by Franz Sebald Unterberger

Maria Adored by St. Nicholas of Franz Sebald Unterberger in the parish church of Castelrotto

Franz Sebald Unterberger (born August 1, 1706 in Cavalese ; † January 23, 1776 there ; often also written Unterperger ) was a South Tyrolean painter of the Baroque .

Life

Franz Sebald Unterberger was the son of Christoph Unterberger (1668–1747), an imperial Unterwald master and barrel painter, and Maria Elisabeth Lieb. Christoph's grandfather Oswald probably immigrated to the Fiemme Valley around 1620 from the Pustertal .

Franz Sebald's brother Michelangelo Unterberger and his nephews Ignaz and Christoph , whose fame Franz Sebald wrongly exceeded , also come from the Unterberger painter dynasty in Fleimstal . According to Nicolò Rasmo , Franz Sebald was undoubtedly the most talented painter of this dynasty.

Unterberger's education took place in a family environment, mainly through his brother Michelangelo, who was eleven years older than him. He experienced a strong stylistic stamping in Venice , with the influence of the painter Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687–1767) or Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699–1760), who was also of Trentino descent, to be noted. He spent a large part of his life in Brixen before he spent his old age again in Cavalese. He created numerous altarpieces in South Tyrol , Trentino and North Tyrol .

Exhibitions

1976: Bolzano City Museum
1977: Fleims Valley Community in Cavalese
1977: in Trento
1999: in Brixen: Icones Clarae - art from the Brixen Poor Clare Monastery : the 25-part Klara cycle.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Unterberger, Franz I. . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 49th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1884, p. 82 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Franz Sebald Unterberger - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Nicolò Rasmo: Franz Sebald Unterperger painter 1706–1776. Bolzano 1977.

personal data
SURNAME	Unterberger, Franz Sebald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Unterperger, Franz Sebald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	South Tyrolean painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cavalese
DATE OF DEATH	January 23, 1776
Place of death	Cavalese

[1] Nicolò Rasmo: Franz Sebald Unterperger painter 1706–1776. Bolzano 1977.