Franz Xaver Dietrich

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Franz Xaver Dietrich , also François-Xavier Dietrich (born December 3, 1882 in Bernhardsweiler in Alsace , † July 12, 1962 in Schönbrunn near Dachau ) was a German painter.

Life and works

Franz Xaver Dietrich received his training from Carl Jordan at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Strasbourg and at the Art Academy in Munich, where he was a student of Martin von Feuerstein , Wilhelm von Diez and Rudolf von Seitz , and finally from Waldemar Kolmsperger the Elder , whose son-in-law he later became has been. In 1907 he traveled to Italy and Spain with a Schack scholarship.

In addition to genre and portrait painting, church art was his field of work. Like Waldemar Kolmsperger the Younger , he belonged to his father-in-law's workshop, who ran it as in the Baroque era .

In 1903/04, as a student of Feuerstein, he and his fellow students Theodor Baierl and Georg Kau were busy painting the church in Riezlern . In the left choir arch there is a painting of the Annunciation , created by Dietrich, while Baierl left the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in the right choir arch . Following the guidance of Feuerstein, Dietrich created the monumental image in the apse above the high altar. It shows the Coronation of Mary in heaven . A Petrus Canisius picture by Dietrich was put up on the occasion of Canisius' canonization in the Jesuit church in Innsbruck .

Dietrich created ceiling paintings in the parish churches in Hirschegg and Immenstadt as well as high altar paintings for the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Neustift near Freising , the Magdalen Church in Strasbourg , the church in Unterdiessen near Landsberg am Lech and the St. Franziskus Church in Untergiesing . He painted pictures of the Stations of the Cross for the Catholic Court Church in Dresden and in 1920 he designed a war memorial for the parish church in Immenstadt. For the Munich parish church of St. Joseph he designed a way of the cross, which was built between 1904 and 1908; this is considered one of Dietrich's main works. In the years 1910 to 1911 he created together with his father-in-law Waldemar Kolmsperger the Elder. Ä. the elaborate and extensive neo-baroque vault painting of the former abbey church of St. Nabor in St. Avold in Lorraine .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Steiner, Keck can never do that! , in: Andreas Tacke (ed.), Herbst des Barock , Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-06229-7 , pp. 261–290, here p. 264.
  2. ↑ Location and building history of our church at www.pfarre-riezlern.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfarre-riezlern.de
  3. ↑ P. Robert Locher SJ, Jesuit Church of the Holy Trinity at www.jesuitenkirche-innsbruck.at
  4. ↑ 2760: DIETRICH, FRANZ XAVER (Bernhardsweiler in Alsace 1882-1962 Schönbrunn) on de.zisska.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / de.zisska.de  
  5. ^ André Pichler et Pascal Flaus: Histoire des Saint-Avold par ses monuments religieux (Societé d'Histoire du Pays Naborien), Merzig 2015, pp. 110–114.
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Franz Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietrich, François-Xavier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernhardsweiler, Alsace
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1962
Place of death Schönbrunn