Franz Xaver Eggert

Franz Xaver Eggert (born November 11, 1802 in Höchstädt an der Donau , † October 14, 1876 in Munich ) was a German glass painter .

Life

The son of master saddler Leonhard Eggert (1777-1818) and Maria Anna, née Englmayer (1783-1875) from Höchstädt, first completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter with Martin Hölzl in Augsburg and from 1824 attended the art academy in Munich . In 1829 he was employed by the royal enamel painting establishment, where he worked until 1851. Franz Xaver Eggert started his own business at a time when there was a great demand for stained glass. Employees of his workshop in Munich were August Hövemeyer and the porcelain and glass painters Karl Biller , Georg Fortner and Anton Sonner and, since the late 1850s, his son Sigmund Eggert . He worked with Max Ainmiller and Josef Kirchmair , occasionally with Caspar (Gaspard) Gsell in Paris and Heinrich Hess and Heinrich Burkhardt in Munich. His workshop delivered stained glass windows to England; In 1854 she showed three church windows at the Munich industrial exhibition, and in 1855 porcelain paintings at the world exhibition in Paris.

A street is named after him in his hometown Höchstädt an der Donau.

Church window (selection)

Stained glass window in the St. Salvator cemetery church in Höchstädt an der Donau

• Mariahilfkirche in Munich-Au, around 1840
• Regensburg Cathedral
• Cologne cathedral
• St. Salvator Cemetery Church in Höchstädt an der Donau, 1845/1849 (destroyed in 1945; remains of the windows in the Höchstädt Museum of Local History)
• Salvator Church (Christ Church) in Kilndown , Kent , circa 1850
• Basel Minster , 1856/57
• Konstanz, St. Stephan and Nikolaus: Choir window: Hl. Dreifaltigkeit / Christ in the Mandorla, 1863
• Burgdorf, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, 1868 (removed in the 1950s)
• Collegiate Church in Baden-Baden

• Evangelical town church in Offenburg, Baden, middle choir window The Crucifixion , "Birth" and "Resurrection", 1863

literature

• Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc.. 22 volumes, Munich 1835–1852, 4th volume 1837: Dumet - Gallimard: Eggert, Franz
• Adolf Layer : Outstanding personalities and genders . In: District and city of Dillingen then and now . Ed. District Office Dillingen an der Donau, Dillingen an der Donau 1967, p. 92.
• Eva Anwander-Heisse: Stained Glass in Munich in the 19th Century. (= Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia; Vol. 161, New series of the Munich City Archives)
• Elgin Vaassen: Pictures on Glass. Glass painting between 1780 and 1870. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich a. Berlin 1997, pp. 237-240 and notes.
• AKL 32 (2002)
• Siegfried Weiß: Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, p. 55.

Web links

Commons : Franz Xaver Eggert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files