Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer

Stucco work by FX and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer in Marienmünster Dießen

Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (also: Feichtmair , Feichtmayr ) the elder (born August 11, 1698 [date of baptism] in Wessobrunn ; † according to different information before August 21, 1763 or before April 28, 1764 in Augsburg ) from the artist family Feuchtmayer was a Plasterer and ornament engraver of the baroque Wessobrunn school .

Life

Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer was the son of Michael Feuchtmayer (* 1667) and the brother of Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Younger (1709–1772). His son Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger (1735–1803) followed in Franz Xaver's footsteps as the last member of the family to be mentioned in art history.

Feuchtmayer's first training probably took place with his father and later in Tyrol. At the beginning of the 1720s he made his first appearance in Augsburg: in 1727 he is mentioned as a house owner, in 1730 he enjoyed the protection of the Bavarian court in Munich. Often together with his brother, but also with Johann Michael Fischer or the brothers Matthäus and Ignaz Günther , Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer designed some of the most important church rooms in Swabia, Upper Bavaria, Middle Franconia, Main Franconia and Tyrol as a plasterer.

Feuchtmayer's style developed from the early Bandelwerk to the elegant form of expression of the high Rococo .

Significant work

Church of the Assumption, Stams Abbey

Marienmünster in Dießen

Castle church in Ellingen
Abbey church in Münsterschwarzach
1723–1724: Dominican Church of St. Magdalena in Augsburg (Johann Michael F. the Younger and Joseph Anton F.)
1731–1734: Collegiate Church in Stams
Parish Church of the Assumption in Walleshausen
Parish church of St. Elisabeth in Sterzing
1738–1739: Marienmünster in Dießen am Ammersee
1743-1744; 1751 (after partial collapse of the ceiling in 1750): Abbey Church of St. Josef in Fiecht (together with Johann Michael F. the Younger)
1745: Catholic parish church of St. Gordian and St. Epimachus in Stöttwang
1750: St. Georg in Dießen am Ammersee
1752: Grafrath
1754: Wilten Abbey near Innsbruck
1754–1755: Augustinian Church in Indersdorf
1758–1762: Sünching Castle near Regensburg
1759–1763: St. Marinus and St. Anianus monastery church in Rott am Inn
around 1760: Basilica Vierzehnheiligen in Bad Staffelstein (together with Johann Michael F. the Younger)

Individual evidence

↑ after Schnell / Schedler, Künstler und Handwerker, 1988, p. 113. There, an older attribution to another Feuchtmayer of this first name with year of birth 1705 is refuted. In the 1961 edition, the German biography named 10 December 1705 as the (but questionable) date of birth.

literature

Norbert Lieb: Feichtmayr, Franz Xaver I. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 52 f. ( Digitized version ).
Hugo Schnell, Uta Schedler: Lexicon of Wessobrunn artists and craftsmen. Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-7954-0222-0 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Feuchtmayer, Franz Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Feuchtmayer, Franz Xaver the Elder; Feichtmair; Feuchtmayr; Feichtmayr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German plasterer and Rococo sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized August 11, 1698
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wessobrunn
DATE OF DEATH	before April 28, 1764
Place of death	augsburg

[1] ter Schnell / Schedler, Künstler und Handwerker, 1988, p. 113. There, an older attribution to another Feuchtmayer of this first name with year of birth 1705 is refuted. In the 1961 edition, the German biography named 10 December 1705 as the (but questionable) date of birth.