Franz Xaver Jungwirth
Franz Xaver Andreas Jungwirth , also Jungwierth (born December 1, 1720 in Munich , † January 5, 1790 in Munich) was a German engraver and etcher .
Life
Jungwirth was the son of a field surgeon (military doctor) and learned copperplate engraving from Joseph Mörl . He engraved numerous religious representations after works by contemporary Bavarian artists and after pictures in Munich churches, pilgrimage pictures, allegorical and symbolic representations.
He created over 80 portrait etchings based on models by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta , but also others based on other models. He also created etchings from Munich and Freising based on models by Bernardo Bellotto , known as Canaletto . His portrait copperplate engraving of the court painter Franz Ignaz Oefele and the engraving of the altar of the Kreuzkapelle in the Michaeliskirche in Munich after Hans von Aachen are also known .
His most extensive work, however, is probably a hundred etchings only on the Psalm Miserere . Jungwirth was also not too shy to create decorations for funeral ceremonies. He also worked for Munich book publishers .
Johann Karl Schleich was one of his students . Jungwirth's own son Maximus also learned the art of engraving from his father, but died early in 1768.
Works (selection)
- Trade letter for various Landshut guilds , copper engraving, 1762
- Franz Xaver Jungwierth: Funeris solemnia in lugubri apparatu serenissimo ac eminentiss. DD. Ioanni Theodoro SRE cardinali episcopo Frising, Ratisbon… 1763 ( archive.org ).
- Senectus , Depiction of Age , copper engraving, around 1775
- Coat of arms of Franz Töpsl , provost of Polling Monastery , copper engraving, 1744 ( virtuelles-kupferstichkabinett.de )
- Blasius Weis, caretaker at the Chur-Baierischen Academie
- Academy pieces in the Churpfalzbaierischen drawing school in Munich under the direction of Professor Oefele designed and etched from life
literature
- Jungwirth, Franz Xaver. In: Lorenz von Westenrieder : Description of the capital and residence city of Munich in the current state. Verlag Johann Baptist Strobl, Munich 1782, p. 403 ( books.google.de )
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : Jungwirth, Franz Xaver . In: New general artist lexicon: or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers etc. EA Fleischmann, Munich 1838, p. 509 ( books.google.de ).
- Jungwirth, Franz Xaver . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 332 .
- Felix Joseph von Lipowsky : Bavarian artist lexicon. Volume 1, p. 136 f. ( digital-sammlungen.de )
- Erika Bosl: Jungwierth, Franz Xaver Andreas. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 399 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Works by and about Franz Xaver Jungwirth in the German Digital Library
- Digital portrait index
- Examples of works at artnet.de
- Examples of works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the old German sources - copied from one another - he is mistakenly called Biacetti .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jungwirth, Franz Xaver |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jungwierth, Franz Xaver Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver and eraser |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1720 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1790 |
| Place of death | Munich |