Franz Xaver Kirchebner
Franz Xaver Kirchebner (born December 6, 1736 in Götzens ; † November 15, 1815 there ) was a Tyrolean church painter .
Life
Franz Xaver was the son of the painter Anton Kirchebner from Axams . He first learned from his father and then studied painting from 1774 to 1778 at the Vienna Academy under Josef Hauzinger , Caspar Franz Sambach and Martin van Meytens . He then returned to Götzens and created frescoes and panel paintings for Tyrolean churches in a late baroque style with classicist influences. He often painted together with his brother Josef . One of her works are the frescoes in the parish church of Ortisei in Val Gardena in South Tyrol .
Works
- Inzing , frescoes (1779, with brother and father)
- Sistrans , (1786)
- Vill , (1791)
- Ortisei in Val Gardena , frescoes (1795/96)
- Axams, Lindenkapelle (1799)
- Zirl , Kreuzkapelle Kalvarienberg (1800)
- Patsch , Gries im Sellrain , altarpieces (1778)
- Götzens, parish church : Way of the Cross, altarpieces
- Völs , Blasiuskirche: 14 oval pictures
literature
- Kirchebner Franz Xaver. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 339.
- Margareth Runggaldier Mahlknecht, Karl Mahlknecht: Ortisei in Val Gardena - churches and church history. A text and picture documentation . Athesia Verlag, Brixen 1992.
Web links
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kirchebner, Franz Xaver |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1736 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Götzens |
DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1815 |
Place of death | Götzens |