Franz Zoller (painter)

Franz Zoller (born February 10, 1726 in Gufidaun , † March 4, 1778 in Vienna ) was an Austrian baroque painter .

Life

Franz Zoller was the son of the innkeeper Anton Zoller and his wife Elisabeth, b. Kirin. At a young age he went to Vienna, where his older brother Johann Baptist lived. In 1740 he is mentioned in the files of the Vienna Academy . Nothing is known about his training; he probably worked in a painting workshop at first. In 1748 he worked as an assistant to Paul Troger on the frescoes in Brixen Cathedral . In the 1750s he worked in the Waldviertel . In 1760 he submitted his recording piece, a St. Hieronymus joined the academy to become a real member. He died unmarried and childless in 1778 in Vienna.

Zoller created altar leaves and frescoes for churches in Vienna and Lower Austria. He belongs to the last generation of representatives of the Viennese academy style, which was largely influenced by Paul Troger and Michelangelo Unterberger . His works are very much oriented towards Troger's painting style, he hardly shows any independent painterly development, especially with the frescoes. He often took motifs from Troger's frescoes.

Works

Ceiling fresco The Our Father's Intercession IV-VII , Lichtentaler Parish Church (1771/72)

Frescoes in the Collegiate Church of Geras (1771)

• former high altar adoration of St. Trinity through St. Erhard , Mauer parish church , Vienna, after 1751 (attributed)
• Side altarpiece Death of St. Josef , Neulerchenfelder parish church , Vienna, around 1754/55
• High altar painting stoning of St. Stephen (attributed) and side altarpiece Glory of St. Katharina , parish church Weikertschlag an der Thaya , around 1755
• High altar picture Nativity of Mary , Orphanage Church , Vienna, 1770/71
• Ceiling frescoes to the Our Father , high altar picture Fourteen Holy Helpers and side altar picture St. Johann von Nepomuk as advocate for the poor and sick , Lichtentaler parish church , Vienna, 1771/72
• Cycle of frescoes for the Lauretanian Litany , Collegiate Church Geras , 1771
• Vault frescos, high altar picture St. James , side altar paintings Lamentation of Christ and St. Anna teaches Maria to read , Fratting parish church , around 1772
• Side altarpiece Holy Kinship , parish church Walkenstein , around 1775 (attributed)
• Ceiling frescoes with scenes from the life of John the Baptist, parish church Blumau an der Wild , 1777

literature

• Ursula Wagner: The South Tyrolean baroque painter Franz Zoller (1726–1778) . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2008 urn : nbn: at: at-ubw: 1-29320.26050.140559-8
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Zoller, Franz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 60th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1891, p. 250 ( digitized version ).
• Zoller, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 548 .
• Franz Zoller in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Web links

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