Valentin Gappnigg

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Valentin Gappnigg (* 1661/62 in Styria ; † 1736 ) was an Austrian painter .

life and work

Eisenhofen Castle in the Fürstengang

Gappnigg came to Freising in 1698 after Prince-Bishop Johann Franz Eckher von Kapfing and Liechteneck had commissioned him to decorate the prince's corridor of his residence to make paintings of the properties of the Freising Monastery. A total of 32 paintings were created by 1702. The paintings are now in the Diocesan Museum Freising and have been replaced by copies . Gappnigg also worked for the prince-bishop in the palace and in the Erching chapel ; the two monuments still appear today as he painted them in 1699.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sigmund Benker / Marianne Baumann-Engels: Freising. 1250 Years of the Spiritual City - Exhibition in the Diocesan Museum and in the historic rooms of the Domberg in Freising, June 10 to November 19, 1989, Wewel Verlag, Munich 1989. ISBN 3-8790-4162-8 , p. 375 ff.
  2. ↑ Hubert Glaser (Ed.): Hochstift Freising. Contributions to the history of property , Wewel, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-87904-167-9 , pp. 15-114.

Web links

Pictures in the Fürstengang Freising

Two pictures in the historical lexicon of Bavaria

personal data
SURNAME Gappnigg, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1661 or 1662
PLACE OF BIRTH Styria
DATE OF DEATH 1736