Georg Anton vacation

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Georg Anton Urlaub (* 20th June 1713 in Thüngersheim ; † 20th February 1759 in Würzburg ) was a Frankish painters of the Baroque .

Self-Portrait (1735)
Maria Salver, the widow of Georg Anton Urlaub and later wife of the archivist Johann Octavian Salver

Childhood and youth

Georg Anton Urlaub was the first of nine children of Georg Sebastian Urlaub and Anna Maria Feser. Two of his siblings, Johann Georg and Georg Christian , later also became painters, like their father and grandfather Aegidius . Nothing is known about the first years of vacation.

Training and employment

For about ten years he was on the road, which took him to Vienna and Italy, among other places. From 1735 Urlaub worked at the Würzburg residence under Prince-Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn , to whom he painted a tribute in the Dutch style of the court painter Johann Rudolf Byss at the age of 22 . Urlaub knew that Byss († 1738), who was 73 at the time, was very much appreciated by the prince-bishop and that he was also looking for a suitable successor. Two small allegorical paintings date from around 1737, celebrating the rulership virtues of Prince-Bishop Friedrich Carl von Schönborn and expressing the Prince's desire for a long life. In autumn 1737 he sent him to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with a scholarship of 200 guilders per year , where Georg Anton Urlaub stayed until 1741. In 1739 he complained to his patron about the large number of students who were faced with too few professors:

“But when could I make greater progress with the famous Italian painter, Mr. Bencowich, than with this lesson, with the kays. freyen hoff academy, however, there are by and large several scholares, consequently Bencowich, who has only been mentioned, would use several times for me, but then I strive for nothing more than to perfect myself completely in this art of grinding, but such a thing from the loss of my own resources and me not a few annual pensions would have allowed me to create the necessary food and clothing was graciously acquired could not be possible "

However, the request for training from the Venetian painter Federico Bencovich , who had created altar leaves for the Schönborn Chapel in Würzburg , was not granted. In February 1740, Georg Anton Urlaub asked again for a grant; also about being able to move into one of the vacant rooms in Schönborn's garden palace in Laudongasse.

The Würzburg prince-bishop reacted on March 13, 1740. He wrote in a postscript to Hofkammerrat Köberl, who was in Vienna:

“We also give you hereby to obedient (ams) ter message based on recomendation from h. Count Gundel von Althan our subject vacation from here with an annual pension p. 200  fl. Should be provided by our receptorat ambt, if you then send the said graffen v. Althan have, besides, our area, which will be out of the academy as soon as possible, should be given an opportunity to approach Schönborn, and all there to copy the 2 large pieces in the hall diligently over the summer, and the accademie once again in the future winter to be frequented, therefore the necessary cloths and colors are to be given to all that belongs to it, sambt quartier in tem schloss and daily one gulden maintenance money stays outside for as long as it is, to hand over expenses at the local chamber, you have the necessary accommodation and disposal close and we stay with you etc. "

In a letter from December 1740 to Friedrich Carl von Schönborn, the architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt pointed out that he was not only able to paint but also to model. He also informed the prince-bishop that he wanted to travel to Rome to perfect his painting there. In April 1742 he renewed this request:

"The copist from Ihro hochfürstl. Grace. /: H. Urlaub: / has asked me that because he cannot profit from his art in Vienna, as if he had in mind to go to Rome, when he would have the high grace of permission, and if he were as young as he is, not You see if you have a good talent both in grinding and modeling, besides having a good spirit and morale, as if he were to qualify for a little while and in the service of your high prince. Grace. guethe spend things, which is why I also try to recommend them. "

In the court chamber minutes of September 2, 1741, the recall vacation was finally noted in a letter dated August 26:

“... how the Mahler Uhrlaub sent to the countries, his things are well completed and therefore sent here, like those of the other Bysian disciplines, more dissuaded to put them into work and entertainment, but especially to give them to the glass mill make, meanwhile, this one can earn his bread from the missing pictures in which parades sleeping rooms will be able to earn. "

In the following year Urlaub was appointed court painter and was also assigned a helper. However, since he wanted to “completely perfect himself in this Mahlerey art”, as he wrote to the prince-bishop several times, but instead had to carry out the reverse glass paintings for the mirror cabinet in the residence according to finished designs, he had little room for his artistic development.

At the Accademia Clementina

In mid-1744 he finished his employment and traveled to Bologna, where he studied at the Accademia Clementina , one of the best art schools in Europe at the time. In October 1745 he received the 2nd Sculpture Class Prize for his work, which was presented personally by Cardinal Doria. Due to financial problems, he turned to Friedrich Karl von Schönborn in a letter of appeal in 1746. In it he asked for the support of the prince-bishop as well as for the placing of an order, which he promised to "... umb a cheap preiß ... with all possible diligence ...". He also wrote that he was also served with a pension - he wanted to repay this after completing his studies, which he had to interrupt for lack of money. The prince-bishop, however, was still upset because of the sudden departure of his vacation last year, he noted in the margin of the letter: "This runaway guy is to be turned away."

In January 1747, “Giovanni Antonio Urlao di Franconia” received the first class prize in figure drawing and the first sculpture class from the Accademia jury. This award, which was also mentioned in the certificate of March 29, 1747, was one of the highest at the Accademia.

Return to Würzburg

In 1749 - vacation was in Venice, the center of modern Italian painting at the time - Karl Philipp von Greiffenclau-Vollrath became the new prince-bishop in the bishopric. Vacation requests to him were ignored, however. In 1751 he returned to his homeland; Here he received the order from Langheim Abbey to create the high altar sheet in the parish church in Merkershausen ; a year later, the Würzburg Dominicans secured his services for an altarpiece in the Dominican Church, which, however , fell victim to the bombing raid on Würzburg in 1945 . Also in 1752 he received a fresco commission in the church in Ipthausen , a year later he was to do the same work in the parish church of Eyershausen . Between 1753 and 1756 he received further orders from the Dominicans and Carthusians. Due to the many orders from Würzburg, he applied for citizenship there, which was granted to him on October 9, 1755.

On October 13, 1755, Urlaub married Anna Maria, a distant cousin of his from Thüngersheim, which is why he had to apply for a dispensation for this. He was rehabilitated under the new Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim . In 1757 he was graciously accepted and accepted by him as a "Cabinets Inspector with the addition of the title of Cammer servant"; However, vacation wages were not particularly high. During the Seven Years' War, Urlaub painted frescoes and decorative paintings in the surrounding area, for example in Königheim in 1756 and in Sonderhofen a year later ; he also worked as a portrait painter at the Würzburg court. On September 15, 1757, Urlaub succeeded Franz Ignaz Roth as court painter to the Prince of Würzburg. In 1758 Urlaub became a father for the second time after 1756 - the first-born was Georg Adam Anton († August 17, 1776) - but his second son Georg Hermann Joseph died on October 28, only six months after the birth. He survived less than half a year on vacation, he died on February 20, 1759 and was buried in the cemetery of the Dominican monastery in Würzburg.

Works (selection)

  • Glory of St. Bruno (around 1753/54)

  • Portrait of a child (around 1757/58)

  • Allegory of the life of Prince-Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn (around 1737)

  • Allegory of the virtues of Prince-Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn (around 1737)

  • Allegory of the government of the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim (around 1755/57)

  • Judith with the head of Holofernes (around 1750/51)

  • Annunciation to Mary (around 1756)

  • Portrait of the Würzburg locksmith Johann Georg Oegg (around 1751/52)

  • Glorification of the Name of Jesus (around 1751/52)

literature

  • Nagia Knott: Georg Anton Urlaub (1713–1759). A Franconian painter , Würzburg 1978.
  • Georg Anton Urlaub - A Franconian painter under the spell of Tiepolo. Special exhibition of the Mainfränkisches Museum Würzburg , Würzburg 1996.

Web links

Commons : Georg Anton Urlaub  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: p. 663.
  2. ↑ Franz Ignaz Roth, brother of Franz Joseph Roth , married Anna Barbara Dochein in 1721/22, the widow of the Antwerp painter Antoni Dochein, who also worked as a court painter in Würzburg. Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 647 and 948.
personal data
SURNAME Vacation, Georg Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franconian Baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH Thüngersheim
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1759
Place of death Wurzburg