Giuseppe Appiani

This article is about the fresco painter Joseph Ignaz (Giuseppe Ignazio) Appiani. For the old castrati of the same name and opera singer (1712–1742) see Giuseppe Appiani (singer) .

Joseph Ignaz Appiani (Italian: Giuseppe Ignazio Appiani; born October 16, 1706 in Munich , according to other information in Porto Ceresio in the province of Varese; † August 19, 1785 in Triefenstein ) was a painter, in particular a fresco painter , court painter to the Elector of Mainz , founder and first director of the Mainz Art Academy . He was the son of the plasterer Pietro Francesco Appiani from Porto Ceresio and Maria Sophia from (Fürstenfeld) Bruck. His uncle was the plasterer Jacopo Appiani (1687–1742).

Works

Germany

Ceiling painting in Seehof Castle

Bavaria

• Ceiling painting in the "White Hall" of Seehof Castle in Memmelsdorf near Bamberg (1751–1752)
• Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen (1763 / 1764–1769)
• Jesuit Church St. Michael in Würzburg (after 1770)
• Triefenstein Monastery (from 1784)
• High altar fresco in the old parish church of St. Jakobus in Bad Kissingen "Jakobus heals the sick on the way to his execution", signed "Appiani" on the Great Dane's collar on the left edge of the picture (from 1775)
• Heidenfeld Monastery Church (1783/1784)

Fresco in the stairwell vault of the New Castle in Meersburg

Baden-Württemberg

• Collegiate Church of the Assumption in Lindau (1749)
• Refectory in the Obermarchtal monastery
• New Castle (frescoes in the stairwell vault and in the hall of mirrors) and chapel of St. Karl Borromeo of the Meersburg seminary (1761–1762)
• St. Michael, former church of the Deutschordenskommende Altshausen (approx. 1758 and approx. 1766/1767)
• Holy Cross Chapel in Oberdorf near Konstanz (1748)
• Catholic parish church St. Afra in Obernheim (Zollernalb district) (1751–1754)
• Stadtpfarrkirche Sankt Blasius, Ehingen (Danube), ceiling painting with the Last Supper (1763–1766)

Upper Palatinate

• Waldsassen Abbey Church (1727)

Rhineland-Palatinate

• Former collegiate church (Peterskirche) in Mainz (1755/1756)

Hesse

• Bolongaropalast in Frankfurt-Höchst (1774)
• Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bad Camberg (1778–1779)

Switzerland

• Herrliberg (1732)
• Zurich (1732?)
• Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit in Solothurn (approx. 1741)
• Arlesheim Cathedral (1759–1760)

literature

• General artist lexicon
• Marion Alof: Joseph Ignaz Appiani (1706–1785): Life and work . Dissertation, University of Munich 1992. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1999.
• Jürgen Pursche: About the restoration of the ceiling frescoes by Giuseppe Appiani . In: The restoration of the pilgrimage church Vierzehnheiligen . Volume 1 (text volume). Munich 1990, pp. 242-256.
• Joseph Ignaz (Giuseppe Ignazio) Appiani . In: Painter in Franconia . Nuremberg 1993, pp. 224-225.
• Stefan Hundbiß, Juliane Wolf-Schirmer: Report on the preliminary examination on the ceiling painting by Joseph Ignaz Appiani in the White Hall of Seehof Castle . In: Yearbook of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . Volume 41. Munich 1991, pp. 101-111.
• Michaela Neubert: The artistic work of Carlo Carlone, Giuseppe Appiani and Federico Bencovich in Franconia . In: Franconia "Würzburg" . 51, Würzburg 1999, pp. 251-270.
• Heinz Leitermann : Joseph Appiani, Elector Mainz Court Painter and Academy Director: A contribution to the history of fresco painting in the 18th century in Mainz and southern Germany . Phil. Dissertation. Frankfurt 1932. In: Mainzer Zeitschrift . 30, Mainz 1935.
• Josef Heinzelmann: The Appiani - an artist family between Italy, Switzerland and Germany. With excursions about the Bossi, Cronberger, Oldelli, Paleari, Sophia and others families. a. Genealogy, 11, 1972.
• Franz Warmuth, 100 years of the Sacred Heart Parish in Bad Kissingen . Bad Kissingen 1984, p. 49.

Web links

Commons : Joseph Ignaz Appiani  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Picture gallery of his works , photo library of the Central Institute for Art History, Munich