Gottfried Bernhard Göz
Gottfried Bernhard Göz (also Goez or idol ; baptized 10. August 1708 in Velehrad , Moravia ; † 23. November 1774 in Augsburg ) was a painter of the Rococo , who worked in southern Germany and numerous frescoes and engravings created.
Life
Göz's father Sebastian Göz was a locksmith in the Cistercian monastery in Velehrad . Presumably Göz attended a primary school there. In 1718 he enrolled as a student in the Jesuit grammar school in Hungarian-Hradisch . The lessons there were very much focused on the knowledge of rhetoric and grammar, so that he may have acquired a good knowledge of Latin, but rather little knowledge of natural sciences and geography.
He completed his painting apprenticeship with Franz Gregor Ignaz Eckstein (1689–1741), who was restoring the monastery church of Velehrad with other Brno painters at the time. After about four years he probably went on a journeyman journey, which took him to Augsburg in 1730 , where he later settled. Augsburg was not only a trading center for goods and finances, but also for printed products and art objects. If Göz had not already learned the technique of copperplate engraving earlier , it was there at the latest that he acquired this skill and created engravings on behalf of publishers. When Johann Georg Bergmüller learned Göz (1688-1762) probably also the technique of etching .
He achieved his mastery rights in 1733. Now he was able to buy himself and his fiancé, Anna Elisabeth Lesin from Vienna , the citizenship of Augsburg and marry them in the same year. His first wife died early; In 1736 Göz married again. His second wife, Maria Eleonora Magdalena von Erdenfeld from Lower Austria , gave birth to a son and a daughter. His son Franz Regis Göz married the sister of Göz's colleague Johann Joseph Anton Huber (1737–1815).
Göz worked temporarily with the Augsburg publisher Johann Christian Leopold . But primarily with the brothers Joseph Sebastian and Johann Baptist Klauber (copper engraver) in his workshop and joint publishing house until 1741. The copper engravings published there bear the signature "Göz et Klauber"
In 1742 Göz then founded his own copper engraving publishing house. In 1744 he received the honorary title of imperial court painter and copperplate engraver from Charles VII . He was considered a respected citizen of the city; so he was appointed company captain of the civil military in 1753.
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Göz is a representative of late baroque monumental painting. He learned the style at FG Eckstein. The teacher's artistic role model was the Italian Andrea Pozzo , whose illusionistic ceiling paintings had become style-defining. There Göz got to know the massive illusionism and the complicated pseudo-architecture that characterize his frescoes. With Eckstein he learned fresco and oil painting as well as probably the theoretical knowledge of perspective theory .
From around 1739 he worked as a fresco artist; first in Augsburg, then in 1741 in Meersburg , where he painted the chapel of the New Palace. In 1742 he created the ceiling fresco of the audience hall in Weingarten Abbey ; there he introduced the Rocaille shapes typical of the Rococo into his work. Further orders in the Dominican monastery of Habsthal and in the Constance Dompropstei followed.
At the end of April 1749, Göz began frescoing the newly built pilgrimage church in Birnau . He completely painted the vaults over the apse , choir and nave. He also created two altarpieces and portraits of the abbots of the monastery. In the ceiling fresco of the nave there is also a self-portrait as a beggar with a crutch.
In the collegiate parish church of St. Kassian in Regensburg , Göz created a large-scale cycle of Mary and ceiling frescoes between 1754 and 1758, which thematize the pilgrimage to Mary with anti-Jewish stereotypes. In 1751 he frescoed a chapel in Wörnitzstein and ceilings in Leitheim Palace . After a long time he was called to other church paintings in 1762 and 1766, including the collegiate church of the old chapel in Regensburg. He created his last frescoes in the cathedral and parish church of St. Ursen in Solothurn .
For the Admont Abbey in Styria, Göz painted a series of large-format oil paintings depicting religious saints that were temporarily hung in the library room. While the paintings were partially lost, four sculptures of the virtues wisdom, science, prudence and truth, which the local sculptor Josef Stammel carved from Göz's models, have been preserved in the Admont Abbey Library .
Göz's copperplate engravings, around 250 sheets, were mostly made without commission. About half of them are made using the elaborate point stitch technique. His self-developed "free style without a four-sided frame or frame of the picture", that is, motifs without a frame, he had himself protected by an imperial privilege; Likewise, a method of “printing copper pictures with bundled colors on ground arth” (quoted in Isphording 1997).
literature
- Eduard Isphording: Gottfried Bernhard Göz 1708–1774. Oil paintings and drawings . 2 vols. Anton H. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1984. ISBN 3-87437-155-7 and ISBN 3-87437-092-5
- Eduard Isphording: Gottfried Bernhard Göz 1708–1774. An Augsburg history painter of the Rococo and his frescoes . Anton H. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1997. ISBN 3-87437-334-7
- Peter Stoll: Gottfried Bernhard Göz and the side altar paintings of the parish church of Tapfheim . University Library, Augsburg 2008 ( full text )
- Peter Stoll: Gottfried Bernhard Göz, Franz Anton Zeiller and Scheer's rosary donation . University Library, Augsburg 2011 ( full text )
- Peter Stoll: The princes of the apostles by Gottfried Bernhard Göz in the Jesuit Church of the Holy Cross in Landsberg am Lech . University Library, Augsburg 2014 ( full text )
- Gerhard Woeckel: Götz, Gottfried Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 586 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Mančal: Leopold ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the page of the Stadtlexikon Augsburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Göz, Gottfried Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Götz, Goez |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Rococo painter and engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized August 10, 1708 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Velehrad , Moravia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1774 |
| Place of death | augsburg |