Gotthard Hilzinger

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Gotthard Hilzinger's ceiling fresco in Minseln

Gotthard Hilzinger (* May 12, 1718 (baptism date) in Geißlingen , † September 12, 1781 in Waldshut ) was a Southwest German church painter of the Rococo .

Life

Gotthard Hilzinger came from Geißlingen, today part of the municipality of Klettgau . Few indirect information is known about his education and career. In 1749 he was interrogated in Waldshut as a witness in a building law matter during the construction of the rectory. In the naturalization protocol of the city of Waldshut of June 11th, 1762 it is noted: "... gotthardt hilzinger from gißlingen born profesion a painter who was taught and respectively raised there, and has been on the Frembde for several years ...". After Konrad Sutter, the son of a farmer from Geißlingen grew up in Waldshut from 1730 and completed his training as a painter here too. Even if there is no evidence, Hilzinger is regarded, due to stylistic similarities, as a student of Franz Joseph Spiegler , who carried out several larger commissions in the Upper Rhine region and northern Switzerland from the mid-twenties to the mid-fifties. Gotthard Hilzinger settled permanently in Waldshut in the 1940s, where he bought the house and property. In June 1762 Hilzinger was accepted into the citizenry. From 1765 to 1770 Hilzinger owned the Haus zum Strauss and from 1770 to 1778 half of the Haus zum Affen. Hilzinger got involved in debts and lawsuits at the end of the 1960s and lived in simple accommodation on Waldshuter Rheinstrasse until his death in 1781.

family

Gotthard Hilzinger married Maria Anna Hetzel on February 17, 1763, the daughter of the lieutenant governor Franz Ignaz Hetzel. Of the six children, four died in infancy. One remaining son and daughter died young at the age of 24 and 22 respectively. Maria Anna Hilzinger survived the man by 23 years.

Artistic activity

Hilzinger worked mainly in the southern Black Forest and northern Switzerland as a fresco and altarpiece painter. The first portrait commissions have been guaranteed since 1756. Some portraits of his friends and clients have survived. Hilzinger shows original features, especially in his late work and portraits, but remains clearly behind Spiegler's work. Hilzinger received comparatively modest fees. His fee for painting the church in Miseln was about a third of the cost estimate of a competitor Brechin from Rheinfelden. Under the burden of debt, he carried out profane painting and decorating work in recent years.

Works

Secure work

  • Ceiling frescoes in the parish church Maria Himmelfahrt von Waldkirch , 1759/1760
  • Frescoes depicting the martyrdoms of St. Peters and St. Paul in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul of Minseln , 1762/1763
  • Ceiling fresco and twelve medallions in the parish church of St. Ulrich and St. Verena von Seedorf UR , 1762/1763
  • Two altarpieces, depicting the Immaculate and St. Laurentius, in the village church of Waldshut-Aichen, 1765
  • Frescoes with the martyrdoms of St. Clemens and St. Sebastian in the parish church of Dogern , 1767
  • Portrait of the Kalvarienbergkaplans Josef Straubhaar with astronomical instruments, Museum Alte Metzig Waldshut, 1771
  • Frescoes in the parish church of St. Marcellus von Hänner , 1773/1774
  • Altarpiece with the Assumption of Mary into heaven and a martyrdom of St. Sebastian, made for the parish church in Waldshut, in St. Clemens in Dogern since 1812, year (s) of origin unknown

Attributed Works

  • Ceiling fresco in the village chapel of Hohentengen-Bergöschingen (attributed to J. Bertsche 1937), year of origin unknown
  • Fresco with putti and altar curtain in the Waldshut Calvary Chapel (attributed to M. Bauerfeind 1979), year of origin unknown
  • An altarpiece from the life of St. Nicholas and a Kl. Borromaeus in the St. Nikolaus chapel in Krenkingen , year of origin unknown
  • Portrait of the three king altar chaplain Anton Landherr, Museum Alte Metzig Waldshut, 1771
  • Portrait of a canon with oboe, harpsichord and sheet music, Stadtmuseum Rheinfelden AG, provenance rectory in Möhlin, 1772

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Sutter: Gotthardt Hilzinger, Ekkhart 1981, in Badische Heimat, p. 71.
  2. ^ Alemannisches Jahrbuch, volumes 1964–1965, Alemannisches Institut (Freiburg im Breisgau), 1966, p. 303
  3. ↑ Konrad Sutter: Gotthardt Hilzinger, Ekkhart 1981, in Badische Heimat, p. 80f.
  4. ↑ Konrad Sutter: Gotthardt Hilzinger, Ekkhart 1981, in Badische Heimat, p. 78f.

literature

  • Sutter, Konrad: Gotthardt Hilzinger (1718–1781). To life and Work of the Waldshut baroque painter . - Baden homeland. 60, No. 4, 1980, pp. 71-82
  • Raimund Kolb: Franz Joseph Spiegler. 1691-1757. "Baroque vision over the lake". Narrated life picture and scientific monograph . Bergatreute 1991, notes on Hilzinger p. 231 and p. 274. ISBN 3-89089-019-9

Web links

Commons : Gotthard Hilzinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • [1] Virtual tour through the nave of St. Clemens in Dogern
personal data
SURNAME Hilzinger, Gotthard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hilzinger, Gotthardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Southwest German church painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Goatlings
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1781
Place of death Waldshut