Hans Georg Asam

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Fresco in the Benediktbeuern monastery church

Hans Georg Asam (born October 12, 1649 in Rott am Inn ; † March 7, 1711 in Sulzbach , Upper Palatinate ) was a German Baroque church painter .

Life

Hans Georg Asam was born as the son of the cook of the monastery brewery in Rott am Inn. Under the leadership of his father-in-law, the painter Nikolaus Prugger , he developed into one of the most important church painters of his time in the Bavarian region, and in the course of his work he developed from an oil painter to a fresco artist. His wife Maria Theresia Prugger was also an artist. She worked as a barrel painter and also bore him eleven children. After the death of his father-in-law, he took over his house and workshop at Theatinerstraße 39 in Munich.

His major works include the frescoes in the monastery church of Benediktbeuern that emerged from 1683 to 1687, the frescoes in the monastery church of the Holy Cross in Landshut and the frescoes in the parish church of St. Quirinus in Tegernsee , which he created from 1688 to 1694. In Freising in 1711 was in the auditorium of the Prince Bishop Lyceum the so-called Asamsaal , a magnificent fresco cycle. In addition, he created frescos in the ballroom of the former prince-bishop's college in Freising, in the lower Schmidmühlen Castle and the frescoes rediscovered in 1992 in the electoral rooms and in the electoral hall of the Fürstenfeld monastery , the home monastery of the Wittelsbach family.

The atlas by Hans Georg Asam decorates the convent building of the Fürstenfeld monastery.

When construction activity in southern Bavaria largely came to a standstill with the War of the Spanish Succession, he relocated his area of ​​activity to the Upper Palatinate. One of his most important secular works was created here, the painting of the Helfenberg Castle near Lengenfeld, which was demolished only a hundred years later. The altarpiece in the parish church there also comes from him. A late work is the altarpiece in the parish church of St. Marien in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, where he died in 1711. The ceiling paintings of the pilgrimage church Frauenbrünnl in Straubing are also attributed to him .

Despite his remarkable works, Asam's work is overshadowed by his sons Cosmas Damian Asam and Egid Quirin Asam .

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SURNAME Asam, Hans Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church painter of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1649
PLACE OF BIRTH Rott am Inn
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1711
Place of death Sulzbach , Upper Palatinate