Johann Baptist Bommer

Johann Baptist Bommer (baptized August 1, 1705 in Aulendorf ; † July 31, 1778 in Trochtelfingen ) was a German flat and barrel painter of the late Baroque .

Life

Johann Baptist Bommer was born the eleventh of 14 children of court saddler Gabriel Bommer and his wife Anna Catharina Christin Bommer and was baptized on August 1, 1705. At first he did not have his own workshop in Trochtelfingen, but worked for the painter Johann Schiander and worked with him in the Marienkapelle in Melchingen in 1735 . On November 26th, 1736 he married Maria Ursula Schnitzerin, the sister of Trochtelfingen parish priest Joseph Anton Schnitzer, with whom the family remained closely connected when he became parish priest of Messkirch . The couple had three children:

• Franz Xaver Bommer (born September 22, 1737)
• Karl Ludwig Bommer (born January 18, 1739)
• Maria Antonia Bommer (* 1740), who died as the wife of Johann Georg Schoser at the age of almost 25 in Trochtelfingen.

When his colleague Johann Schiander died suddenly and unexpectedly on January 14, 1737, Bommer took over his workshop, which apparently was not continued by any of Schiander's sons. Through his rich activity, Bommer gained more and more the trust of his fellow citizens. In 1762 he was saints carer of the Trochtelfingen parish church and even became mayor . His workshop probably went out with his death, as his two sons, who were also painters, no longer lived in Trochtelfingen.

Works

• 1735 Ceiling painting in the Marienkapelle in Melchingen: central picture with the Holy Trinity , plus four corner medallions with the evangelists
• 1736 various votive tablets in the Marienkapelle Melchingen
• 1740 setting of a flagpole in the parish church of Melchingen
• 1746 altar leaves of St. Johann Nepomuk and the Immakulata for the side altars in Feldhausen
• 1751 version of the side altars in Feldhausen
• 1752 version of the Feldhauser high altar, the pulpit and the gallery together with his two sons and the journeyman painter Ambrosi Reiser from Gammertingen
• 1753 version of the created tabernacle of the parish church Salmendingen
• 1754 painting of a flag with a pole for the Feldhausen parish church
• 1755 version of the newly created high altar in Harthausen , which was made by carpenter Neser in Ringingen
• 1756 version of the side altars created in 1752 and the pulpit in the parish church of Salmendingen
• 1758 Delivery of paintings to the guest house of the Cistercian abbey Heiligkreuztal
• 1760 painting of the Stations of the Cross from the church in Harthausen or Feldhausen
• 1763 Version of the reliquary tablets for the Feldhausen parish church
• 1765 setting of two flagpoles for Feldhausen
• 1765 Version of the high altar in the Trochtelfingen parish church

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• Manfred Hermann: Johann Baptist Bommer (1705-78), baroque painter in Trochtelfingen. (PDF; 6.6 MB) Hohenzollerische Heimat, published by the Hohenzollerisches Geschichtsverein, Volume 26, No. 1, March 1976. Pages 26–27.