Johann Burgauner

St. Ulrich colored in a lithograph by Burgauner in 1856 by Josef Moroder Lusenberg

Johann Burgauner (born October 18, 1812 in Castelrotto , † May 13, 1891 in Brixen ) was a South Tyrolean painter.

Life

Burgauner, whose father was a master baker, attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (entry on April 4, 1845) in painting under Professor Joseph Schlotthauer . Around 1850 he was head of the drawing school in Ortisei in Val Gardena .

In old age he moved to Brixen, where he died at the age of 88. One of his nephews was the painter Eduard Burgauner (1873–1913).

Works

Madonna and Child of Burgauner in a chapel in Überwasser

He portrayed numerous important personalities of the time. Among other things, he portrayed the Val Gardena order wife Anna Maria Pesch Lautzer (1773-1836), matriarch of the family Moroder-Scurciá . The Merano Museum owns two oil paintings and numerous hand drawings by him.

Burgauner created altarpieces for the parish church in St. Christina in 1848, for the church in Eppan and the monastery church in Maria Steinach near Meran. In 1845 he also painted the Stations of the Cross for the parish church of St. Christina.

For the parish church of Castelrotto he painted the painting Heart of Mary .

In 1848 he painted the flag of the Ortisei rifle company, which is kept in the Val Gardena Museum.

The ceiling paintings of the Maria Hilf Church in Seis are by Johann Burgauner (1849).

For a family chapel in Überwasser he painted a picture of the Madonna based on the miraculous image of Mariahilf .

See also

• Sculpture in Val Gardena

Web links

Commons : Johann Burgauner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gemeindeblatt Kastelruth, p. 24 (PDF file, 3.62 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Register book of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2. ↑ A. Otto Dissertori (Editor), Hans Wieser (Text): Eduard Burgauner 1873-1913. Exhibition catalog, Castelrotto 1988
3. ↑ The Moroder, an old Ladin family from the Val Gardena-Dolomites from the 14th to the 20th century. A contribution to Tyrolean family research. Committee for the printing of the Moroder Stud Book, Ortisei in Val Gardena 1980. pp. 139–141.
4. ^ Josef Weingartner, Magdalena Hörmann. The art monuments of South Tyrol. Athesia GmbH publishing house. Bozen 1991. Volume I p. 453. ISBN 88-7014-642-1 .
5. ↑ Eugen Trapp: Art Monuments Ladinia. Val Badia. Val Gardena. Fassa Valley. Buchenstein. Ampezzo . Verlag Istitut Cultural Ladin Micurà de Rü, San Martino in Badia / San Martin de Tor (BZ), 2003. ISBN 88-8171-044-7 , p. 228.
6. ^ Josef Weingartner, Magdalena Hörmann. The art monuments of South Tyrol. Athesia GmbH publishing house. Bolzano 1991. Volume I, p. 158. ISBN 88-7014-642-1 .
7. ↑ Flag of the St. Ulrich rifle company from 1848. ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 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. 
8. ↑ Maria Hilf Church in Castelrotto. ( Memento of the original from July 14, 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. (PDF; 178 kB)