Johann Ferdinand Schor

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Johann Ferdinand Schor, copper engraving by Johann Georg Balzer after Johann Quirin Jahn , Prague, around 1760

Johann Ferdinand Schor (baptized June 24, 1686 in Innsbruck ; † January 4, 1767 in Prague ) was an Austrian painter, architect and engineer.

Life

Schor learned painting from his father Egid Schor , but also showed an interest in architecture. After his father's death in 1701, he did an apprenticeship with the painter Josef Waldmann . In 1705 he went to Rome , where students and friends of his father and his uncle Johann Paul Schor , especially the papal builder Michelangelo Ricciolini , took care of him. He spent three years in Rome, attending the Accademia di San Luca , copying the old masters and studying the city's architecture.

In 1708 he returned to Innsbruck and mainly occupied himself with decorative painting , so he and Johann Martin Gumpp the Younger created a holy grave for the Wilten collegiate church . From 1713 at the latest he lived in Prague, where he made the decorations for the celebrations for the canonization of Pius V in 1713, for the beatification of Johannes Nepomuk in 1721 and for the coronation of Emperor Charles VI. to the Bohemian King in 1723. He also designed parks on Bohemian aristocratic seats and painted altar leaves and frescoes on house facades.

In 1725 he was appointed to the Commission for the Regulation of the Vltava around Prague, which was finally carried out according to his proposals. In 1726 he was appointed professor of engineering at the Polytechnic Institute in Prague , from 1734 he gave lectures on all mathematical disciplines. In the Austrian War of Succession in 1741 and on other occasions, he planned military fortifications . He turned down the offers to join the Austrian army as an artillery major and to come as a professor at the Theresian Knight Academy in Vienna. In 1764 he drew up an expertise on making the upper Vltava navigable. Schor also wrote treatises on architecture, powder and river regulation.

family

Schor married twice. In his first marriage he was married to the widow of a descendant of the painter and copper engraver Jacob Callot , who brought two sons, Wenzel and Karl , into the marriage. Their sons were trained by their stepfather. Carl became Lieutenant General Field Marshal and owner of the First Artillery Regiment, and Wenzel became Colonel of the Dutch Artillery Corps. From his second marriage there were two sons who also started an officer career. Johann Schor died before his father as a captain in a Croatian regiment. His second son served in the imperial artillery.

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  1. ^ Johann Heinrich Füssli: Schor or Scor (Joh. Ferdinand) . In: General artist lexicon: or: Brief message about the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, art founders, steel cutters,…. 2nd part. Orell, Füssli and Compagnie, Zurich 1779, p. 610 ( books.google.de ).