Johann Georg Bergmüller

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Johann Georg Bergmüller

Johann Georg Bergmüller (born April 15, 1688 in Türkheim , † March 30, 1762 in Augsburg ) was an important baroque painter . He mainly painted using the fresco technique , but also on canvas.

Life

Ceiling painting in the church of Fulpmes
Ceiling painting in the church of Ochsenhausen
Ceiling painting in the church of Steingaden
Altarpiece in Ummendorf
Ceiling painting in Steingaden (detail)

He received his first artistic training in his father's carpentry workshop in Türkheim. From 1702 to 1708 he was an apprentice to the Munich court painter Johann Andreas Wolff . In 1711 he went on an educational trip to the Netherlands. In 1713 he became a master and received Augsburg citizenship. There he married Barbara Kreutzerin in the same year. Of the ten children, Johann Baptist Bergmüller also became a painter, fresco painter, engraver and art theorist.

Johann Georg quickly gained a reputation in Augsburg and created many works of art there, even if hardly anything has survived in Augsburg itself. He was the most important teacher of fresco painting at the Augsburg Imperial City Academy founded in 1710 ; his compositional style and his pictorial motifs became the model for many students and epigones. In 1723 he published a textbook with engraved plates on the proportions of the human body ( Anthropometria ... ), followed in 1752 by a similar work on the order of columns ( Geometric scale ... ). In 1730 he became the Catholic director of the academy; together with an evangelical director, he presided over it until his death.

His most famous students were Johann Georg Wolcker , Gottfried Bernhard Göz and Johann Evangelist Holzer .

Works

Textbooks

  • Johann Georg Bergmüller: Anthropometria, Sive Statura Hominis a Nativitate ad consummatum aetatis incrementum ad dimensionum & proportionum Regulas discriminata: Or: Stature of man, from birth, according to his growth and different ages , Augsburg 1723 ( digitized version )
  • Johann Georg Bergmüller: Geometric scale of the essential division and proportions of the column orders, derived from the squares of the Doric column order for all other orders according to the Pythagorean teaching method, (...) , Augsburg 1752 ( digital copy )

literature

  • Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt:  Bergmüller, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 396.
  • Art monuments of Middle Franconia. City of Eichstätt . Munich 1924, pp. 361-367, 764
  • Oswald Läuterer: The artists of Türkheim. A contribution to the art history of Central Swabia. 1st part: Johann Georg Bergmüller. Landsberg am Lech 1953
  • Erika Hanfstaengl:  Bergmüller, Johann Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 91 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Angela Boecker: The oil paintings, drawings and prints of the Augsburg academy director Johann Georg Bergmüller , Diss. Univ. Innsbruck 1966
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Johann Georg Bergmüller. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 519.  ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
  • Johann Georg Bergmüller 1688–1762. Mahler and Director of the Academie in Augspurg , 1988, ISBN 3-87437-268-5
  • Alois Epple (Ed.): Johann Georg Bergmüller, 1688–1762. For the 300th anniversary of his birth. Exhibition in Türkheim Castle . Weissenhorn 1988
  • Lore Lüdicke: The frescoes by JG Bergmüller - a cycle of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Notre Dame monastery church (Eichstätt). In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 81/82 (1988/89), pp. 133-179
  • Alois Epple: The altar pictures by Johann Georg Bergmüller in Aldersbach, in: Ostbairische Grenzmarken 33 (1991), pp. 123-129
  • Ingo Seufert: Johann Georg Bergmüller in Fultenbach, in: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Schwaben 91 (1998), pp. 143–168
  • Josef Straßer: Johann Georg Bergmüller: 1688–1762. The painting. Salzburg Baroque Museum December 3, 2004 to January 30, 2005 (exhibition catalog), 2004
  • Peter Prange: German drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Hamburger Kunsthalle 1450–1800. 2 vol., Verlag Böhlau 2007, ISBN 3-412-35305-1
  • Peter Stoll: Johann Georg Bergmüller, Johann Evangelist Holzer, Joseph Mages, Joseph Hartmann… Who painted the Augustine cycle of the Holy Cross in Augsburg? . Augsburg, University 2011 ( full text )
  • Alois Epple, Josef Straßer: Johann Georg Bergmüller (1688–1762). The paintings. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg i. General 2012, ISBN 978-3-89870-521-9

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of German Art Monuments Baden-Württemberg I, ed. v. Georg Dehio, arr. v. D. Zimdars et al. a., Munich a. a. 1993, p. 551
  2. ↑ Bergmüller's authorship of some paintings (side altars) in the Guardian Angel Church in Eichstätt has been questioned during restoration work. Possibly. the pictures come from Johann Evangelist Holzer, a pupil of Bergmüller.
personal data
SURNAME Bergmüller, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baroque fresco painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1688
PLACE OF BIRTH Türkheim near Buchloe
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1762
Place of death augsburg