Johann Georg Buder

Johann Georg Buder (born January 10, 1727 in Memmingen ; † June 10, 1759 there ) was a painter in the Baroque period .

Life

Johann Georg Buder was born on January 10, 1727 in Memmingen, Upper Swabia . He was the sixth of eight children of the carpenter Georg Buder. He completed an apprenticeship as a painter with Johann Leonhard Rupprecht . On October 14, 1749, he was enrolled in the Imperial Academy in Vienna. In 1753 he sent his picture Johannestod to his father in Memmingen, who presented it to the Memmingen magistrate on November 19, 1753 as a gift from his son to his native city. The magistrate then decided to give Johann Georg Buder the same amount as Elias Grimmel at the time for his studies. The painting was hung in St. Martin . In 1757 Buder returned to Memmingen, where he worked as a painter until his death. He died on June 10, 1759 after an illness. Since Buder had not joined a guild, the siblings applied to be allowed to use the title of Cramer guild servant for the death celebrations, which the city magistrate approved. Because of the request of his relatives to open the will just three days after the funeral, it is assumed that Buder was not poor.

Catalog of works

Only three paintings by Buder are known, one of which is considered lost. The Beheading of John the Baptist, painted in 1753 and measuring 208 × 131 centimeters, is owned by the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Martin. The same picture with the dimensions 58 × 41 centimeters is housed in the City Museum Memmingen in the Hermansbau . It was probably painted after a bozzetto by Buder and also dates from 1753. The portrait of Johann Matthäus Unold , pastor of Memmingerberg, which was made in 1758 and which is only known from an archival reference in the Memmingerberg parish register , is considered lost.

literature

• Günther Bayer: Memmingen painter at the time of the baroque . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-454-0 .