Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner

Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner (* before April 4, 1718 in Mittenwald , † before December 5, 1785 in Augsburg ) was a German painter who worked in numerous churches and chapels in Bavaria .

Life

Altarpiece in the parish church of St. Adelgundis (Anhausen)

Dieffenbrunner was born into a family of craftsmen with many children. In 1746 he moved to Augsburg and learned painting in a school under the direction of Johann Georg Bergmüller (1688–1762). From 1751 to 1754 he worked in Augsburg, a. a. on the frescoes of the pilgrimage church St. Michael in Violau. From 1755 he worked in the Gutenzell monastery and in the Indersdorf monastery , where he mainly worked in the Nikolauskapelle (until 1759).

In the parish church of St. Adelgundis (Anhausen) he made three altarpieces. The painting on the left side altar shows St. Adelgundis as she receives the vestment from Jesus. The picture is signed by Dieffenbrunner with the year 1746 (“Dieffenprunner pinxit 1746”).

In 1765 he worked in the parish church of St. Martin in Kleinberghofen . He led a legal dispute about the payment , as they initially only wanted to pay him half of the agreed 400 guilders .

Dieffenbrunner was also in the parish church of St. Kosmas and Damian and the Gottesackerkapelle in Gutenzell-Hürbel , in Sulzdorf (in 1757), Vierkirchen (1767), Schiltberg (1773), Mühlhausen (1776), Aulzhausen ( St. Laurentius and Elisabeth , 1776), Haunswies ( St. Jakobus the Elder , 1777) and Oberweikertshofen (1778).

Web links

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

• Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner - (Schertl)
• The Nikolauskapelle of the monastery Indersdorf ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - (Schertl)
• Biography of Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner - (Schwabenmedia)