Johann Georg Etgens

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Johann Georg Etgens (Czech Jan Jiří Etgens ; * 1693 in Brno ; † January 21, 1757 ibid) was a Moravian baroque painter and fresco artist .

Triumph of Faith (1720) in the Moravian Gallery in Brno

Life

After an apprenticeship in his hometown Brno, Etgens went to Rome, where he continued his education in the studios of the artists Carlo Maratta and Sebastiano Conca . After his return in 1730 he worked as a painter and fresco artist in Bohemia , Moravia and Silesia . In 1732 he was busy painting the dome and the side walls of the Brno Minorite Church, after which he worked for the Cistercian monastery Velehrad and the monastery Hradisch . In 1738/39 he painted the hanging domes in the Raigern collegiate church . In 1739 he frescoed the central nave vault of the Jesuit church St. Nikolaus in Schweidnitz , and around 1750 he painted the vaulted refectory in the Jesuit college in Schweidnitz. He received special recognition for the wall paintings in the pilgrimage church in Kiritein . The frescoes in the Piarist Church in Kremsier were completed by Etgen's student J. Stern.

Etgens painted several altar leaves for the churches in Raigern , Iglau and Wrana .

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personal data
SURNAME Etgens, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Etgens, Jan Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moravian baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1693
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1757
Place of death Brno