Johann Jakob Player

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Johann Jakob Spieler (also: Spiller ; born July 26, 1741 in Haus bei Scheidegg ; † October 26, 1793 in Laufenburg ) was a church painter .

Life

St. Martin, Eglofs
St. Marien, Bad Zurzach

Johann Jakob Spieler was born as one of seven children of Liesel Albinger from Lingenau and Georg Jörg Spieler in the village of Haus, which at that time belonged to Lindenberg . As a teenager he was already interested in ceiling painting and had decorated the ceiling in the entrance of his parents' house with angels. In 1765 he was commissioned by the Lindenberg baroque master builder Johann Georg Specht to create the choir fresco of the Aurelius Church in Lindenberg. In 1766, again on behalf of Specht, he created the frescoes of the parish church of St. Martin in Eglofs and in 1767 of the parish church of St. Johannes Baptist in Thalkirchdorf .

During his traveling years, Johann Jakob Spieler met his first wife, Euphrosina Menschen, and married her on April 21, 1768 in Lindenberg. He had five children with her. After several years of wandering, the family settled in Au until 1781. On October 15, 1781, Johann Jakob Spieler married his second wife, the pharmacist's daughter Maria Theresia Hartmann in Laufenburg. He had eight children with her, all of whom were born in Laufenburg.

Johann Jakob Spieler died on October 26th, 1793 at the age of 51 in Laufenburg.

Works (selection)

  • 1765: Choir fresco of the Aurelius Church in Lindenberg (painted over in 1795)
  • 1765: 15 stations of the cross in the Aurelius Church in Lindenberg
  • 1766: Frescoes in the parish church of St. Martin in Eglofs
  • 1767: Frescoes in the parish church of St. Johannes Baptist in Thalkirchdorf
  • 1776: Oil portraits by Xaver Fendrich (1751–1842) and Apollonia Bleule (1743–1804) in Laufenburg
  • 1778: Ceiling frescoes, medallions, paintings of the apostles and pictures of the Stations of the Cross of the Church of St. Leonhard in Au in the Bregenz Forest
  • 1786: Altarpiece "Christ on the Cross" on the high altar in the parish church of St. Marien in Bad Zurzach

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heinz Spieler: Johann Jakob Spieler (1741-1793) - church painter from Lindenberg . In: Home day for the district of Lindau {Bodensee} e. V. (Ed.): Westallgäuer Heimatblätter . 97th year, March 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Player, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiller, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Church painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH House near Scheidegg
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1793
Place of death Laufenburg