Johann Michael Flor

Johann Michael Flor (* 1708 in Unterretzbach , Lower Austria; † after 1770) was an Austrian plasterer from the Wessobrunn school .

life and work

Little is known about his life. According to the registers of the Unterretzbach parish, Flor was baptized there on February 2, 1708. In 1741 he married Anna Maria Mallinger (Meylinger, Meyllinger) from Ravelsbach ; her six children appear in the Ravelsbach parish baptismal register. From 1743 to 1757 he appears as a property owner in Ravelsbach and Pfaffstetten .

As a plasterer, Johann Michael Flor was a student of Franz Josef Holzinger . His earliest known works are stucco altars from 1733 in the Bründl Chapel near Gobelsburg (not preserved). In 1735 he took over the stucco work at Altenburg Abbey . In 1752 he created the stucco decoration of the side altars of the parish church in Gettsdorf . In 1745 he created the stucco ceiling in the imperial room of Ottenstein Castle .

Other works:

• Arbesbach / Lower Austria, market, mansion: Maria Immakulata, stucco figure in the facade niche, 1770
• Gföhl , parish church: side altar stucco, 1752
• Krems , Untere Land-Str. 4 (attribution) and 41: Stucco facade, 1748
• Stein / Lower Austria , rectory: facade and portal stucco, stucco busts between the windows, 1743–45
• Stein / Lower Austria, parish church: stucco on the high altar, 1750; Stucco of the chapel north of the choir
• Stein / Lower Austria, town hall, ballroom: stucco ceiling, around 1740/50
• Zwettl , Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary: Stucco in the choir and in the right front aisle yoke, 1744
• Zwettl Abbey : summer refectory, 1748.

Probably his son was Johann Georg Flor, who was paid as a plasterer from Krems in 1755 for stucco work in the hall and the surrounding rooms in the Dürnstein monastery. This is likely to be identical to "a Stockhator journeyman from Ravelspach", who received a fee for stucco in Dürnstein Abbey as early as 1750.

literature

• Flor, Johann Michael . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 116 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Dankmar Trier: Flor, Johann Michael . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 41, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22781-7 , p. 296.

Web links

• Johann Michael Flor at Erdteilallegorien.univie.ac.at