Johann Michael Franz (painter)

Johann Michael Franz (born December 11, 1715 in Dirlewang near Mindelheim , † April 5, 1793 in Eichstätt ) was a baroque painter and fresco artist .

Youth and education

His parents were the master carpenter Jakob Franz (* 1681) and Anna geb. Lueger. He enjoyed his education in the circle of the Augsburg Imperial City Art Academy Director Johann Georg Bergmüller (Bergmiller) (1688–1762); according to his own statements, he completed it in 1733.

As court painter in Eichstätt

Franz has been in Eichstätt since 1739. In 1751 he was appointed court painter to the prince-bishop; on November 22nd of the same year he married the daughter of the court printer, Maria Anna Magdalena Strauss (the son Anton also became a painter). His main creative period falls under Prince-Bishop Raymund Anton Graf von Strasoldo , for whom he particularly furnished the rococo hunting lodge Hirschberg with frescoes and oil paintings. The fresco artist Franz is regarded as a “virtuoso in the art of painting on a wet throw.” (Quote from: Eichstätts Kunst, p. 107). He was a "typical representative of the local painting schools and court art centers widespread at that time" (quote: Bosl, p. 217).

Fall of the Phaeton, ceiling painting in the former prince-bishop's residence in Eichstätt

Raymund Anton Count von Strasoldo . Portrait painting by Johann Michael Franz

Admission sheet to the Marian Congregation

Works

• Glorification of God by the Dominican Order , ceiling fresco (1740) in the stairwell of the former Dominican monastery in Eichstätt
• Beilngries , Catholic parish church St. Walburga: Altarpiece with the Hll. Mary, Dominic and Catherine of Siena
• Eichstätt: Maria-Hilf chapel, ceiling painting (1744); Guardian Angel Church, St. Aloisius, St. Stanislaus; former prince-bishop's residence, fall of Phaeton , ceiling painting in the stairwell (1768; 1919 by painter Pfleiderer, Munich, restored), allegories of justice and peace, ceiling paintings (glue paints) in the hall of mirrors (1768) (with self-portrait?); Courtyard garden at the former summer residence, frescoes in the main pavilion (1781); Ceiling fresco of the chapter hall (today: Diözesanmuseum) (1762; rediscovered in 1977 and partially restored); in the Diocesan Museum also oil portrait of Prince-Bishop Raymund Anton Graf von Strasoldo (1773)
• Sindlbach , Catholic parish church St. Jakobus: ceiling fresco with scenes from the life of St. James d. Ä. (1758)
• Staufersbuch , parish church St. Martin, ceiling painting “Glorie des hl. Martin "(around 1769)
• Hirschberg Palace : Oil paintings in the Imperial Hall: Empress Maria Theresa, Emperor Franz I, Emperor Joseph II, Isabella of Parma, four Habsburg princes (all 1760); Knight's Hall : Ceiling painting "Sacrifice of Iphigenia " (1764) and oil paintings: Count Gebhard VII., Prince-Bishop Raymund Anton Graf von Strasoldo (1783), views of cities of the Hochstift Eichstätt (Eichstätt, Beilngries with Hirschberg, Berching , Abenberg , Greding , Ornbau , Gap ) (1765/66)
• Pettenhofen near Ingolstadt , parish and pilgrimage church of the Birth of Mary : ceiling painting Visitation of Mary and Assumption of Mary (1778); Participation in the high altar (1778)
• 12 oil paintings with half-length portrait of the diocesan saints in Eichstätt (1786) from the cathedral, in the Eichstätt seminary since 1882
• Oil painting by Prince-Bishop Johann Anton III. from Zehmen (1783)
• Wide Format Painting of a Landscape with a Small Building (1793)
• Buxheim , Catholic parish church St. Michael: ceiling painting (1778; destroyed in the new building in 1911)
• Version of the organ prospectus in Eichstätter Dom (no longer available)
• Draft drawings for the certificate of admission to the Marian Congregation Eichstätt (1768)
• (Together with Maurizio Pedetti ) Hochstiftskalender (first printed in 1759)

literature

• Eichstätts art. Verlag der Gesellschaft für Christian Kunst, Munich 1901, p. 107 f., 113.
• Franz, 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. 389 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Josef Bleicher: Eichstätts artist. Eichstatt 1929.
• Erika Hanfstaengel:  Franz, Johann Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 374 ( digitized version ).
• Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt. 61 (1965/66), Eichstätt 1968, p. 73 f.
• The renewal of the former prince-bishop's residence in Eichstätt 1976/77 (= collector's sheet of the historical association Eichstätt. 70, 1977).
• Edgar Baumgartl, Gabriele Lauterbach, Kornelius Otto: Painter in Franconia. The life and work of artists from five centuries. Spätlese Verlag, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-924461-12-0 .
• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Bavaria. The art monuments of Middle Franconia. I. City of Eichstätt. Munich 1924, reprint Munich and Vienna 1981: R. Oldenbourg, ISBN 3-486-50504-1 .
• Friedrich Hermann Hofmann, Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Bavaria. The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg. XII. District Office Beilngries. I. District Court of Beilngries. Munich 1908, reprint Munich and Vienna 1982: R. Oldenbourg, ISBN 3-486-50442-8 .
• Jutta Franke: Franz, Johann Michael. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 217 ( digitized version ).
• Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt. 76 (1983), Eichstätt 1984, p. 84 (note 343).
• Angela Müller: The oil paintings of Johann Michael Franz, court painter to Eichstätt (1715-1793). Master's thesis at the University of Eichstätt, 1988.
• Alexander Rauch: JM Franz. In: STADT EICHSTÄTT Volume 9 of the series Monument Topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, ed. from the State Office for Monument Preservation, Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1989, 216 pp.
• Franz, Johann Michael. In: Hans-Michael Körner (ed.) And Bruno Jahn (collaboration): Large Bavarian Encyclopedia. Volume 1 KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11460-5 , p. 558.
• Hermann Bauer, Frank Büttner, Bernhard Rupprecht: Corpus of the baroque ceiling painting. Bavaria, Eichstätt district. Volume 13. Hirmer, Munich 2008.

Web links

Commons : Johann Michael Franz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files