Johann Michael Rottmayr

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Johann Michael Rottmayr (Herzogenburg Abbey)
St. Benno
Johann Michael Rottmayr: Volcano. Private collection, Lausanne
Fresco decoration of the Melker collegiate church
High altar Abbey Church Michaelbeuern
Ceiling fresco of the Klosterneuburg collegiate church : Assumption of Mary into heaven
Susanna and the two elders , around 1692, Belvedere , Vienna

Johann Michael Rottmayr (baptized December 11, 1654 in Laufen an der Salzach ; † October 25, 1730 in Vienna ) was a Salzburg Baroque painter . Along with Martino Altomonte, he is the first master of this style from Central Europe in today's Austria .

Life

Johann Michael Rottmayr was the son of the organist Friedrich Rottmayr and his wife Margareta Magdalena Zehentner . He probably learned the craft of painting from his mother. In 1675 he moved to Venice , where he became a student of Johann Carl Loth ; under his influence he developed a mixed Venetian-Neapolitan style of painting. In 1688 he returned to his homeland via Passau, where he can be traced back to Salzburg in 1689 and became a prince-bishop's court painter. Among other things, he also worked here for the Counts Althan .

His first marriage was from 1690 to Helene Barbara Reichpekh from Salzburg. In 1696 Rottmayr moved from Salzburg to Vienna, where he worked until his death. In 1704 he received the Rosenbrunn title of nobility . From 1727 he was married to Theresia Josefa Nassner for the second time. After his death, Rottmayr was buried in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.

Honors

In 1894 the Rottmayrgasse in Vienna- Meidling was named after the painter and in 1935 the street of the same name in Salzburg-Süd . The Rottmayrstraße and the Rottmayr-Gymnasium in his birthplace Laufen (Upper Bavaria) on the Salzach are also named after him .

meaning

Johann Michael Rottmayr was the most respected, busiest and probably the most important painter of the early Baroque in Austria today. He was mainly active in Salzburg , Vienna and in Lower Austrian monasteries. Rottmayr was increasingly influenced by Peter Paul Rubens and greatly appreciated by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach . His frescoes are characterized by expressive experience and a clear spatial concept. In his late work the color gamut became lighter and cooler.

Works

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literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Who appears to be running as an organist and painter and z. B. also carried out gilding work in the pilgrimage church in Arnsdorf . Compare: Austrian Art Topography , 10: The monuments of the political district of Salzburg. Vienna 1913, p. 378.
  2. ↑ G. Megerle: J. Austrian Adelslexikon. Vienna 1822, 1824, p. 429 .
  3. ↑ "The altarpiece presents the holy Erhard Bishop of Regensburg, as he baptizes the pagan princess Ottilia." Lorenz Hübner : Das Nonnthal. In: Description of the prince-archbishop's capital and residence city of Salzburg and its areas combined with its oldest history. First volume. Topography. With 2 copper plates. In the publisher of the author ( printed by FX Oberer ), Salzburg 1792, p. 414f.
personal data
SURNAME Rottmayr, Johann Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized December 11, 1656
PLACE OF BIRTH Running on the Salzach
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1730
Place of death Vienna