Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer

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"Honey Lover", Birnau

Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer (also: Feichtmair and Feichtmayer ; baptized on March 6, 1696 in Linz ; † January 2, 1770 in Mimmenhausen near Salem ) was an important plasterer and sculptor , altar builder and copperplate engraver of the Rococo , who lived in the area around Lake Constance in southern Germany and was active in Switzerland .

Live and act

Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer comes from the famous family of artists Feuchtmayer that the Wessobrunner school is assigned. His father, Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660–1718) had initially worked in Upper Austrian monasteries , lived in Linz in Austria, then in Schongau in Bavaria and from 1706 settled in Mimmenhausen near Salem, where he worked for the Salem Imperial Abbey . Joseph Anton is mentioned as a sculptor journeyman in Augsburg in 1715 and in Weingarten in 1718 . After his father's death in 1718, he took over the Mimmenhausen workshop. He too became the “house sculptor” of the monastery, which entrusted him with the prospectus of the Liebfrauen organ of the Salem Minster, for example .

"The figures dematerialize to an almost supernatural expression of spiritualized human attitude and religious experience."

- Edgar Bruker on Feuchtmayer's talent :

His materials were stucco, stone, wood, lead. The production of the stucco marble was more expensive than the use of natural marble and was preferred by Feuchtmayer because the color could be freely designed.

Feuchtmayer's main artistic role model was the Northern Italian plasterer Diego Francesco Carlone , from whom he learned the “art of glossy work” around 1721, a stucco technique that creates alabaster-like surfaces and is considered the finisher (north of the Alps). His best-known work today is the honey licker in Birnau, a putto that symbolizes the eloquence of St. Bernard of Clairvaux , who is also referred to by the church as Doctor mellifluus ("honey-flowing teacher").

Commemoration

The Feuchtmayer Museum is now set up in JA Feuchtmayer's former living and workshop rooms in Mimmenhausen . In the asymmetrical church interior of the parish church of Mimmenhausen, newly built in 1969, there are baroque baptismal and crucifixion figures from old churches as well as the gravestones of Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer and Johann Georg Dirr at the entrance .

Works (selection)

High altar of the Meersburg Castle Church , 1741–1743
St. Anna Selbdritt (detail), Ueberlingen City Museum
Madonna, wood carving on a Berlin commemorative stamp from 1967
  • 1720–1724: St. Martin (Weingarten) - stucco work, wooden sculptures for the choir stalls (counts as the first independent work) and crucifix for the sacristy
  • from 1720 (?): Meersburg, New Castle
  • from 1721: Reichsabbey Salem - stucco in the cloister; Choir stalls, confessionals and organ prospectus in the Salem Minster
  • around 1725: Kißlegg , Neues Schloss - eight life-size sibyl figures for the richly stuccoed main staircase
  • 1728–1731: St. Peter monastery in the Black Forest , monastery church - figures for the altar (apostle), nave and facade. Donor figures
  • 1737–1738: Castle chapel of the former Teutonic Order Castle on the Mainau - portal and interior furnishings, angel figures
  • around 1740: "Hovering angel with lute", now in the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. Carving from linden wood, 1.5 m, barrel painting, probably created for the organ prospectus in Salem.
  • around 1740: Bad Wurzach parish church St. Verena - sculptures for the high altar
  • around 1740: Einsiedeln Abbey - stucco work in the dining room and library
  • 1740–1741: Parish church in Merdingen im Breisgau - furnishings
  • 1741–1743: Meersburg, New Castle , chapel of the Prince-Bishops of Constance - altar and interior furnishings
  • from 1743: parish church in Scheer on the Danube
  • 1744–1750: St. Martin in Altheim (near Riedlingen) , stucco work
  • 1746, 1750: Reichlin-Meldeggsche Chapel in Überlingen - figures of the Madonna, mother Anna and Christophorus
  • 1748–1757: Birnau pilgrimage church on Lake Constance - complete furnishings, putti , including the “honey licker”.
  • 1757: Rimpach Castle , stucco ceiling of the hall of mirrors, together with Johann Georg Dirr
  • 1760: Franciscan Church Überlingen - high altar
  • 1761–1768: Collegiate Church of St. Gallen - confessionals, lastly reliefs for the choir stalls with the life of St. Benedict, gable relief
  • 1763–1764: Zeil Castle, Church of the Assumption of Mary - figures of saints for the high altar
  • 1760: Augustinian Canons of Beuron - high altar
  • around 1760: Franciscan Church in Überlingen - high altar, Laurentius statue
  • from 1766: new work in the Salem Abbey Church - figurative alabaster furnishings
  • Furthermore: copper engravings (rococo cartouches and altar designs) in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen and in the Wessenberghaus, Constance.

Feuchtmayer in museums

Exhibitions

  • Städtische Wessenberg-Gemäldegalerie Konstanz (ed.): Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer and the Mimmenhauser Bildner, JG Dirr, FA Dirr, JA Dirr, A. Dirr, L. Gradtwohl, JG Wieland: hand drawings, engravings. (Exhibition catalog, exhibition from July 28 to August 24, 1985, Edgar Bruker editors)

literature

Web links

Commons : Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edgar Bruker: Foreword . In: Städtische Wessenberg-Gemäldegalerie Konstanz (ed.): Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer and the Mimmenhauser Bildner, JG Dirr, FA Dirr, JA Dirr, A. Dirr, L. Gradtwohl, JG Wieland: hand drawings, engravings. (Exhibition catalog, exhibition from July 28 to August 24, 1985, Edgar Bruker editors)
  2. ^ Edgar Bruker: Foreword . In: Städtische Wessenberg-Gemäldegalerie Konstanz (ed.): Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer and the Mimmenhauser Bildner, JG Dirr, FA Dirr, JA Dirr, A. Dirr, L. Gradtwohl, JG Wieland: hand drawings, engravings. (Exhibition catalog, exhibition from July 28 to August 24, 1985, Edgar Bruker editors)
  3. ↑ Städtische Wessenberg-Gemäldegalerie Konstanz (ed.): Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer and the Mimmenhauser Bildner, JG Dirr, FA Dirr, JA Dirr, A. Dirr, L. Gradtwohl, JG Wieland: hand drawings, engravings. (Exhibition catalog, exhibition from July 28 to August 24, 1985, Edgar Bruker editors)
personal data
SURNAME Feuchtmayer, Joseph Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feichtmair, Joseph Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German plasterer and Rococo sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 6, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1770
Place of death Mimmenhausen near Salem (Baden)