Josef Ferdinand Fromiller

Gabbrief from Maximilian I to the state estates, Great Hall of Arms in the Klagenfurt country house

Henry IV hands over the government to Maria de Medici

Henry IV receives the portrait of Maria de Medici

Fromiller's signature on one of his last works, 1758 in Klösterle (Innerteuchen)

Josef Ferdinand Fromiller (* 1693 in Oberdrauburg ; † December 9, 1760 in Klagenfurt ) was an important Austrian painter of the Baroque .

Life

Fromiller, who worked for the nobility and clergy from around 1733 and referred to himself as “Mahler's Landscape Histories”, was particularly famous for his main work, his frescoes from around 1740 in the Great Hall of Arms in the Klagenfurt country house . Here is the homage to Emperor Charles VI as a ceiling painting . to see on the north wall the ceremony of the installation of the Duke of Carinthia and on the south wall the handover of the Gabbrief (deed of gift) of the city of Klagenfurt.

Other well-known, monumental frescoes in Carinthia also come from Fromiller, for example in the Ossiach Abbey and in the Klagenfurt Castle Chapel. Numerous altarpieces , portraits , history paintings , still lifes and copper engravings are also part of his work.

Fromiller acquired a house on Benediktinerplatz in Klagenfurt (today No. 8), where he also died. A memorial plaque is attached to the facade. A street in Klagenfurt is named after him.

Works

• Frescoes in the coat of arms hall in the Klagenfurt country house
• Frescoes from Trabuschgen Castle in the municipality of Obervellach
• Altarpieces from Ossiach Abbey
• Frescoes in the castle church “To the precious blood” in Wernberg Castle
• History pictures (based on the "Medici cycle" by Peter Paul Rubens )
• 4 monochrome fresco medallions in the presbytery of the pilgrimage church Maria Elend

Fonts

• Grim instructions for the noble rice and meal art , self-published, Klagenfurt 1744 (a textbook on painting with your own etchings)

literature

• Friedrich W. Leitner: Josef Ferdinand Fromiller. Baroque art in Carinthia. Verlag Landesmuseum Kärnten, Klagenfurt 2005, ISBN 3-900575-29-0 .
• Richard Milesi:  Fromiller, Josef Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 656 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Herfried Thaler: Josef Ferdinand Fromiller. Dissertation. University of Vienna, 1978.

Web links

Commons : Josef Ferdinand Fromiller  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Josef Ferdinand Fromiller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Josef Ferdinand Fromiller in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )