Josef Heimgartner

Josef Christian Heimgartner (born June 27, 1868 in Fislisbach AG ; † August 7, 1939 in Zurich ) was a Swiss church painter and painting restorer .

Education

Heimgartner completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter with Carl Renner in Altdorf from 1885 to 1888 and studied with Léon-Jean Pétua and Hans Wildermuth at the Technikum Winterthur from 1888 to 1889 . He then studied as a student of Ludwig Schmid-Reutte at the art school in Munich , where he worked for the altar builder Josef Müller and the architect Elsener in the summer months. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1898 and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in 1899/1890 .

Works

Josef Heimgartner lived in Altdorf from 1907 to 1929, then in Zurich. Between 1893 and 1937 he furnished numerous churches all over Switzerland with wall or ceiling paintings, altarpieces or with external facade pictures and internal decorations. He restored church paintings in the cantons of Aargau, Glarus, Graubünden, Lucerne, Nidwalden Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Uri and Zug.

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  Baptism of Christ, fresco by Josef Heimgartner (1920) in the St. Nicholas Church, Altstätten SG

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  Dardin : Parish Church of St. Sebastian. St. Sebastian before Emperor Diocletian.

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literature

• Artist Lexicon of Switzerland - XX. Century. Eduard Plüss, Volume I, Verlag Huber & Co. , Frauenfeld, 1958–1961.
• Swiss artist lexicon. Red. Carl Brun, Volume II, Verlag Huber & Co., Frauenfeld, 1908.
• Biographical Lexicon of Aargau 1803-1957. Aarau, 1958.
• Hans Haselbach in Bündner Monatsblatt 1/2020: The picture of Sebastian in the church of S. Bistaun Dardin (1916) - including Josef Heimgartner's work during World War I in Dardin and Danis , pp. 79–97

Web links

Commons : Josef Heimgartner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography on the website «Kunstbreite»
• Heimgartner, Josef (Joseph) Christian. In: Sikart