Josef Anton Hafner
Josef Anton Hafner (born August 15, 1709 in Türkheim ; † 1756 ibid) was a German painter from Turkheim in Upper Swabia .
Life
He was the son of a tailor and probably completed his training with the painter Johann Georg Bergmüller in Augsburg, also from Türkheim . The earliest work attributed to Josef Anton Hafner is an altarpiece depicting St. George in Lindenberg in the Allgäu . In 1732 he was paid for several jobs in the church of St. Magnus in Unterrammingen , including the lost high altar painting with St. Magnus. A year later he carried out repair work there. For the All Souls Brotherhood in his home town of Türkheim, he delivered a flag painted on both sides. This oil-on-canvas work shows purgatory on one side. The flag was used for funerals until the 20th century. Ruf also attributed two oval ceiling paintings in the St. Peter and Paul Chapel in Unterirsingen, executed after 1733 . He created the paintings for two large-format processional flags of the Corporis Christ Brotherhood in Türkheim in 1734, and two years later he painted the skulls for a flag of the All Souls Brotherhood of the town. In 1736 he painted coats of arms and shields in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Türkheim. He also redrafted the figure of Christ on the Holy Sepulcher. The first known, more extensive work of Josef Anton Hafner was written in 1740. It is the complex biblical and hagiographic program in the Klosterbeuren monastery church . Below is the picture of the Adoration of the Magi on the south side, labeled Joseph A. Hafner in Türkheim . Then he received further orders with similar cycles. In the Lake Constance area he is said to have been involved in several larger ceiling paintings in churches in 1745. A painter from Türkheim was commissioned in 1743 for the parish church of St. Jakob in Pfullendorf . According to Ruf, this could also have been Hafner. A year later he painted the new holy grave in St. Benno in Türkheim. In the same year, he painted the lost altarpiece of the high altar in the parish church in Türkheim. There , in 1748, he captured the figures of the new nativity scene created by Ignaz Hillenbrand . His greatest work is a high altar painting in the Heilig Geist parish church in Unterapfeldorf . It shows Mary as the Queen of the Rosary and is signed by him and dated 1755. Josef Anton Hafner probably also painted several times for private individuals, but this has not yet been archived. He died of consumption in 1756 .
As a well-trained painter, he had a sure instinct for luminous coloring and dynamic gestures of the figures. His larger compositions, however, have volatility in structure and execution that do not relate to employees or assistants. With his paintings, Josef Anton Hafner belongs to the second guard of Swabian baroque painters.
Works
- St. Johann Baptist in Königshausen , middle ceiling fresco in the choir, 1752, remaining ceiling paintings in the nave
- St. Johann Baptist in Oberzell , painting of the interior, commissioned in 1749, signed and dated 1750
- Gutshof of the Reichsstift Weissenau , painting of the great hall 1753
- Painful Mother of God Church in Oberzell , ceiling painting after 1750
- St. Peter and Paul in Weißenau , painting of the interior, signed and dated 1743 (ceiling frescoes of the central nave by Karl Stauder )
- St. Peter and Paul in Sarnen , Switzerland, interior painting, signed and dated 1741
- Klosterbeuren monastery , church painting with frescoes 1740
- Holy Spirit Church in Unterapfeldorf , high altar painting Maria with the Rosary 1755
literature
- Sabine Russ, Matthias Kunze: Dreer (Dreher; Dreyer), Gabriel. In: General Artist Lexicon. = Artists of the World. AKL online. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2004ff., ISBN 978-3-598-41800-6 , Doc-ID: 00078444.
- Hermann Haisch (Ed.): Landkreis Unterallgäu . Memminger Zeitung Verlagsdruckerei GmbH, Memmingen 1987, ISBN 3-9800649-2-1 , p. 820 .
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SURNAME | Hafner, Josef Anton |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter from Turkheim in Upper Swabia |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1709 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Türkheim |
DATE OF DEATH | 1756 |
Place of death | Türkheim |