Joseph Ignaz Schilling

Jesuit College Dillingen, ceiling fresco in the stairwell: Ignatius von Loyola

Joseph Ignaz Schilling (born August 8, 1702 in Villingen , † April 2, 1773 in Munich ) was a German painter and theater painter .

Joseph Ignaz Schilling learned the painting trade from his father Johann Heinrich Schilling (1657–1751). In 1726 he became a student of the painter Johann Georg Sang in Munich , whose daughter Maria Katharina Eleonora he married in 1730. In 1730 he was also awarded the title of master in Munich, and in 1749 he became a court theater painter. His sons Balthasar Ignaz and Felix Nepomuk (1742–1808) also worked as painters.

Schilling worked as a painter in all of southern Germany, but above all in Munich and the surrounding area.

Works (selection)

• 1730: Frescoes in the Catholic parish church and former Augustinian canons' church of St. Johann Baptist in Beyharting (based on a design by Johann Baptist Zimmermann )
• 1732: St. Michael in Munich, two altarpieces
• 1737/38: St. Johann Baptist in Taufkirchen , ceiling frescoes
• 1738: Former Dillingen University Library in Dillingen an der Donau , ceiling fresco
• 1738: Jesuit college, Collegium St. Hieronymi in Dillingen an der Donau, ceiling frescoes on the stairwells and the house chapel
• 1738: St. Ulrich in Schenkenzell , main picture of the right side altar
• 1744/46: St. Michael in Berg am Laim ( Munich ), altarpiece of the Norbert altar
• 1751: St. Peter and Jakobus maior in Nendingen , side altars
• 1757: St. Laurentius in Egern , Holy Sepulcher
• ????: Holy Cross in Berbling , excerpt with “Death of St. Benedict "

literature

• Norbert Lieb : Schilling, Ignaz I (Joseph Ign.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 69 .
• Joseph Ignaz Schilling - the painter and designer (1702–1773) . In: Heimatverein Böttingen (ed.): The church building in Böttingen 1743 and its artists . Böttingen 2009, pp. 31–34.
• Christine Schneider: Church and College of the Jesuits in Dillingen on the Danube. Studies on the late baroque image programs "Ut in nomine Iesu omne genu flectat" (= Jesuitica. Sources and studies on the history, art and literature of the Society of Jesus in German-speaking countries, vol. 19). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7954-2731-3 , p. 47ff.