Joseph Keller (painter)

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Choir fresco in the church of Thalhofen
Ceiling fresco in the church of Stötten
Klemens Karl von Freyberg and his wife Ignatia Franziska von Pfuhl (detail of the fresco in the nave of the parish church of St. Moritz )
Ceiling fresco in the church of Wald
Ceiling fresco in the parish church of St. Nikolaus in Pfronten
High altar sheet in Rieden am Forggensee

Joseph Keller (baptized March 6, 1740 in Pfronten -Kappel, † January 4, 1823 in Pfronten-Ried) was a German painter .

Life

Joseph Keller was the second son of seven children of Narcissus and Anna Keller, nee. Wind, baptized in Pfronten-Kappel in the Allgäu . Oral tradition says that Joseph Keller's artistic talent was discovered by the sculptor Peter Heel , the builder of the Pfrontner parish church tower. Keller then learned oil and fresco painting from Balthasar Riepp in Vils . The Vilser Joseph Kögl reported about it in 1830 with the anecdote that Keller found his teacher Riepp "often sunk at the altar in very pious contemplation, in which nobody was allowed to disturb him".

Joseph Keller's first signed work from 1764 is a ceiling painting in the bay room of the abbot's summer prelature of the Benedictine monastery of St. Mang in Füssen . In January 1767, Keller enrolled in the copper engraving class at the Academy in Vienna . In 1772 Keller painted next to Josef Anton Zoller and Franz Josef Haller one of the ceiling paintings of the parish church St. Georg in Neustift in the Stubai Valley . The motif of the choir fresco was a Last Supper .

His sons Alois and Anton Keller also embarked on an artistic career. One of his grandchildren was the painter Karl Keller .

Works

Wall and ceiling pictures

  • 1756-68; Nesselwang , pilgrimage church Maria Trost: fresco in the nave
  • 1764; Füssen, former Benedictine monastery St. Mang: Oil ceiling painting in the bay window of the southern corner room in the north wing
  • 1774; Füssen, Augsburger Tor (Kuglertor): coat of arms of the prince-bishop and city saint
  • 1775; Zell , parish church St. Moritz : ceiling fresco in the nave and choir
  • 1780/81; Pfronten -Berg, parish church St. Nikolaus : ceiling fresco in the nave and choir
  • 1781-83; Stötten am Auerberg , parish church St. Peter and Paul : frescoes in the nave, gallery
  • 1782; Forest , parish church of St. Nicholas, fresco in the nave and choir
  • 1783; Speiden , pilgrimage church Maria Hilf, nave fresco, choir fresco
  • 1785; Lucerne ( Switzerland ), council and court room in the town hall: west and south walls
  • 1785; Cham (Switzerland), parish church St. Jakob: frescoes in the nave and the transepts
  • 1785; Sarmenstorf (Switzerland), parish church: fresco in the choir vault
  • around / before 1785; Oberägeri (Switzerland), parish church St. Peter and Paul: fresco (attributed; church demolished in 1905)
  • around 1785/90; Fischingen (Switzerland), monastery church: choir ceiling fresco (incorrectly attributed to JA Messmer) and four medallion images in the stitch caps.
  • 1790; Gommiswald (Switzerland), parish church St. Jakobus d. Ä .: ceiling painting (destroyed)
  • 1791/92; Grän (Tyrol), parish church of St. Wendelin : Ceiling paintings in the nave
  • 1792; Rustenschwil (Switzerland), St. Joseph Chapel: ceiling paintings
  • 1793; Menzingen (Switzerland), parish church of St. John the Baptist: frescoes
  • 1797-1799; Kalksburg (Austria), parish church of St. Peter in chains: dome fresco
  • 1790–1807, Beckenried (Switzerland), St. Heinrich parish church: ceiling painting
  • around 1801, Kalksburg ( Austria ), parish church Kalksburg: ceiling frescoes
  • 1803; Thalhofen ad Wertach, parish church St. Michael: ceiling frescoes
  • 1804; Tannheim (Tyrol) , parish church of St. Nicholas : monumental nave fresco
  • 1812; Wittenbach (Switzerland), St. Ulrich parish church: ceiling paintings
  • 1819; Trauchgau , parish church St. Andreas: ceiling frescoes

Oil painting

  • 1774; Heiterwang (Tyrol), Parish Church of the Assumption : high altar sheet
  • 1780; Pfronten-Berg, parish church St. Nikolaus: high altar sheet
  • 1780; Meggen (Switzerland), St. Gallus and Magdalena Church: high altar sheet
  • 1783; Füssen, St. Stephan monastery church: Stations of the Cross (formerly Speiden)
  • around 1783; Rieden am Forggensee , high altar sheet "The incredulous Thomas".
  • around 1785/90; Fischingen (Switzerland), monastery church: Extract paintings of the two choir side altars in oval format.
  • 1787; Fristingen , parish church St. Blasius: side altar sheet
  • 1797-1799; Kalksburg (Austria), parish church of St. Peter in chains: side altar paintings
  • 1802; Tannheim (Tyrol), parish church of St. Nicholas: Stations of the Cross
  • 1803; Thalhofen ad Wertach, parish church St. Michael: Choir altar leaves (?)
  • 1806; Pfronten-Berg, St. Nikolaus parish church: side altar leaves on the left
  • 1819/20; Trauchgau, parish church St. Andreas: altar leaves

literature

  • Eva-Maria Seitz: Joseph Keller (1740-1823) with catalog raisonné , in: Andreas Tacke (ed.): Autumn of the Baroque: Studies on Style Change , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin, 1998, page 369-429, ISBN 3-422 -06229-7 .
  • Klaus Wankmiller: Joseph Keller in Trauchgau - The old work of the Pfrontener painter was created 200 years ago, in: Around the Falkenstein - Mitteilungsblatt des Heimatverein Pfronten und Umgebung - Volume 6, Issue 5 (July 2020), pp. 120–128.

Web links

Commons : Joseph Keller  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Tacke (ed.): Autumn of the Baroque. The Keller family. Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-06229-7 , passim
  2. ↑ Wankmiller (2020), pp. 123–125.
  3. ↑ Wankmiller (2020), pp. 125–127.
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 6, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfronten -Kappel
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1823
Place of death Pfronten -Ried