Joseph Mörl

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Franz Joseph Mörl (* 1671 ; † 1735 in Munich ) was a German engraver and publisher .

Life

Mörl lived and worked as a copper engraver and secretary in Munich. He engraved devotional pictures, motifs from the field of architecture and portraits , such as that of Emperor Charles VII on horseback based on a model by George Desmarées , with whom Mörl was friends, or the copper engraving from Freising Cathedral .

Franz Xaver Jungwirth was one of the students in his last years . The painter Cosmas Damian Asam was his son-in-law, who married Mörl's 19-year-old daughter Maria Anna on February 8, 1717 . According to the epitaph at the Frauenkirche in Munich , although he died in 1735, he was not buried until April 25, 1737.

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  1. Martin Miersch: The image of the Electeur Soleil. Rococo ruler's iconography using the example of the Cologne Elector and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Clemens August, 1700-1761. Sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order, Volume 65, Verlag NG Elwert, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7708-1305-6 , pp. 79 and 256 (restricted view, books.google.de ).
  2. Old Bavarian monthly. Volume 10, Historischer Verein von Oberbayern, Verlag Lentner, p. 105 (restricted view, books.google.de ).
  3. Hans Christian Egger: The parish and abbey church of St. Georg in Weltenburg and its building history. Dissertation, University of Vienna, 2010, p. 43.
    In older literature Mörl is erroneously referred to as Cosmas Damian Asam's brother-in-law .
  4. Cornelia Baumann: The epitaphs at the Frauenkirche in Munich. Reports on the preservation of monuments, Volume 1, Messerschmitt Foundation, Prestel-Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-7913-0769-X , p. 220 (restricted view, books.google.de ).