Joseph Peter Bockhorni

The twelve year old Jesus in the temple. Detail of a window of the Chapel of Mercy at the Maria Hilf pilgrimage church in Speiden

Signature in a window of the Mercy Chapel in Speiden

Joseph Peter Bockhorni (derived from Pokorny ; born March 27, 1832 in Munich ; † November 29, 1905 there ) was a German glass painter .

biography

Joseph Peter Bockhorni was the son of a Munich glazier, from whom he learned this craft as an apprentice. He then turned to artistic activity and opened the "Munich Art Institute Josef Bockhorni" as early as 1864. Subsequently, he created numerous colorful and figurative glass paintings for churches and chapels in Munich, Upper and Lower Bavaria and the Bavarian Swabia. They were often made to designs and cardboard boxes by the Munich artists Julius Frank , Josef Zenker , Jakob Bradl and Max Fürst . He made several glass windows for the projects of the Munich architects Johann Marggraff and Joseph Elsner . He received numerous commissions from France, Romania, Austria and Alsace. Archduke Franz Josef awarded Bockhorni the title of court. He was a member of the Munich Association for Christian Art .

Works (selection)

Mary's window in the parish church of the Birth of Mary in Alling

• Alling , Parish Church of the Birth of Mary : window in the choir
• Beilngries , parish church St. Walburga: glass window (together with August Pacher )
• Eggstätt , St. Georg parish church: cycle of stained glass in all windows
• Ellerbach (Holzheim) , parish church of St. Peter and Paul
• Harthausen ( Friedberg ), Ursula Chapel (1914)
• Chamber (Traunstein) , branch church Johannes d. T .: glass painting (1890)
• Nannhofen , Filialkirche St. Peter and Paul: Two glass paintings with the hll. Johann Nepomuk and Florian (1874)
• Pilgrimage church Maria Hilf Speiden : stained glass window (1888)
• Parish Church of St. Nikolaus Oberndorf am Lech : stained glass window (1903)
• Kneippianum, Bad Wörishofen - (1896):
  • Magyarorszag ezer éves fennállásának emlekere / St. Elisabeth prayed for us
  • Hail Mary;
  • St. Ladislaus pray for us.
  • St. Stefan pray for us.

Web links

Commons : Glasmalerei Bockhorni (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Association for Christian Art in Munich (Hrsg.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th. Anniversary . Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, p. 105.
• Dehio Bayern IV - Munich and Upper Bavaria.
• LT: Bockhorni, Joseph Peter . In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , Vol. 12, P. 50.