Joseph Ruffini

Isaiah prophesies the birth of Immanuel to Ahaz , Ottobeuren monastery, cloister

Assumption of Mary (1739), Augustinermuseum Rattenberg , attributed to Joseph Ruffini

Joseph Ruffini (* in the 17th century in Meran ; † February 7, 1749 in Augsburg ) was a German painter .

Life

Ruffini first learned painting from his father, whose name was unknown. In 1706 he is said to have created several ceiling paintings in the St. Florian monastery in Upper Austria together with the painter Johann Philipp Ruckerbauer . A portrait of Isis, entitled Allegory of Nature or The Seasons Pay Homage to Mother Nature (in the Yellow Room). In the hunting room of Alexander the Great in Darius ' tent , and in Samson' s green room, the columns break . Then he went to Munich and received court protection there in 1711 .

In 1716 he applied in vain for orders for the Trinity Church in Paura near Lambach . From 1714 to 1719 he made 51 large and around 20 small oval paintings for the convent building in Ottobeuren monastery . For the Joseph altar in the Trinity Church in Munich, he painted a picture of Saint Joseph with the baby Jesus in 1718 . The ceiling painting in the bedroom of the winter abbey in Ottobeuren and two other pictures in Erkheim , which are attested by documents in the Ottobeuren monastery archive, he painted in 1719. Abbot Maximilian Pagl von Lambach paid him 20 guilders on January 2, 1724 for a sketch of the Annunciation. In the women's collegiate church in Munich, the high altar picture with an Anna Selbdritt comes from him. His bas-relief with the Annunciation is in the sacristy of the Lambach Benedictine Abbey .

literature

Georg Kaspar Nagler: Ruffini, Joseph . In: New general KünstlerLexicon or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . tape 14 : Rubens, A. – Santi, Rafael . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1845, p. 13 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Constantin von Wurzbach : Ruffini, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 27th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, p. 245 ( digitized version ).
Otto von Lutterotti : Ruffini, Joseph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 176 .

Web links

Commons : Joseph Ruffini - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Ruffini, Joseph zi.fotothek.org

Individual evidence

↑ Augustinermuseum Rattenberg. Image guide through the collections. Rattenberg 1996, ISBN 3-901162-08-9 , no.99 .

^ August Zöhrer: Johann Philipp Ruckerbauer. The Mühlviertel baroque painter. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . 6th year, issue 4, October – December 1952, pp. 489–508, here pp. 491 and 495–496 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

^ Elisabeth Staehelin: Alma Mater Isis . In: Elisabeth Staehelin, Bertrand Jaeger (Hrsg.): Egypt pictures: files of the “Symposium on Egypt Reception”, Augst near Basel, September 9-11 , 1993 (= Orbis biblicus et orientalis . Volume 150 ). Universitätsverlag, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1997, ISBN 3-7278-1079-3 , ISSN 1015-1850 , p. 103–142, here p. 104 ( books.google.de - reading sample).

personal data
SURNAME	Ruffini, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	painter
DATE OF BIRTH	17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meran
DATE OF DEATH	February 7, 1749
Place of death	augsburg

[1] Augustinermuseum Rattenberg. Image guide through the collections. Rattenberg 1996, ISBN 3-901162-08-9 , no.99 .

[2] August Zöhrer: Johann Philipp Ruckerbauer. The Mühlviertel baroque painter. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . 6th year, issue 4, October – December 1952, pp. 489–508, here pp. 491 and 495–496 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

[3] Elisabeth Staehelin: Alma Mater Isis . In: Elisabeth Staehelin, Bertrand Jaeger (Hrsg.): Egypt pictures: files of the “Symposium on Egypt Reception”, Augst near Basel, September 9-11 , 1993 (= Orbis biblicus et orientalis . Volume 150 ). Universitätsverlag, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1997, ISBN 3-7278-1079-3 , ISSN 1015-1850 , p. 103–142, here p. 104 ( books.google.de - reading sample).