Konrad Huber (painter, 1752)

Konrad Huber: The Last Supper, ceiling painting of the Catholic parish church St. Martin, Breitenbrunn , 1797

Konrad Huber (also Conrad Huber ; born November 24, 1752 in Altdorf near Weingarten , † May 17, 1830 in Weissenhorn ) was a German painter who mainly worked in Swabia .

Life

In 1768 Huber joined Franz Martin Kuen's painting school in Weißenhorn and became his successor there. After Kuen's death, Huber went to Stuttgart to begin studying at the academy . There he got to know the formal language of classicism and dealt with the ideals of antiquity and baroque painting . From then on, Huber dealt with painting in church and public buildings in the Swabian region. Due to the high quality of his work in the Roggenburg library in 1781 and in the churches of Schießen and Ingstetten, Huber was called to Würzburg . There he was commissioned in 1789 to paint the church of St. Stephen . In 1815 he painted the crucifixion of Christ in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Lauterstein-Weißenstein .

Works (selection)

• Altars and frescoes in the Church of St. Johannes Baptist in Betlinshausen , including the imposing fresco in the nave of Herod's Supper
• 1785: Choir fresco prophecy of Simeon in the church of St. Maria Immaculata in Anhofen
• 1811: Main altarpiece in the parish church Ettringen ( Last Supper )

literature

• Max Spindler : History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century . CH Beck Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-406-39452-3 , p. 804 .
• Norbert Lieb:  Huber, Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 697 ( digitized version ).
• Wolfgang Ott (Ed.): Konrad Huber (1752-1830) . Verlag des Heimat- und Museumsverein Weißenhorn 1908 e. V., Weißenhorn 2002, ISBN 3-928891-05-7 .
• Heribert Hummel: Lauterstein. Churches and chapels . Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1992, p. 40 .

Web links

Commons : Konrad Huber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Konrad Huber in the catalog of the German National Library