Martin Anton Seltenhorn

Martin Anton Seltenhorn (born November 11, 1741 in Kraiburg am Inn , † May 4, 1809 ) was a Bavarian church painter .

Life

Seltenhorn was the eldest son of the church painter Josef Anton Seltenhorn (January 10, 1713–1792), who came from Pfaffenhausen an der Mindel near Mindelheim , had been active in Kraiburg am Inn since 1740, had acquired citizenship here and ran a masonry workshop. A younger brother of his father was the painter Johann Martin Seltenhorn (1727–1768). Her father Joseph Seltenhorn was already active as a church painter. Seltenhorn continued this tradition by also turning to the art of painting.

On February 20, 1759, Seltenhorn's marriage in Burghausen is documented.

In 1770 he also became a citizen of Kraiburg. Among other things, he had been commissioned with the new version of the high altar sheet of the Church of St. Erasmus since 1763 and made several paintings there, which were later painted over. From 1777 to 1778 he created the ceiling painting in the choir of the monastery church of the Assumption of Mary in Gars am Inn , which depicts the glorification of the Eucharist across the four continents .

literature

Seltenhorn (Anton). In: Felix Joseph Lipowsky (Ed.): Baierisches Künstler-Lexikon. Volume 2: From P. to Z. EA Fleischmann, Munich 1810, p. 106 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Seltenhorn, Martin Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 482 .
Manfred Fischer: The Seltenhorn: a Kraiburg church painting dynasty . Kulturkreis Kraiburg eV, Waldkraiburg 2004, OCLC 164990093 .

Individual evidence

↑ St. Martin, Fraham and the church painter Seltenhorn erzbistum-muenchen.de
↑ 250 years of ceiling paintings in St. Erasmus. P. 23 (brochure, waldkraiburg.de ).
^ Marion Romberg: Allegory Of The Continents 16th & 17th Century Renaissance Art . Ed .: North America Aboriginal Society of Canada. tape 3 , 2019, p. 90 and 128 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Seltenhorn, Martin Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian church painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kraiburg am Inn
DATE OF DEATH	May 4, 1809

[1] St. Martin, Fraham and the church painter Seltenhorn erzbistum-muenchen.de

[2] 250 years of ceiling paintings in St. Erasmus. P. 23 (brochure, waldkraiburg.de ).

[3] Marion Romberg: Allegory Of The Continents 16th & 17th Century Renaissance Art . Ed .: North America Aboriginal Society of Canada. tape 3 , 2019, p. 90 and 128 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).