Martin Speer (painter)

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Martin Speer (born November 5, 1702 in Wildsteig ; † October 28, 1765 in Regensburg ) was a Regensburg-based painter of the Baroque and Rococo periods.

biography

Speer first attended the convent school in Rottenbuch. From there he was apprenticed to the Rottenbuch painter Mattias Bußjäger in Merano and received support from Provost Patritius Oswald for trips to Böhme, England, France, Italy and Austria. He received his artistic training at the Academy in Vienna and in Naples from Francesco Solimena , a representative of Neapolitan Baroque painting. The focus of his work was in Regensburg, the Upper Palatinate, Lower and Upper Bavaria. In 1737 he and Johann Zeiler were awarded prizes for portraits that showed a depiction of Dalila "how she cuts Samsonen's hair". This picture is considered lost. Some of his portraits ended up in the collection of the historical association in Regensburg. He also made a portrait of Senator Christian Theophil Dimpfel, which was engraved in copper by Johann Jacob Haid . Johann Zoffany learned the painting trade from him in Regensburg. According to the information on the grave slab, he is said to have died at the age of 63.

Works

Martyrdom of St. Sebastian in the Metten monastery church
  • Bad Kohlgrub : High altar picture with coat donation from Saint Martin (1729)
  • Garmisch : High altar picture in the parish church with donation of the coat of Saint Martin (1734)
  • Evangelical Neupfarrkirche in Regensburg: Painting with the wonderful feeding of Elijah and Lamentation of Christ (mid-18th century)
  • Mallersdorf Monastery : large altarpiece of the main altar with John at the vision reception on Patmos (1749), side altarpieces with the Annunciation, Guardian Angel and the death of St. Benedict (1750)
  • Obertraubling : Altar sheet Saint Martin in the church of Piesenkofen (1751)
  • Gebelkofen : Wall and ceiling paintings in Castle Martin Speer attributed
  • Maihingen Monastery : Painting of the monastery church with an extensive Marian program of ceiling frescos. The fresco in the 2nd yoke from the west was designated by Speer: Von Regensburg Martinus Speer invenit et pinxit anno 1752 . In the nativity scene above the organ gallery, Martin Speer portrayed himself as St. Joseph.
  • Frauenzell Monastery : Ceiling fresco with pilgrims depicting the miraculous image of Frauenzell in the entrance hall of the monastery church (1752)
  • St. Michael (Michaelsbuch) : Altar sheet with Sebastian martyrdom (1754) commissioned by the Metten Monastery
  • Metten Monastery : pictures of four side altars of the monastery church with crucifixion, keys given to Petrus, Sankt Stephan and Sankt Sebastian (1745); Ceiling fresco with the beginning of the Last Judgment in the cloister's ballroom (1755); on the south side of the fresco a self-portrait of the painter on the shield of a squire who carries a spear with an M below the tip as a symbol of the name
  • Sankt Emmeram Monastery in Regensburg : large paintings in the west transept of the basilica with the healing of the lame man and the awakening of Tabita (donated in 1756 for the Regensburg Cathedral; transferred here during the purification of the cathedral in the 19th century)
  • Himmelberg Castle (summer house of Metten Monastery): frescoes with the beheading of St. Paul and scenes from the Acts of the Apostles (1757); Altarpiece with the Damascus vision of Paul (1756)
  • Scheuer (Mintraching) : Wall and ceiling frescoes of the pilgrimage church with homage to the continents in front of the Mother of God in the choir, Esther in front of Artaxerxes and other Old Testament models of the intercession of the Mother of God in the nave (1760/61)
  • Heilbrünnl pilgrimage church in Roding : painting of St. Pankratius (1764) on the right nave wall and originally the altarpiece of the parish church of St. Pankratius in Roding
  • Maria-Schnee Chapel in Regensburg: Wall and ceiling paintings with allegories of the virtues and music-making King David Martin Speer attributed (but since they were executed shortly before his death and Speer was already ill, they could also be executed by a student according to the master's designs be)
  • Sulzbürg : side altarpiece with St. Francis in the parish church of Mater Dolorosa
  • Raitenhaslach monastery : painting with the Annunciation and the birth of Christ in the monastery church supposedly by Martin Speer

literature

Web links

Commons : Martin Speer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dorothea Bleier: The origin of the baroque painter Martin Speer - and the biography of his grandson Jakob. In: Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. 139, 1999, pp. 67-98 {26. August 2016, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 355-rbh-2447-2 ( heimatforschung-regensburg.de PDF; 5 MB).
  2. ^ Theodor von Frimmel: Small gallery studies . tape 1 , 4th delivery: history of the Vienna painting collections . Georg Heinrich Meyer, Leipzig 1901, p. 5 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Speer, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speer, Johann Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter from the Baroque and Rococo periods
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Wildsteig
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1765
Place of death regensburg