Matthias Ruef

Ceiling fresco of the Coronation of the Virgin , Kirchbichl parish church (1784)

Matthias Ruef (* 1745 in Volders ; † 1822 ) was an Austrian baroque painter .

He was a student of Martin Knollers and worked as his assistant on the frescoes in the Abbey Church in Neresheim and the Karlskirche in Volders. In 1779 he independently created the artistically and iconographically significant wall and ceiling frescoes in the Wiesing parish church and in 1784 the ceiling frescoes in the Kirchbichl parish church .

literature

Heinrich Hammer : The development of the baroque ceiling painting in Tyrol. (= Studies on German Art History Issue 159). JH Ed. Heitz, Strasbourg 1912, p. 379 ( digitized version ).
Josef Ringler : Ruef, Mathias . 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. 167 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Parish Church of St. Martin and St. Nikolaus in Wiesing , Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2018.
↑ Drexel, Wiesauer: parish church hll. Martin and Nikolaus. In: Tyrolean art register . Accessed January 30, 2019 .
↑ Drexel, Wiesauer: Parish Church of Our Lady of the Assumption. In: Tyrolean art register . Accessed January 30, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ruef, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ruef, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1745
PLACE OF BIRTH	Volders
DATE OF DEATH	1822

[1] Parish Church of St. Martin and St. Nikolaus in Wiesing , Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2018.

[2] Drexel, Wiesauer: parish church hll. Martin and Nikolaus. In: Tyrolean art register . Accessed January 30, 2019 .

[3] Drexel, Wiesauer: Parish Church of Our Lady of the Assumption. In: Tyrolean art register . Accessed January 30, 2019 .