Nikolaus Prugger

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Nikolaus Prugger (also Prucker, Brucker, Bruckher; * around 1620 in Trudering ; † March 24, 1694 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

The farmer's son owed his rise to a coincidence: as a little boy he was discovered by the Electress Maria Anna in a procession and taken in as a foster son. Elector Maximilian I subsequently enabled him to train as a painter, which he a. a. led to Italy. From 1644 court painter and drawing teacher of the later Elector Ferdinand Maria . He later received a house in Theatinerstrasse as a gift from him, the successor building of which later housed the famous Feldherrnhalle café. Prugger mainly painted portraits of the ruling family, altarpieces and miniature portraits. Long respected, he got into financial difficulties at the end of his life and was soon forgotten after his death.

Works by Prugger can be found today in the Munich Pinakothek , the Bavarian National Museum , Schleissheim Palace , the Residenz and Munich's St. Peter's Church .

The city of Munich named Nikolaus-Prugger-Weg in Trudering after him.

family

He was married twice. His first wife Anna died in 1662 and he had seven daughters with her. His second wife was Maria Rosina , no further information is known about her. About his daughter Maria Theresia (* 1657, † 1719 in Sulzbach), a miniature painter who had married Hans Georg Asam in 1680 , Prugger was the grandfather of the Asam brothers , Anna Maria married the sculptor Franz Ableitner (1652–1728), a son in 1696 by the court sculptor Balthasar Ableithner , Klara married the painter Kaspar Gottfried Stuber (1651–1724) in 1674, the painter Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber was his grandson.

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personal data
SURNAME Prugger, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Trudering
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1694
Place of death Munich