Oswald Onghers

Oswald Onghers (born October 5, 1628 in Mechelen , † December 24, 1706 in Würzburg ) was a Flemish Baroque painter .

Choir altarpiece Whitsun miracle in the Heilig-Geist-Spitalkirche Eichstätt. On the left, self-portrait of Oswald Onghers (with his son)

life and work

Onghers learned from Jean-Baptiste le Saive the Elder in 1641 . J. There is evidence that he was in Mainz in 1653 and in the same year he painted an altar painting for Bamberg Cathedral depicting the Assumption of Mary. The work is now in the Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Forchheim . In 1660 Onghers came to Würzburg, where he married in 1663 and received the title of electoral court painter. He took on numerous church commissions, he made 17 paintings for the Würzburg Cathedral alone (three of which have been preserved and are kept in the Haug Abbey ). For the Würzburg Cathedral in 1659 he created the altarpieces of the Beheading of John the Baptistand martyrdom of St. Kilian , in 1660 a Christ on the Mount of Olives and in 1662 the image of the Assumption of Mary, burned in 1945 . In addition, Onghers created many portraits and made a name for himself in the field of genre, still life and landscape painting. His works can mainly be found in the churches of the Diocese of Würzburg . In contrast to other works that were privately owned during the firestorm of 1945, numerous drawings from Ongher's estate have been preserved by the Mainfränkisches Museum in Würzburg . Onghers 'figures are influenced by Rubens' pathos, in the early days he was based on the elegance of the artist van Dyck . In 1706 Onghers gave one of his daughters to the Würzburg court sculptor ( statuarius aulicus ) Jakob van der Auwera, who was also from Mechlin , who had been working in Würzburg as a sculptor for the Juliusspital since 1700 .

Works (selection)

Martyrdom of St. Kilian, oil painting, Würzburg Cathedral 1659, now Neumünster in Würzburg

Portrait of Barbara Amling, around 1680, Museum for Franconia (Würzburg)

Portrait of Jakob Amling, around 1680, Museum for Franconia (Würzburg)

• Amorbach Abbey Church

Pictures in the side altars (1662)

• Charterhouse Marienbrück in Astheim

St. Bruno in front of the Mother of God (1723/24), altar sheet in the high altar

• Church of the Assumption in Aub

Assumption of Mary into heaven, altar sheet in the high altar

• St. Martin in Bamberg

Igantius von Loyola with the name of Jesus (1691), altar panel in the choir side chapel

Death of St. Francis Xavier (1691), altar panel in the side chapel

Our Lady (end of the 17th century), altar panel in the choir side chapel

• Bronnbach Monastery

Assumption of Mary (1670), altar sheet in the high altar

Marriage of Mary, altar sheet in the side altar

Bernhardus, altar sheet in the side altar

Stoning of Stephen, altar sheet in the side altar

John the Baptist, altarpiece in the side altar

Depiction of the Passion of Christ, four color panels in the choir stalls

• Assumption of Mary in Buchbrunn

Handing over the rosary to Dominikus and Katharina von Siena (1674), oil painting, originally in the Catholic Johanneskirche Kitzingen

• St. Maria de Rosario , Dimbach

Immaculata, altarpiece

• Parish Church of St. Nikolaus, Eibelstadt

Assassination of St. Kilian, altarpiece

• Heilig-Geist-Spitalkirche Eichstätt

Pentecost miracle, altar sheet in the high altar, ins. "Osw. Onghers pinxit Ao 1701 ", with Onghers' self-portrait

• Eichstätt Cathedral

Martyrdom of St. Barbara, altar sheet of the former Barbara altar of the cathedral, today on the west wall of the former sacristy of the Willibald choir; Attributed to Onghers by Felix Mader (Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Eichstätt, p. 162)

• Augustinian monastery Fährbrück

Assumption of Mary, altar sheet in the high altar

• Parish Church of St. Bartholomew, Gambach

Stations of the Cross

• Parish Church Finding the Cross, Grafenrheinfeld

Recognition of the Holy Cross, altarpiece in the high altar

• Großcomburg Collegiate Church

Pieta altarpiece on the left side altar

• Capuchin monastery in Kitzingen

Assumption of Mary (1679), altar panel in the high altar

Repentant Magdalena

• Augustinian Monastery Church of St. Michael, Münnerstadt

St. Sebastian (1672), altar sheet in the right, small side altar

St. Nicholas of Tolentino (1682), altar sheet in the small left side altar

• St. Martin, Ober-Erlenbach

Altar leaves of the side altars (uncertain)

• St. Bartholomew, Oberspiesheim

Enthroned Maria , altarpiece of the high altar, originally for the monastery church in Ebrach

• Capuchin Church of St. Maria, Ochsenfurt

Altarpieces

• Parish Church of St. Stephan, Randersacker

Altar leaves

• Pilgrimage church Maria im Grünen Tal , Retzbach

Holy Family, picture in the side altar

Beheading of John the Baptist, picture in the side altar

• St. Sebastian , Reupelsdorf

Coronation of Mary, altarpiece

• Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul , Rüdenhausen

Crucifixion, altar sheet

Resurrection, oil painting

Jesus Salvator, evangelist, pulpit

• Parish Church of St. Josef , Schweinfurt - Oberndorf

Maria Immaculata, originally from the St. Afra monastery church, Würzburg

• Parish Church of the Holy Cross , Stadtschwarzach

Adoration of the Magi, altarpiece

• Parish Church of St. Sebastian, Unterspiesheim

Altarpiece

• St. Bartholomäus and St. Georg , Volkach

The beheading of John the Baptist, oil painting

Saint Anthony of Padua, oil painting

• St. Burkard , Wuerzburg

St. Burkard, altar sheet in the high altar

Lamentation of Christ, altarpiece in the side altar

• Haug Abbey , Würzburg

Martyrdom of St. Johannes d. T. , 1659

Martyrdom of St. Kilians and his companions , 1659 (now in Neumünster)

High altar panel depicting the Assumption of Mary from 1694/1695, burned during the bombing raid on Würzburg on March 16, 1945 .

Altar leaves of the Equiline Altar (1705) and the Three Kings Altar (1706), burned in 1945

• St. Kilian's Hospital Church , Würzburg

Altar painting, destroyed in the air raids on March 16, 1945

• Neubaukirche (Würzburg University Church )

Altar panels (around 1703) from the main altar (today in Schlüsselfeld) and two side altars (today in Brunntal near Wenkheim)

• Neumünster (Wuerzburg)

Martyrdom of St. Kilian (1659), originally in the Würzburg Cathedral

• Carmelite Church of St. Joseph and St. Maria Magdalena (Würzburg)

Altar panel, burned in 1945

• Marienkirche in the fortress Marienberg in Würzburg

Altarpiece of the main altar (around 1700), burned in 1945

• Museum for Franconia , Würzburg

Portraits of the botanist and doctor Jakob Amling (1628–1698) and his wife Barbara (around 1680)

• Wurzburg Cathedral

Ecce-homo panel of the dean's altar in the northern transept of the cathedral, 1704 (burned in 1945)

Altar sheet of the provost, around 1704 (burned in 1945)

Works from the Onghers School

• Parish Church of St. Bartholomew, Kist

Peter in repentance or Peter’s repentance (around 1690), painting above the confessional

literature

• Friedrich Ebert: Chistesbrunno - box. 779-1979. Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 1979.
• Eugen Kainz: Oswald Onghers. His life and his works. A contribution to the history of Franconian baroque painting . (= Studies on German Art History; H. 179). Heitz, Strasbourg 1915 (already printed in 1913 as a dissertation under the title Oswald Onghers 1628-1706. An art-historical study )
• Konrad Martin: Church leader parish church St. Bartholomäus Kist. Kist 2006.
• Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt:  Onghers, Oswald . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 359.
• Andreas Tacke:  Onghers, Oswald. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 541 ( digitized version ).
• Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 625–627.

Web links

Commons : Oswald Onghers  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• wuerzburgwiki.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 625–627.
2. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 626 f.
3. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 644 f.
4. ↑ Homepage of the city of Amorbach ( memento of the original from October 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Homepage of the city of Volkach ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Homepage of the city of Aub
7. ↑ the Martinskirche in Bamberg. In: arch INFORM .
8. ^ Karl Treutwein : From Abtswind to Zeilitzheim . P. 48.
9. ^ Homepage of the city of Eibelstadt
10. ↑ Homepage of the Augustinian monastery in Fährbrück ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Homepage of the municipality of Gambach ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Homepage of the Musica Sacra Grafenrheinfeld e. V.
13. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Archives
14. ^ House of Bavarian History, PDF
15. ↑ Kopp, Sebastian, The Augustinian Church in Münnerstadt, Königstein i. Taunus, no year, p. 4
16. ^ Cultural monuments in Hesse
17. ↑ Homepage with sights of Ochsenfurt ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
18. ↑ Homepage about tours on the Main
19. ↑ Homepage of the Diocese of Würzburg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ Evang. Luth. Parish (ed.): The church in Rüdenhausen . P. 2.
21. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia . P. 994.
22. ↑ Homepage of St. Sebastian ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
23. ^ Muth, Hanswernfried: Volkach am Main . P. 22.
24. ^ The Diocese of Würzburg, Alfred Wendehorst, 1962, p. 19ff.
25. ↑ Spessart-online ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
26. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 626 f.
27. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, pp. 646 and 948.
28. ↑ Homepage of the Juliusspital Foundation
29. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 948.
30. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 626.
31. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, pp. 646 and 948.
32. ^ Klaus Bergdolt : Medical in the Mainfränkisches Museum zu Würzburg. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 8, 1990, pp. 41-52, here: p. 46.
33. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 416 f. (Plate 29) and p. 627.
34. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, pp. 646 and 948.
35. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, pp. 646 and 948.
36. ^ Martin: Church leader parish church St. Bartholomäus Kist. 2006, p. 10.
37. ↑ Ebert: Chistesbrunno - Kist. 779-1979. 1979, p. 132.