Scheubel (artist family)

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The Scheubel family was a family of artists from Bamberg who had been active in Bamberg and the surrounding area for three generations. Its members created numerous paintings, portraits and frescoes in the Rococo style.

Members

Johann Joseph Scheubel I.

Johann Joseph Scheubel I (* around 1655 in Regensburg ; † June 4, 1721 in Bamberg) was a Franconian painter who worked in Bamberg.

Life

According to the entries received in Bamberg, he came from Regensburg. It is quite possible that he only gave his last whereabouts. He married on May 2, 1685 in Bamberg and died there on June 4, 1721. It is proven that he redrafted the pulpit in St. Stephan in 1695. It is unclear whether he or his son of the same name, Johann Joseph Scheubel II, set the altar in the Upper Parish in Bamberg in 1718. He carried out work in the churches of Mürsbach , Memmelsdorf and Alt-St.Martin in Bamberg.

Johann Joseph Scheubel II.

Johann Joseph Scheubel II called the Elder. (* 27 October 1686 in Bamberg , † February 2, 1769 ibid) was a Frankish art painter , court painter and chamber servant .

Life

Johann Joseph Scheubel II. Was born as the son of Johann Joseph Scheubel I from Regensburg on October 27, 1686 in Bamberg.

He was sponsored by Elector Lothar Franz von Schönborn and sent from him to Vienna in 1712 to what would later become the Academy of Fine Arts there . There he studied perspective and geometry as well as civil and military architecture with Peter Strudel († October 4, 1714 in Vienna). In 1714 the Imperial Vice Chancellor Friedrich Karl von Schönborn took him to board and lodging; for him he copied works by various painters. In March 1718 he traveled to Italy to see Antonio Balestra in Venice , then to Bologna and Rome . In 1722 he became elector's valet and court painter in Bamberg. There he acquired the property at Nonnenbrücke 8 . Scheubel was preferred by the court and by the monasteries throughout his life, where he was the leading painter. He also created portraits .

Scheubel died in Bamberg on February 2, 1769. He left his son Johann Joseph Scheubel III., Called the younger, and two daughters: Anna Theresia († January 9, 1791) and Maria Katharina († August 20, 1786), both of whom were portrait painters .

Works

Scheubel worked in princely palaces, including Seehof Palace , the Würzburg Residence (for example for the so-called Second Bishop's Apartment and the Audience Room, which was built from 1733 onwards, for which he was a canvas picture set in the ceiling in 1945, depicting the destruction of a robber baron's castle by Rudolf von Habsburg, created) and in Weißenstein Castle . In Würzburg he was also involved in the rich altar furnishings for the Neumünster .

Works by him can be found in Arnstein , Ebensfeld , Hallstadt , Höchstadt an der Aisch , Kirchenbirkig , Ludwag , Marienweiher , Neunkirchen am Brand and Pottenstein as well as in Unterleiterbach . One of his most famous works is The Martyr's Death of St. Kilian (around 1738) in the Church of St. Kilian in Hallstadt. The altarpiece "Saint Anne with Maria and Joachim" for the baroque Neumann basilica in Münsterschwarzach (monastery church) has been lost since the secularization.

Johann Joseph Scheubel III.

Johann Joseph Scheubel III., Called the Younger , (born June 12, 1733 in Bamberg, † April 9, 1801 ibid), was, like his father, a Franconian painter , valet and court painter; as a painter, he can be assigned to the Rococo.

Life

Scheubel was born as the son of the valet and court painter Johann Joseph Scheubel the Elder on June 12, 1733 in his home in Bamberg, today's address Nonnenbrücke 8 . He was a student of his father and the portrait painter George Desmarées .

He received a scholarship from Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim and came to France and Italy , especially to Venice . On June 30, 1766 he was appointed valet and court painter.

As court painter (since 1766) of Seinsheim (1759–1779) between 1757 and 1779 he worked on the splendid decoration of Seehof Castle (1686–1697), the summer residence of the Bamberg prince-bishops in Memmelsdorf near Bamberg , which was adapted to the tastes of the time and involved in furnishing other prince-bishop's residences such as Bamberg , Würzburg and Veitshöchheim . Among other things, he created ceiling frescoes in Seehof Castle .

In the years 1776–1778 he was again in France and is said to have painted the four main virtues in fresco in the town house in Paris.

Works

Scheubel painted the life-size portrait of Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim in the Residenz zu Würzburg as well as the portraits of the Bamberg auxiliary bishops Nitschke and Behr . He also painted the cathedral provost Karl Dietrich von Guttenberg , the brother of the rector of the upper parish Johann Sebastian Schramm , the Franciscan Gabriel Schramm. Gabriel was also the brother of the Benedictine Jakob Andreas Schramm . Depictions of the suffering of Jesus von Scheubel can be found in the Holy Sepulcher Chapel of the Church of St. Michael in Bamberg. The altar leaves in the St. George's Chapel on the Senftenberg near Gunzendorf , in Weismain in the parish church of St. Martin and in Scheßlitz in the St. Elisabeth hospital chapel are by him. In the Ebrach monastery he created the altarpiece, Rest on the Flight . He created his works in French mannered taste . Little is known about his work today.

literature

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. 658–660.