Wenzel Führich

Wenzel Ambros Führich (born August 27, 1768 in Kratzau ; † November 2, 1836 there ) was a Bohemian craftsman and painter .

Life

Führich, master craftsman (country painter and master tailor ) in the small town of Kratzau in Northern Bohemia , made church pictures with saints of the Catholic Church for churches and chapels, votive tablets and signage. He took over the production and design of canopies and church flags, wooden cribs and festive decorations.

His eldest son Joseph, who later became a knight of Führich, grew up in his parents' household in Kratzau, house no. 95, learned the craft of painting from his father, and was his assistant from 1814 to 1818. His first independent work, the altarpiece "Maria im Grünen", since 1868 on a side altar of the St. Laurentius Church in Kratzau, has apparently no longer survived.

The successful participation of the son Joseph Führich in an art exhibition in Prague with the recognition of the director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, Joseph Bergler , led to a scholarship from Christian Christoph Graf Clam-Gallas , owner of the Friedland lordship , Reichenberg , Grafenstein and Lämberg in Northern Bohemia, to which the city of Kratzau belonged. After this success of the son Joseph, the father Wenzel Ambros Führich and his family moved to Prague to be close to the son during his training at the Academy of Fine Arts.

In the summer of 1820, the son Joseph decided to stay in Dresden , an important art metropolis of the time, and his father Wenzel Ambros Führich returned to Kratzau in northern Bohemia.

family

Wenzel Ambros Führich married Johanna Josefa Margarethe Reilich from Kratzau on September 15, 1798 in Kratzau in Northern Bohemia. The ancestors of the Führich family can be traced back to four generations in the Roman Catholic church records of the Kratzau parish. The great-grandfather Christoph Führich, born in 1645 at the end of the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) in Eckersbach near Reichenberg in Northern Bohemia, was a fisherman and musician, later lived in the neighboring Engelsberg and married Maria Seidl in Kratzau on November 26, 1684.

The couple Wenzel Ambros Führich (1768–1836) and his wife Johanna Josefa Margarethe, née Reilich (1778–1855) are the parents of the academic painter Josef von Führich , knight of the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown who was raised to the Austrian knighthood in Vienna on December 15, 1861.

literature

• Sudeten German Family Research Born in 1936, publisher: Franz Josef Umlauft, No. 32 Pedigree of Josef Ritter von Führich, academic painter.
• Genealogical paperback of the knight and noble families, so-called Brno paperback, 18th year 1893, pages 154 and 155. Knight von Führich family line.
• Joseph von Führich's religious art. Furrow art gifts. Seventh publication. Publisher Paul Ferdinand Schmist, Berlin 1920

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Josef Ritter von Führich - life data on . Retrieved on March 31, 2020  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )