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Balthasar Riepp (22 November 1703, Kempten - 2 August 1764 in Vils) was a German-Austrian painter, primarily of religious subjects.
@ Alpic.net Community. Streets in Reutte and Biberbach have been named in Riepp's honor. For the 300th anniversary of his birth in 2003, an exhibition called ''Genie im Schatten'' (Genius in the Shadows) toured Kempten, Reutte,
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Balthasar Riepp (22 November 1703, Kempten - 2 August 1764 in Vils) was a German-Austrian painter, primarily of religious subjects.
Life
Riepp's father was a servant at the Fürstäbtliche Residenz (a monastery complex) in Kempten.Prince-Abbot
A prince-abbot (german: Fürstabt) is a title for a cleric who is a Prince of the Church (like a Prince-bishop), in the sense of an ''ex officio'' temporal lord of a feudal entity, usually a State of the Holy Roman Empire. The territory ruled b ...
helped provide him with a basic education, which included drawing lessons from the court painter
A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the cour ...
. In 1725, after some time as an apprentice to Jacob Carl Stauder
Jacob Carl Stauder (October 1694, Oberwil - 9 February 1756, Lucerne) was a Swiss-German painter in the Baroque style.
Life and work
His father, Franz Carl Stauder (c. 1660-1714), was also a painter and gave him his first lessons. One of his ...
, he took a two-year study trip to Italy, courtesy of a stipend from , the new Prince-abbott.
In 1728, Riepp was offered employment in the highly successful workshop of Paul Zeiller in Reutte. Seven years later, he married Zeiller's daughter, Maria Anna. By that time, he was a sought-after artist with students of his own. In 1738, when Zeiller died, Riepp took over management of his art school.
In 1740, shortly after obtaining his Bürgerrechtes (citizenship) in Reutte, Riepp's only child, Johann Anton Laurentius, died. He began drinking heavily, which led to a separation from his wife and, as his condition worsened, he was accused of offending public morals
Public morality refers to moral and ethical standards enforced in a society, by law or police work or social pressure, and applied to public life, to the content of the media, and to conduct in public places. A famous remark of Mrs Patrick Ca ...
. Soon, he felt it was necessary to leave Reutte. His dependence on alcohol, combined with his generosity toward the needy, slowly reduced him to poverty and homelessness. He died in an emergency shelter
An emergency shelter is a place for people to live temporarily when they cannot live in their previous residence, similar to homeless shelters. The main difference is that an emergency shelter typically specializes in people fleeing a specific ...
in Vils.Biography and Paintings@ Alpic.net Community. Streets in Reutte and Biberbach have been named in Riepp's honor. For the 300th anniversary of his birth in 2003, an exhibition called ''Genie im Schatten'' (Genius in the Shadows) toured Kempten, Reutte,
Breitenwang
Breitenwang is a municipality and village in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Geography
Geographical location
Breitenwang is located in the Reutte basin adjacent to the city on the Plansee and is closely interwoven with ...
and Vils.
References
Further reading
* Josef Mair: ''Der Maler Balthasar Riepp (1703–1764). Hommage zum 300. Geburtsjahr''. Ehrenberg-Verlag, Reutte 2003,External links
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