Egid Quirin Asam (1 September 1692 – 29 April 1750) was a

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, architect, and painter. He was active during the Late Baroque and

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periods. Born in

Tegernsee Tegernsee is a town in the Miesbach district of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the shore of Lake Tegernsee, which is 747 m (2,451 ft) above sea level. A spa town, it is surrounded by an alpine landscape of Upper Bavaria, and has an ...

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, Asam worked mainly together with his brother, the architect and painter

Cosmas Damian Asam Cosmas Damian Asam (29 September 1686 – 10 May 1739) was a German painter and architect during the late Baroque period. Born in Benediktbeuern, he lived in Rome from 1711 to 1713 to study at the Accademia di San Luca with Carlo Maratt ...

. Because of this, their common work is often attributed to the Asam Brothers. Asam died in

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Biography

Egid Quirin Asam was born on September 1, 1692, in Tegernsee, Bavaria. He was baptized on September 1, 1692.Hitchcock (1968), p. 232. His father was Hans Georg Asam (1649–1741) and his mother was Maria Theresia Asam. Two of his siblings were

and Maria Salome Asam.

Major works

The Asam Brothers, singularly and together, were very prolific artists. Some of their major works were:

Bavaria

Aldersbach Aldersbach ( bar, label=Central Bavarian, Oidaschbo) is a municipality in the district of Passau in Bavaria in Germany. The former Cistercian Aldersbach Abbey, of which the Baroque church remains, is located in the village. There is also a brewe ...

— Monastery Church of Mariae Himmelfahrt ( stucco of swirling garlands and capitals and pillars in the Italian Baroque tradition) *

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— Church of St. Benedikt (silver reliquary of St. Anastasia) *

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—Dom St. Maria and St. Korbinian (

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paintings and stucco) (1723–1724) *

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—Pilgrimage Church of Maria-Hilf (frescoes) * Fürstenfeldbruck— Monastery Church of the Ascension of the Blessed Virgin (side altars and high altar) *

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— Franciscan Monastery Church of St. Anna im Lehel (altars) *

— Catholic Church of St. Johann Nepomuk (Asam Church) (built and decorated entirely by the Asam Brothers) (1733–1746) *

— Parish Church of St. Peter (furnishings) *

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—Papal Basilica of St. Margaretha (stucco and high altar) * Regensburg— Benedictine Monastery Church of St. Emmeram (stucco) * Rohr—Monastery Church of Assumption (high altar) (ca. 1717) *

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—Parish Church of St. Peter (high altar) * Straubing—Urselinenkirche (architect) * Weltenburg— Monastery Church of St. George and St. Martin (stucco, high altar, side altars) (1716–1724)

Baden-Württemberg

*Mannheim—Jesuit Church of St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier (ceiling and dome paintings, now destroyed) *

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—Johann Nepomuk Chapel in Basilica St. Martin (decorations) (1733–1734)

Austria

* Innsbruck—

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(Dom zu St. Jakob) (rococo stucco) (1722–1723)

References

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