The Feuchtmayers (also spelled Feuchtmayr, Feichtmair, and Feichtmayr) were a German family of artists from the
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
Wessobrunner School
The Wessobrunner School is the name for a group of Baroque stucco-workers that, beginning at the end of the 17th century, developed in the Benedictine Wessobrunn Abbey in Bavaria, Germany.
The names of more than 600 stucco-workers who emerged f ...
.
The best-known members of the family were the brothers Franz Joseph, Johann Michael (the Elder), and Michael; their sons; and one grandson:
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Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer
Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (9 March 1660 (baptized) – 25 December 1718) was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the Wessobrunner School.
Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn Abbey. A sculptor and stuccoist, he ( ...
(1660–1718)
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Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer
Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer (6 March 1696 (baptized) – 2 January 1770) was an important Rococo stuccoist and sculptor, active in southern Germany and Switzerland.
J. A. Feuchtmayer was born in Linz, a member of the famous Feuchtmayer family ...
(1696–1770)
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Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (17 April 1666 (baptism) – 15 October 1713) was a German painter and copper engraver.
Life and work
He was born in Wessobrunn, into the famous Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with t ...
(1666–1713)
* Michael Feuchtmayer (b. 1667) was a brother of Franz Joseph and Johann Michael, and the father of Franz Xaver, the Elder, as well as of Johann Michael, the Younger.
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Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder
Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (1698–1763) was a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School.
Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn, Bavaria. A member of the famous Feuchtmayer family, he was the son of Michael Feuchtmay ...
(1705–1764)
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Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger
Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (17 October 1735 – 6 January 1803) was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School.
He was the son of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (170 ...
(b. 1735)
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Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Younger (1709–1772)
Bibliography
*''Austria: A Phaidon Cultural Guide''. Oxford: Phaidon, 1985. .
*''Germany: A Phaidon Cultural Guide''. Oxford: Phaidon, 1985. {{ISBN, 0-7148-2354-6.
Swiss Institute for Art Research's SIKART Dictionary and Database
Gallery of Works by Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer
Image:Seitenstetten innen.jpg, Interior of the Parish Church of St. Maria in Seitenstetten
Seitenstetten is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria.
Geography
Seitenstetten lies in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. About 25.84 percent of the municipality is forested.
History
One ''Udalschalk ''or'' Udiskalk'' ...
, Austria, showing the high altar and pulpit sculptures by F. J. Feuchtmayer
Image:Seitenstetten kanzel.jpg, Pulpit in the Parish Church of St. Maria in Seitenstetten
Seitenstetten is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria.
Geography
Seitenstetten lies in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. About 25.84 percent of the municipality is forested.
History
One ''Udalschalk ''or'' Udiskalk'' ...
Gallery of Works by Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer
Image:Birnau Honigschlecker.jpg, Interior view of the Wallfahrtskirche Birnau with "Honigschlecker" putto (center) in Überlingen
Überlingen is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a cent ...
, Germany
Image:Birnau Innenansicht.jpg, Interior view of the Wallfahrtskirche Birnau with the high altar
Image:Überlingen Museum Feuchtmayer Anna.jpg, St. Anna Selbdritt (1750), detail (currently in the Stadtmuseum in Überlingen
Überlingen is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a cent ...
)
Image:Überlingen Museum Feuchtmayer Christophorus.jpg, St. Christopher
Saint Christopher ( el, Ἅγιος Χριστόφορος, ''Ágios Christóphoros'') is venerated by several Christian denominations as a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman emperor Decius (reigned 249–251) or alternatively u ...
(1750) (currently in the Stadtmuseum in Überlingen
Überlingen is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a cent ...
)
Image:Franziskanerkirche Ueberlingen 01.jpg, Interior of the Franziskanerkirche in Überlingen
Überlingen is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a cent ...
, with high altar by J. A. Feuchtmayer
Image:Salem Unteres Tor.jpg, Unteres Tor, erected 1735 after plans by architect Lorenz Rüscher, with stucco decorations by J. A. Feuchtmayer ( Salem, Bodensee, Germany)
Image:Salemer Münster Orgel.jpg, Organ in the Salem Abbey
Salem Abbey (german: Kloster Salem) was a very prominent Cistercian monastery in Salem in the district of Bodensee about ten miles from Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The buildings are now owned by the State of Baden-Württemberg and a ...
Gallery of Works by Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder)
Image:Diessen Stiftskirche 3.jpg, Stucco by F. X. Feuchtmayer and J. M. Feuchtmayer in the Church of St. Maria in Dießen am Ammersee
Dießen am Ammersee (Southern Bavarian: ''Diaßn am Ammasä'') is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany. It is located on the shores of the Ammersee.
Geography
Situated in the Bavarian Alpine Foreland the town stre ...
Image:Diessen Stiftskirche 2.jpg, Interior of Church of St. Maria in Dießen am Ammersee
Image:Diessen Stiftskirche 5.jpg, Choir of Church of St. Maria in Dießen am Ammersee
Image:Vierzehnheiligen-Basilika3-Asio.JPG, Interior of the Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen in Bad Staffelstein
Bad Staffelstein is a small town in the Bavarian Administrative Region of Upper Franconia in Germany. It has around 10,000 inhabitants.
Bad Staffelstein is known for several landmarks, such as the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen designed by B ...
, with stucco work by F. X. Freuchtmayer
Image:Stift-Stams-church-inside.jpg, Interior of the Monastery Church of Mariae Himmelfahrt in Stams
Stams is a municipality in Imst District, in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is chiefly known for Cistercian Stams Abbey (''Stift Stams''), founded in 1273 by Count Meinhard II of Gorizia-Tyrol and his wife.Chizzali. ''Tyrol: Impressions of Tyrol.' ...
Gallery of Works by Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Younger)
J. M. Feuchtmayer also did work with his brother Franz Xaver that is shown above.
Image:Ottobeuren-basilika flickr-2.jpg, Interior of Ottobeuren Abbey
Ottobeuren is a Benedictine abbey, located in Ottobeuren, near Memmingen in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany.
For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the 40-odd self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a vi ...
Image:Ottobeuren-interieur.JPG, Another view of the stucco of Ottobeuren Abbey
Ottobeuren is a Benedictine abbey, located in Ottobeuren, near Memmingen in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany.
For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the 40-odd self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a vi ...
Image:Zwiefalten5.jpeg, Zwiefalten Abbey
Zwiefalten Abbey (german: Kloster Zwiefalten, Abtei Zwiefalten or after 1750, ) is a former Benedictine monastery situated at Zwiefalten near Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
History
The monastery was founded in 1089 at the time of ...
stucco
Image:14HeiligenGnadenaltar.jpg, 1891 drawing showing the stucco on the Gnadenaltar of the Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen in Bad Staffelstein
Bad Staffelstein is a small town in the Bavarian Administrative Region of Upper Franconia in Germany. It has around 10,000 inhabitants.
Bad Staffelstein is known for several landmarks, such as the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen designed by B ...
Gallery of Works by Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Younger)
Image:St-Verena02.JPG, High altar and side altars in the Premonstratensian Monastery Church of St. Maria and St. Verena in Rot an der Rot Abbey
Rot an der Rot Abbey (also referred to as ''Roth'', ''Münchroth'', ''Münchenroth'', ''Mönchroth'' or ''Mönchsroth'') was a Premonstratensian monastery in Rot an der Rot in Upper Swabia, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was the first Premonstrat ...
17th-century German sculptors
18th-century German sculptors
German Baroque sculptors