Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (17 October 1735 – 6 January 1803) was a member of the German

Feuchtmayer The Feuchtmayers (also spelled Feuchtmayr, Feichtmair, and Feichtmayr) were a German family of artists from the Baroque Wessobrunner School. The best-known members of the family were the brothers Franz Joseph, Johann Michael (the Elder), and Michae ...

family of Baroque artists associated with the

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 ...

. He was the son of

Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer 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 ...

(the Elder) (1705–1764); the grandson of

Michael Feuchtmayer The Feuchtmayers (also spelled Feuchtmayr, Feichtmair, and Feichtmayr) were a German family of artists from the Baroque Wessobrunner School. The best-known members of the family were the brothers Franz Joseph, Johann Michael (the Elder), and Micha ...

(b. 1667); the great-nephew of

Johann Michael Feuchtmayer Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (sometimes spelled Johann Michael Feuchtmayr or Feichtmayr) (1709 – June 4, 1772) was a German stuccoworker and sculptor of the late Baroque period. He collaborated with the architects Johann Michael Fisc ...

(the Elder) (1666–1713) and

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); and the

first cousin once removed Most generally, in the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a cousin is a type of familial relationship in which two relatives are two or more familial generations away from their most recent common ancestor. Commonly, " ...

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). His most famous works are the

baldacchino A baldachin, or baldaquin (from it, baldacchino), is a canopy of state typically placed over an altar or throne. It had its beginnings as a cloth canopy, but in other cases it is a sturdy, permanent architectural feature, particularly over h ...

over the high altar and some of the side altars of the Premonstratensian Monastery Church of St. Maria and St. Verena in

Rot an der Rot Rot an der Rot () is a town in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The town developed out of Rot an der Rot Abbey. Bilder File:Rot ad Rot, Klosterkirche Sankt Verena (und Maria) Lijst 2 Paragraph 28 foto3 2014-07-28 ...

, constructed in 1777.''Germany: A Phaidon Cultural Guide''. Oxford: Phaidon, 1985. pp. 628, 630. .

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