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 ...

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: *

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) ** Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer (1696–1770) * Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder (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. ** Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder (1705–1764) *** Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger (b. 1735) ** 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.
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Gallery of Works by Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer

Image:Seitenstetten innen.jpg, Interior of the Parish Church of St. Maria in

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, 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

Gallery of Works by Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer

Image:Birnau Honigschlecker.jpg, Interior view of the Wallfahrtskirche Birnau with "Honigschlecker" putto (center) in Überlingen, 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) Image:Überlingen Museum Feuchtmayer Christophorus.jpg, St. Christopher (1750) (currently in the Stadtmuseum in Überlingen) Image:Franziskanerkirche Ueberlingen 01.jpg, Interior of the Franziskanerkirche in Überlingen, 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

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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

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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

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, with stucco work by F. X. Freuchtmayer Image:Stift-Stams-church-inside.jpg, Interior of the Monastery Church of Mariae Himmelfahrt in Stams

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

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Image:Ottobeuren-interieur.JPG, Another view of the stucco of

Image:Zwiefalten5.jpeg, Zwiefalten Abbey stucco Image:14HeiligenGnadenaltar.jpg, 1891 drawing showing the stucco on the Gnadenaltar of the Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen in

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

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17th-century German sculptors 18th-century German sculptors German Baroque sculptors