Bergmüller Johann Georg ( German: Johann Georg Bergmüller ; April 15, 1688 , Turkheim - March 30, 1762 , Augsburg ) - German Baroque artist , one of the largest fresco masters of the XVIII century .
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| Date of Birth | April 15, 1688 |
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| Date of death | March 30, 1762 (73 years old) |
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| Genre | baroque |
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Life and work
He began teaching painting in 1702 at the art workshop of Andreas Wolf in Munich , where he studied the Italian style of drawing. He finished his studies in the Netherlands , where he took for himself an example of the canvas of Rubens . In 1713 he returned to Augsburg , where he worked at the Academy, and in 1730 became its director .
During the years of Bergmüller's leadership of the Academy, Augsburg in Germany turns, like Vienna in Austria , into a center for the development of Baroque and Rococo painting. The artist begins to paint frescoes, the earliest of which can be seen in the Kurfürst Hospital Church of Düsseldorf ( 1709 ). The next step in the development of his skill is the frescoes in the church of the Abbey of Ochsenhausen ( 1727 - 1729 ). However, the artist rightly considered the work of his life 1736 frescoes in the Augustinian monastery in Dyssen (Ammersee). His style is academic, classic, especially reflected in cold and bright colors . He also worked on altar art (The Savior's Decision 1748, St. Ursula’s Church, Landsberg (Lech).) Many of Bergmüller’s works were reproduced in graphic series made from copper engravings, such as scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary from the Polheim chapel in Augsburg.
Bergmüller was also engaged in pedagogy and the theory of art, as evidenced by his work “ On the Geometric Relations of Building Columns from a Doric Style Square ” published in 1753, with 22 of his engravings as illustrations .
Authorship
- Bergmüller Johann Georg: Anthropometria , Augsburg 1723
- The authorship of some of his paintings (side altars) due to restoration work in the Schutzengelkirche of the city of Eichstet is called into question. [1] .
Literature
- Die Welt der Malerei, Köln 1990
- A. Prater, H. Bauer: Malerei des Barock, Köln 1997 .
Notes
- ↑ See the trailer from the first German ARD film: Restaurator J. Gens aus München on restoration work on three paintings from the Schutzengelkirche of Eichstet.